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The name "pulong bato" only started in the 1980s when the popular mayor of
Zamboanga City (Cesar C. Climaco) created the station of the cross in abong-abong beside the mountain of Columbato. It became a very popular place and Christians would congregate and "meet" there during holy week. In Tagalog
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The correct name of the mountain is
Columbato. The name columbato is from the Tagalog words "Kolum"(column) and bato(stone or rock). The chavacanos spelled the word "kolum" as "colum" but kept the "bato" as is.
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the word for meeting is "PULONG". That's when they started referring to the place as "Pulong bato".
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