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Pampanga
Pampanga, officially the Province of Pampanga (; ; ), is a province in Central Luzon in the Philippines. Lying on the northern shore of Manila Bay, Pampanga is bordered by Tarlac to the north, Nueva Ecija to the northeast, Bulacan to the east, Manila Bay to the central-south, Bataan to the southwest and Zambales to the west. Its capital is the City of San Fernando, the regional center of Central Luzon. Angeles City is the largest LGU, but while geographically within Pampanga, it is classified as a first-class, highly urbanized city and has been governed independently of the province since it received its charter in 1964. The name ''La Pampanga'' was given by the Spaniards, who encountered natives living along the banks (''pampáng'') of the Pampanga River. Its creation in 1571 makes it the first Spanish province on Luzon Island (Cebu in Visayas is older as it was founded by the Spaniards in 1565). The town of Villa de Bacolor in the province briefly served as the Spanish c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
San Fernando, Pampanga
San Fernando, officially the City of San Fernando (; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, component city and capital of the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 354,666 people. The city is named after Ferdinand VI of Spain, King Ferdinand VI of Spain and placed under the patron saint, patronage of Saint Ferdinand III of Castile, Ferdinand III of Castile and León, whose feast is celebrated every May 30. Popularly known as the "Christmas in the Philippines, Christmas Capital of the Philippines", the city holds the annual Giant Lantern Festival every December where large ''parol'' are displayed in competition. CNN has hailed the city as 'Asia's Christmas capital'. It is one of the two provincial capital cities named San Fernando, the other being San Fernando, La Union in Ilocos Region. History The town of San Fernando was founded in 1754 from the towns of Bacolor and Mexico, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kapampangan People
The Kapampangan people (), Pampangueños or Pampangos, are the sixth largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines, numbering about 2,784,526 in 2010. They live mainly in the provinces of Pampanga, Bataan and Tarlac, as well as Bulacan, Nueva Ecija and Zambales. Distribution The province of Pampanga is the traditional homeland of the Kapampangans. Once occupying a vast stretch of land that extended from Tondo to the rest of Central Luzon, huge chunks of territories were carved out of Pampanga so as to create the provinces of Bulacan, Bataan, Nueva Ecija, Aurora and Tarlac.Henson, Mariano A. 1965. ''The Province of Pampanga and Its Towns: A.D. 1300–1965''. 4th ed. revised. Angeles City: By the author. As a result, Kapampangans now populate a region that extends beyond the political boundaries of the small province of Pampanga. In the province of Tarlac, the indigenous population of Tarlac City and the municipalities of Bamban, Capas and Concepcion are Kapampangans, whil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Angeles City
Angeles (), officially the City of Angeles (; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 462,928 people. Angeles is the largest city of Pampanga. While politically independent from the province, it is usually grouped by the Philippine Statistics Authority therewith for statistical purposes. Angeles City is the urban core of Metro Clark, an urban area in Pampanga. This area, also known as Metro Angeles, is considered the industrial and residential heartland of Central Luzon. Metro Clark-Angeles is also identified as a regional center by the national government. History Spanish period In 1796, the ''gobernadorcillo'' or town head of San Fernando, Pampanga, San Fernando, ''Don (honorific), Don'' Ángel Pantaleón de Miranda, and his wife, ''Don (honorific), Doña'' Rosalía de Jesús, along with some followers, staked out a new settlement, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Angeles, Pampanga
Angeles (), officially the City of Angeles (; ), is a highly urbanized city in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 462,928 people. Angeles is the largest city of Pampanga. While politically independent from the province, it is usually grouped by the Philippine Statistics Authority therewith for statistical purposes. Angeles City is the urban core of Metro Clark, an urban area in Pampanga. This area, also known as Metro Angeles, is considered the industrial and residential heartland of Central Luzon. Metro Clark-Angeles is also identified as a regional center by the national government. History Spanish period In 1796, the ''gobernadorcillo'' or town head of San Fernando, '' Don'' Ángel Pantaleón de Miranda, and his wife, '' Doña'' Rosalía de Jesús, along with some followers, staked out a new settlement, which they named ''Culiát'' because of the abundance of vines (''Gnetum indicum'') of that name in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lubao, Pampanga
Lubao, officially the Municipality of Lubao (; ), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 173,502 people. The town is known as the birthplace of Diosdado Macapagal, the List of presidents of the Philippines, 9th President of the Philippines. Etymology The town's name is derived from the indigenous term ''lubo'' which means low or sunken, reflective of the area's muddy and flooded characteristics. Lubao is also known by its Kapampangan language equivalent Baba. According to Spanish records by Fr. Diego Martínez, Lubao was also once called Lubag. History Precolonial era Before the arrival of the Spaniards, Lubao was said to have already been one of the prosperous major settlements in Pampanga and is considered as the oldest settlement in Pampanga and the cradle of Kapampangan civilization. By 1571, Lubao was a heavily fortified settlement cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Mabalacat
Mabalacat, officially Mabalacat City (; ), is a component city in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 293,244 people. Mabalacat is in the urban core of Metro Clark, also known as Metro Angeles, an urban area in Pampanga. This area is considered the industrial and residential heartland of Central Luzon. Metro Clark is also identified as a regional center by the national government. Etymology Mabalacat's name was derived from indigenous Negrito word ''mabalacat'' meaning "forest of balacats", a species of tree that was once prominent in the area. History Prior to 1712, Mabalacat was a barrio (barangay) of Bambang (now Bamban, Tarlac). It became a town in 1792 and was named after the abundant Balacat tree ('' Ziziphus talanai''), a fourth-class timber tree with bark that possesses antimicrobial properties. Once a settlement of an Aeta tribe, the area was a virtual forest of balacat trees. "''Ma-balacat''" in the nativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Candaba
