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Bulacan (province)
Bulacan, officially the Province of Bulacan (; ; ; ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Malolos. Bulacan was established on August 15, 1578, and part of the Metro Luzon Urban Beltway Super Region. This province is a part of the Greater Manila Area. It has 572 barangays in 20 municipalities and four component cities (Baliwag, Malolos the provincial capital, Meycauayan, and San Jose del Monte the largest city). Bulacan is located immediately north of Metro Manila. Bordering Bulacan are the provinces of Pampanga to the west, Nueva Ecija to the north, Aurora and Quezon to the east, and Metro Manila and Rizal to the south. Bulacan also lies on the north-eastern shore of Manila Bay. In the 2020 census, Bulacan had a population of 3,708,890 people, the most populous in Central Luzon and the third most populous in the Philippines, after Cebu and Cavite. Bulacan's most populated city is San Jose del Monte, the most popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulacan Provincial Capitol
The Bulacan Provincial Capitol is the seat of the provincial government of Bulacan in the Philippines. History The Bulacan Provincial Capitol was built in 1930 during the administration of Bulacan Governor José Padilla Sr. on a parcel of land donated by Spanish American Antonio Bautista. The capitol was destroyed during World War II but was rebuilt in June 1950 under the tenure of Governor Fortunato Halili. The building was closed in August 2017 for a major renovation which was completed in 2018 under Governor Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado. Architecture and design The Bulacan Provincial Capitol was designed by Filipino architect Juan Arellano and is an example of Art deco architecture. The capitol's compound is named as the Antonio S. Bautista Provincial Capitol Compound. The 2018 renovation saw the installation of a LED board on top of the capitol's signage and the conversion of its triangular pediment to a parapet A parapet is a barrier that is an upward extension of a wall at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baliwag
Baliwag, officially the City of Baliwag (; , Kapampangan: ''Lakanbalen ning Baliwag/Siudad ning Baliwag,'' also spelled as ''Baliuag''), is a component city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 168,470 people. The name Baliwag, hispanized as ''Baliuag'', is an old Kapampangan word for "untouched." It was founded in 1732 by Augustinian friars and was incorporated by the Spanish Governor-General on May 26, 1733. It was carved out from the town of Quingua (now Plaridel). Through the years of Spanish domination, Baliuag was predominantly agricultural. People had to depend on rice farming for the main source of livelihood. Orchards and ''tumanas'' yielded fruits and vegetables, which were sold in the public market. Commerce and industry also played important contributions to the economy of the people. Buntal hat weaving in Baliwag together with silk weaving popularly known in the world as Thai silk; the manufacturer of ciga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hagonoy, Bulacan
Hagonoy, officially the Municipality of Hagonoy (, Kapampangan: ''Balen ning Hagonoy''), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 133,448 people. History Hagonoy was first mentioned in the history of the Philippines in 1571. Even before the "blood compact" between the Spain's conqueror Miguel Lopez de Legazpi and the Philippines' Datu Sikatuna was made, the place was already known as Hagonoy. The land consists of archipelagic marsh and river tributaries going to the sea, where the first ancestors of this town probably took this way to reach Hagonoy. Hagonoy first appeared in Philippine history when they formed part of the fleet of Tarik Sulayman of Macabebe, Pampanga that met Martin de Goiti at the Battle of Bangkusay in the initial defense of the Lusong against the Spaniards in 1571. Hagonoy began as part of ''Alcaldia de Calumpit'' as its visita together with Apalit. It has huge convent having founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guiguinto, Bulacan
Guiguinto, officially the Municipality of Guiguinto (), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 113,415 people. It is the birthplace of composer Constancio de Guzman, known for writing songs like "''Maalaala Mo Kaya''". It also houses the Immaculate Conception Seminary, a Diocesan Seminary of the Diocese of Malolos located in barangay Tabe. The appellation “Guiguinto” literally translates to “Gold” (''ginto'' for Tagalog, ''gintu'' for Kapampangan) for the early conquistadores came and saw this town on a harvest season when it lushes in golden rice stalks against the sun. History Guiguinto began as a barrio of Bulakan, the former provincial capital of Bulacan. It is said that Spaniards set up an army post in the barrio to serve as a resting place fr forces going to Northern Luzon. In those days, travel throughout Guiguinto was difficult and slow down to cross single file over a narrow bamboo bridg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doña Remedios Trinidad
Doña Remedios Trinidad, officially the Municipality of Doña Remedios Trinidad (), known by its acronym as DRT, is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 28,656 people, making it the least populated municipality in the province. The town was named by Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. after Remedios Trinidad Romualdez, mother of his wife, Imelda Romualdez Marcos, whose family was from Baliuag, Bulacan. History On September 13, 1977, under martial rule, President Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 1196, creating the municipality of Doña Remedios Trinidad as a personal namesake gift to his wife's family. The municipality covers seven barangays: Pulong Sampaloc and Camachile from Angat; Bayabas and Kabayunan from Norzagaray; and Talbac, Camachin and Kalawakan from San Miguel. The town of Doña Remedios Trinidad was formed out of lands culled from neighboring municipalities. Historia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calumpit, Bulacan
