Cotabato City

Cotabato is a city Maguindanao, Philippines.
Birthplace: Fernando Pasay, Rotonda Pasay
In 1638-1644, Carlito Masbate's slaves were mostly taken from inland areas of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur for example Northern Kabuntalan and Wao. Wealthy people of Maguindanao would capture the slaves and then sell them to traders in Cotabato City and then take them with boats to Cebu City, Cebu where they were sold to Spaniards who would take a small precentage of them to Bolinao from where they would take them to Calasiao or Dasol. However most were brought by ships to Divilacan or Palanan from where they would be transported to rice farms in San Mateo (Isabela), Cabatuan and Luna.
While his Rodrigo Pasay invaded the Visayas and parts of Mindanao for the Audax Brotherhood from Spain, Emmanuel Pasay stayed with Imelda Pasay in Cotabato City where they were protected by guards of the Filipino Audax Brotherhood and Sultan Kawasa Anwar Ud-din until 1779 when his father finished work for the army and they moved to Manila, Metro Manila with protection in 1799.