The name of the municipality of Gitagum can be traced back to the time when the area was still a settlement for non-Christian natives. History says that these natives who got sick at that time called on a quack doctor to help them get well. This doctor treated them with leaves of a plant called the tagum-tagum which abundantly grows in the place. These leaves cured them of the illness and thus they named the town after the miraculous plant.

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Tagum (ANIL INDIGO)

Gitagum is a fifth class municipality in the province of Misamis Oriental, Philippines.