Individual farmers with rubber production of 20 hectares and below. Total area as of 2008 is about 100 hectares, with 20 hectares as tappable and productive.

Pigkawayan is a land of beauty and plenty, with its hills and mountains covered with verdant trees, its creeks and rivers abundant with freshwater fish, and its plains and valleys teeming with bountiful harvest

It lies out stretched, bounded on the north by municipalities of Buldon and Parang areaching out to the boundary of Lanao; on the south by Kabuntalan and DInaig; on the west by Sultan Kudarat, all of Maguindanao province and on the east by the municipalities of Alamada, Libungan and Midsayap, all of North Cotabato.

It is the show-window of the Province of North Cotabato, being the first municipality to be reached from Cotabato City passing Sultan Kudarat of Maguindanao Province but the last municipality of the province in coming from Davao City. It is twenty-five kilometers from Cotabato City.

The land Area of the municipality is 42,000 hectares comprising 39 barangand 36 sitios.

How Pigcawayan got its name remains undocumented, however two version had been given by the early settlers which was passed on from one generation to another.

The first version was that, the place now known as Pigcawayan was considered as a battle ground for the Iranons and the Maguindanaoans. Due to this fighting the inhabitants would abandon the place to be occupied by the victors. From this evolved the Muslim word “Pighawaan” which meant an abandoned place.

The second version, refers to an incident when an American School Superintendent visited the place. By coincidence it was also the time when folks were roasting a pig with the use of bamboo pole rotated over live charcoal. The word pig bamboo as said by the superintendent was translated into the local dialect Pigcawayan the present name of the municipality.

As settlers increased in number, the inhabitants under the leadeship of the late Mr. Ruperto Panzo, Sr. who was then the representative of the sitio to the municipal council of Midsayap, agitated for the creation of Pigcawayan into a municipality. With the issuance of Executive Order No. 622, dated September 30, 1953 signed by the late President Elpidio quirino, Pigcawayan was created as an independent political unit. Mr. Ruperto Panzo, Sr. was then appointed as first Municipal Mayor, an inaugural program was held on october 20, and from then  on Pigcawayan’s Foundation Anniversary was every October 20.

After twenty (20) years of existence as a municipality, by virtue of P.D. No. 34, dated November 1973 the Empire Province of Cotabato was divided into three (3) Provinces namely North Cotabato (now Cotabato), Sultan Kudarat, and Maguindanao. Pigcawayan became a component municipality of Cotabato province.

At present the Municipality of Pigcawayan is composed of forty (40) barangays, with forty (43) sitios. Based on the May 2000 NSO Survey of population and households the municipality has a total population of 50,996 with a growth rate of 1.83% the same with 1990-1995 growth rate. Based on the certified and approved map by the LMB – DENR XII, the municipality has a total land area of 34,011 hectares. On classification the municipality is 3^rd class with an income of P 40,448,897.55 for Calendar Year 2000 and this includes the IRA.

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