San Manuel, officially the Municipality of San Manuel ( ilo, Ili ti San Manuel; pag, Baley na San Manuel; tl, Bayan ng San Manuel), is a
municipality
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in the
province
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of
Tarlac
Tarlac, officially the Province of Tarlac ( pam, Lalawigan ning Tarlac; pag, Luyag/Probinsia na Tarlac; ilo, Probinsia ti Tarlac; tgl, Lalawigan ng Tarlac; ), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. It ...
,
Philippines
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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 28,387 people.
The town of San Manuel is a typically rural community located at the northernmost horn of the Province of Tarlac. Ilocano, Kapampangan and Pangasinan are commonly spoken, with Tagalog and English as official languages used for secondary education, business and governance. The municipality is known to have the best corn quality in the country which they celebrate every February during their Mais Festival.
From Manila, the town is accessible via the
MacArthur Highway
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, or via the NLEX (
North Luzon Expressway
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), SCTEX (
Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway) and TPLEX (
Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway
The Tarlac–Pangasinan–La Union Expressway (TPLEX), signed as E1 of the Philippine expressway network and R-8 of the Metro Manila arterial road network, is a controlled-access toll expressway that connects the Central Luzon region with the I ...
); it is the last town of Tarlac before entering the town of
Rosales
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in the province of Pangasinan.
History
When the barrio of San Jose was separated from the town of
Moncada to be proclaimed a sister municipality in 1909, they renamed it “San Manuel” in honor of their benefactor, Don Manuel de Leon.
San Manuel was originally covered with dense forest, lakes and creeks. Wild animals roamed into the wilderness. Settlers from Zambales and Pangasinan and later those from the Ilocos region inhabited into the area to start a new life.
The residents of this barrio then did not know which jurisdiction they belonged. There are four towns surrounding the area namely: Moncada in the south;
Anao and
Cuyapo in the east and
Alcala in the north. Neither of these duly organized municipalities claimed the sprawling area. However, an incident in the barrio helped the people solved the “jurisdiction” problem. A man gathering bees fell from the tree and died. The people immediately reported the incident to the nearby localities but only the Moncada authorities came and investigated the incident. Spurred by the gestures of the people of that town, they joined and submitted themselves under their jurisdiction and finally became an integral part of Moncada.
Geography
The Provinces of
Pangasinan
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and
Nueva Ecija
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border it on the north and east respectively, while on the southern side are the municipalities of Anao and Moncada.
San Manuel is from Manila and is from the provincial capital,
Tarlac City
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.
Barangays
San Manuel is politically subdivided into 15
barangay
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s.
* Colubot
* Lanat
* Legaspi
* Mangandingay
* Matarannoc
* Pacpaco
*
Poblacion
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* Salcedo
* San Agustin
* San Felipe
* San Jacinto
* San Miguel
* San Narciso
* San Vicente
* Santa Maria
Climate
Demographics
In the 2020 census, the population of San Manuel, Tarlac, was 28,387 people, with a density of .
Economy
Notes
References
External links
San Manuel Profile at PhilAtlas.com*
Philippine Standard Geographic Codebr>
Philippine Census Information
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