Jabonga  ', officially the ' (; ), is a in the province of , . According to the , it has a population of people. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the has a land area of constituting of the total area of Agusan del Norte. Jabonga is bounded by Kitcharao and Surigao del Norte to the north; Butuan Bay to the west; Tubay and Santiago to the south; Surigao del Sur to the east. It is from Butuan City. The topography of the land features plain to rolling and hills. Among the municipalities, Jabonga ranks first in total area and number of farms (464) mostly owned by individuals. It has one of the 36 crop storage facilities of the province. Its major crops are coconut, rice, corn, timber and both fresh and sea-water fish. Jabonga is politically subdivided into 15 barangays. Jabonga traces its origin to a village formerly occupied by Negritoes and a few Christian immigrants led by a Manobo Negrito meztizo Angelecio Montante, also called "Agaras". The village became known as "Celopan", a name derived from the bamboos growing along the bank of the river that were made into smoking pipes. Sometime during the mid-nineteenth century, the increasing number of inhabitants who were joined by Christian immigrants from other places transferred to a new settlement in the present site of Colorado. By this time, The Spanish government was already sending missionaries to all parts of the island and the group that went up the Kalinawan River reached the settlement of Colorado, a name derived from the word "Colorado" meaning colored, because of the white spotted arms of Domingo Mondoy, the brave settler who dared to face the newcomers. Proceeding upstream, the missionaries reached Celopan and seeing a native inside a hut, the floor of which was just one meter above the water, they asked him what the place was called. Thinking that the Spaniards were referring to the hut, he answered "Habongan". Thus, Celopan was renamed "Habongan" which later became "Jabonga". In the , had a population of . The population density was .