Balagtas is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 98 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the

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in 1976. Balagtas is named for the Filipino writer

Francisco Balagtas Francisco Balagtas y de la Cruz (April 2, 1788 – February 20, 1862), commonly known as Francisco Balagtas and also as Francisco Baltasar, was a Filipino Tagalog litterateur and poet during the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is ...

, who lived from 1788 to 1862. Kenkō crater is to the west of Balagtas, and Hitomaro is to the north. To the southeast is Darío. Mariner 10 mosaic 27426-27427

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