Calumpit , officially the Municipality of Calumpit (, Kapampangan: ''Balen ning Calumpit''), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 118,471 people. The name "''Calumpit''" comes from the tree "'' Kalumpít''", a hardwood species similar to ''apalit'' and narra, which grows abundantly in front of the St. John the Baptist Parish Church in the Población-Sucol area. History Precolonial era Calumpit was already an established ''barangay'' under the leadership of Gat Maitim prior to the fall of Tondo in June 1571. Other nearby villages were Gatbuka, Meyto, Meysulao, Pandukot, Malolos, Macabebe, Hagonoy, and Apalit. When Calumpit was Hispanized and established as a political and geographical entity in 1572, they chose what is today Barangay Población as the site of the church and the administrative center of the aforementioned villages, which were annexed to it. Spanish period Upon hearing that Tond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bustos, Bulacan
Bustos, officially the Municipality of Bustos (), is a Municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 77,199 people. The town got its name from Jose Pedro Perez de Bustos, a mining engineer from Villaviciosa, Asturias, Villaviciosa, Asturias, Spain who served as the right-hand of Simón de Anda y Salazar and was appointed ''teniente general alcalde'' (Provincial Governor) of Bulacan. History Bustos was a part of the town of Baliuag as its barrio during the Spanish Period. The town was separated from Baliuag by a tragic incident when around 1860, during a rainy Sunday, a group of natives from Bustos with babies in their arms were on their way to St. Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag for baptismal when they drowned after the ''planceta'' or raft they were riding accidentally capsized while crossing the wild river of Angat River, Angat due to the strong water current. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bulakan, Bulacan
Bulakan, officially the Municipality of Bulakan (), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 81,232 people. Bulakan, which is one of the oldest towns in the Philippines, became the ''encomienda'' or capital of the '' Provincia de la Pampanga'', and later became the first capital of the Province of Bulacan before it was moved to Malolos early during the American occupation. With regard to whether to use the letters "c" or "k" to refer to the municipality of Bulakan, the New Provincial Administrative Code of Bulacan (Ordinance no. C-004) of 2007 states on Chapter 2, Section 15 that the word "Bulakan" stands for the municipality and first capital of the province while "Bulacan" refers to the province itself. Etymology The town got its name is from the Tagalog word ''bulak'', which means ''cotton'' in the English language. It was named ''Bulakan'' due to the abundance of cotton plant growing in the regi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bocaue, Bulacan
Bocaue , officially the Municipality of Bocaue (), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 141,412 people. Among its tourist attractions are a town museum located near the municipality's center and the town's river festival celebrated on the first Sunday of every July. The river festival is in commemoration of the Holy Cross of Wawa, believed to be miraculous by the town's predominantly Roman Catholic population. The town's name comes from the Old Tagalog word "''Bukawe''", which refers to a type of long bamboo ('' Schyzostachyum lima''). History Bocaue was first established by Franciscan missionaries as a barrio and visita of Meycauayan in 1582 and as a town on April 11, 1606, under the advocacy of San Martin de Tours. It was the first town to be granted independence from the old Meycauayan that was then a very large town comprising the present territories of Meycauayan City, Marilao, Santa Maria, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balagtas, Bulacan
Balagtas (), officially the Municipality of Balagtas (), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 77,018 people. The town was formerly known as ''Bigaa''. It was renamed in honor of Filipino poet Francisco Balagtas. History Originally known as Caruya/Caluya as per the historical records regarding the early years of the establishment of Bulacan Province, Caruya was one of the encomiendas of the vast region La Pampanga falls under the Alcalde Mayor of Bulacan. Encomienda de Caruya was Encomienda of the King of Spain which appeared in Miguel de Loarca's Relacion de las Isla Filipinas in 1582 and the Report of Governor-General Luis Pérez Dasmariñas of June 21, 1591, document. The propagation of Catholic instructions in Caruya initially belonged to Bulakan Convent and was directly administered by the Alcalde Mayor of Bulacan, but it was transferred to the Malolos Convent on an uncertain date. Bigaa was one of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angat, Bulacan
Angat , officially the Municipality of Angat (), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 65,617 people. The town got its name after the Tagalog word ''Angat'' (A-ngat) , meaning ''elevated'' or ''a high piece of land''. History Angat was originally a part of the old ''pueblo'' de Quingua (now the municipality of Plaridel). This fact was due most probably to the situation of the Rio de Quingua (Angat River), which directly connects the town of Quingua, a community then located in the center of vast lands, covering plains and mountains alike. Augustinian missionaries built a small ''visita'' (chapel) under the Parochial ministry of Paroquia de Santiago Matamoro de Quingua. In 1683, the ''visita'' of Angat made a Town Church and the whole Angat where established as a new Pueblo. Today, still stands and legible, is the inscription at the façade of her church with a Roman Numeral "MDCCXII" translated to "1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Municipalities Of The Philippines
A municipality is a local government unit (LGU) in the Philippines. It is distinct from ''city'', which is a different category of local government unit. Provinces of the Philippines are divided into cities and municipalities, which in turn, are divided into barangays (formerly barrios). , there are 1,493 municipalities across the country. A municipality is the official term for, and the official local equivalent of, a ''town'', the latter being its archaic term and in all of its literal local translations including Filipino. Both terms are interchangeable. A municipal district is a now-defunct local government unit; previously certain areas were created first as municipal districts before they were converted into municipalities. History The era of the formation of municipalities in the Philippines started during the Spanish rule, in which the colonial government founded hundreds of towns and villages across the archipelago modeled after towns and villages in Spain. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
