Knowing CONSOLACION

CONSOLACION (colloquially "LACION") is one of the growing first income class municipality in the whole province of Cebu, Philippines. It is about 12.5 kilometers from Cebu City, forming part of the Cebu Metropolitan Area. Consolacion stretches some 15 kilometers from north to south and the width at its widest point approximately 5 kilometers. Consolacion is bounded on the north by the municipality of Liloan, Cebu, on the south by the city of Mandaue, on the east by the Mactan Channel and on the west by the city of Cebu and the municipality of Compostela. 

map of Consolacion, Cebu

The municipality of Consolacion has 21 barangays namely, Cabangahan, Cansaga, Casili, Danglag, Garing, Jugan, Lamac, Lanipga, Nangka, Panas, Panoypoy, Pitogo, Poblacion Occidental, Poblacion Oriental, Polog, Pulpogan, Sacsac, Tayud, Tilhaong, Tolotolo and Tugbongan.

This municipality is said to be a torn-up place back in 1800s. It was then own and governed by the Spanish government. Consolacion was only a barrio and was under the municipality of Mandaue (now Mandaue city). finally in 1920, Consolacion was again made an independent municipality after a petition for its  restoration into separate town, was granted by the governor. So grateful were the townspeople to the Spanish governor that they named their new town after its daughter - Consolacion. And they also chose San Narciso as their patron saint, the namesake of the governor's wife, Narcisa.

Today, Consolacion is a robust residential urban municipality with a vigorous growing economy, providing a job to it's people and a place to live for people employed in the neighboring cities of Mandaue, Lapu-Lapu and Cebu.