Candaba, officially the Municipality of Candaba (Kapampangan: ''Balen ning Candaba''; ; formerly Candawe), is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 119,497 people. History Geography Candaba is located at the lowest point in the Central Luzon Region. The neighboring municipality of San Miguel (San Miguel de Mayumo) in Bulacan province used to be part of Candaba until San Miguel became a municipality itself. Candaba is bounded by the following: Municipality of Arayat, Pampanga, and Municipality of Cabiao, Nueva Ecija, to the north; Municipality of San Miguel, Bulacan, and Municipality of San Ildefonso, Bulacan, to the east; Municipality of Baliuag, Bulacan, to the south; Municipality of San Luis, Pampanga, and Municipality of Santa Ana, Pampanga, to the west. Candaba is also divided to 3 regions, the Tagalog Region comprising the southern part of Candaba which was a boundary between it and Baliuag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Guagua, Pampanga
Guagua, officially the Municipality of Guagua (; ), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 128,893 people. Etymology ''Wawa'', which means "river mouth" (Kapampangan language, Kapampangan: ''alua'' or ''bukana''), was the earliest recorded form of the town's name according to records dating back to 1590. The town is strategically located along a river which played a vital role in trade and transportation during the History of the Philippines (900–1521), precolonial era. Wawa was already a prosperous settlement when Spanish Empire, Spanish colonists took control of the town in the year 1561, from then on calling it ''Guagua'', which is a Spanish language in the Philippines, Hispanised form of the original name. Indeed, archeological artifacts have been excavated in a nearby town which affirmed the existence of a prehistoric community in Guagua. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Governor Of Pampanga
The governor of Pampanga () is the local chief executive of the Philippine province of Pampanga. List of governors of Pampanga Spanish era Alcaldes Mayores (1812-1886) *José Avilés (1812-1820) *Francisco Paula de los Santos (1821-1824) *Fulgencio Núñez (1821-1824) *Manuel de Olea (1824-1827) *Antonio Chacón y Conde (1827-1831) *Juan Garrido (1831-1836) *Mariano Valero y Soto (1836-1839) *Ángel Viniegra (1839-1840) *Mariano Valero y Soto (1846-1847) *Juan López Cordón (1848-1849) *Manuel Gastero Serrano (1849-1850) *Fernando Cajigas (1850-1852) *José Paez y López (1852-1854) *José Sánchez Guerrero (1854-1855) *Francisco Paula de Rodríguez (1855-1856) *Francisco Hidalgo y Caballero (1856-1860) *José María Barrasa (1860-1862) *Ramón Barrueta (1862-1864) *Mariano de la Cortina y Oñate (1864) *Toribio de Vega (1864-1865) *Juan Muñoz y Álvarez (1865-1866) *José Bolaños (1867) *Francisco Godínez y Esteban (1869-1870) *Francisco Pérez Romero (1870-1871) *Atilano Rom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Apalit
Apalit, officially the Municipality of Apalit (; ), is a municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 117,160 people. The town is famous for its Apung Iru Fluvial Procession, which is listed as one of the most significant water-based intangible cultural heritage of the Philippines where the festival takes place every June 28th–30th; and for its blacksmithing. Etymology The town got its name after a big sturdy tree with the scientific name '' Pterocarpus indicus'' also known as ''Narra'', known by Kapampangan as ''Apalit''. History Apalit received official recognition as a separate town in 1582, while Gonzalo Ronquillo de Penalosa was the country's governor-general at the time. Apalit's town was mostly made up of four encomiendas: Apali (Pale), La Castilla, Cabambangan, and Capalangan. San Juan Nepomuceno was the new name given to the enconmienda "La Castilla" once it had been transformed into a town proper (Poblac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dennis Pineda (politician)
Dennis "Delta" Garcia Pineda (born May 6, 1974) is a Filipino politician, basketball head coach and businessman from the province of Pampanga in the Philippines. He currently serves as the 29th Governor of Pampanga. He was a former Vice Governor of the province in the past years, and he was elected in 2019 as the 29th Governor of the province. Previously, he served as the mayor of Lubao from 2001 until 2010. He is the Vice Governor-elect of Pampanga, having been elected once again in 2025. Early life and education Dennis Pineda was born on May 6, 1974 in Quezon City to Rodolfo "Bong" Pineda, a businessman and alleged "gambling lord", and Lilia Pineda, both of whom are from Lubao, Pampanga. He studied Don Bosco Academy, Pampanga for his secondary education. He also studied Guagua National Colleges with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce, Major in Management and graduated in 1997. Political career Pineda became a Municipal Councilor of Lubao from 1998 to 2001. He served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Imno Ning Kapampangan
"''Imno ning Kapampangan''" (alternatively spelled "''Himno ning Kapampangan''"; Kapampangan for "Hymn of Pampanga"), also known as the Pampanga Hymn, is the official anthem of the province of Pampanga in the Philippines. History A provincial hymn for Pampanga was commissioned by Governor Estelito Mendoza in connection with the signing of Proclamation No. 2226 by President Ferdinand Marcos, which officially made the ''Aldo ning Kapampangan'' (Pampanga Day), the province's foundation day, a non-working holiday. The lyrics to "''Imno ning Kapampangan''" were commissioned by Mendoza in early 1982. With Aristedes "Teddy" Panopio, brother of noted Kapampangan yodeler Fred Panopio, serving as his emissary, Mendoza initially commissioned Jose Gallardo and Vedasto Ocampo for the project. Gallardo was a noted poet who held the honorary title of "''Ari ning Parnaso''" ("King of Parnassus"), bestowed upon the province's premier poet, and Ocampo was the organizer of the ''Ligligan Pamanyulat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
