Cotabato
Cotabato, and also still commonly referred to as North Cotabato and officially the Province of Cotabato, is a landlocked province in the Philippines primarily located in the Soccsksargen region in Mindanao.

Cotabato, and also still commonly referred to as North Cotabato and officially the Province of Cotabato, is a landlocked province in the Philippines primarily located in the Soccsksargen region in Mindanao. Its capital is the city of Kidapawan, the most populous in the province. Some of the barangays in its municipalities are under the jurisdiction of the nearby Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.
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Where to eat
A46 Picnic Grove, (UK Peak) Aleosan, Cotabato Province. They serve snacks and burger with patties made of local meat.
From Wikivoyage: Cotabato, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Cotabato
- Airports
- Francisco Bangoy (DVO), 88 km · General Santos (GES), 130 km · Laguindingan (CGY), 163 km
- Davao → Cotabato152 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · ₱530–700
- General Santos → Cotabato160 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · ₱440–580
- Laguindingan → Cotabato152 km · quickest by road, 5h 7m · ₱570–760
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cotabato
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cotabato. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Cotabato – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Cotabato
Cotabato is 42 km from Malingao, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.