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The provincial capitol, designed by Daniel Burnham, was built on April 21, 1917, and was completed in 1918 with a budget of three hundred thousand pesos.Twenty five hectares of land was obtained by the provincial government and the construction was led by the seventh governor of Pangasinan Daniel Maramba; Members Segundo Estaris and Victor Tomelden; Treasurer J.W. Crow; District Engineer Chas ...
Pangasinan, officially the Province of Pangasinan (Pangasinan: Luyag/Probinsia na Pangasinan, [paŋɡasiˈnan]; [3] Ilocano: Probinsia ti Pangasinan; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Pangasinan), is a coastal province in the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region of Luzon. Its capital is Lingayen while San Carlos City is the most populous.
The province of Pangasinan is divided into 44 municipalities, 3 component cities, and 1 independent component city, [1] all of which are organized into six legislative districts. [2] There are a total of 1,364 barangays in the province.
Lingayen, officially the Municipality of Lingayen ([ˌliŋgɐˈjɛn]; Pangasinan: Baley na Lingayen; Ilocano: Ili ti Lingayen; Tagalog: Bayan ng Lingayen), is a municipality and capital of the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 107,728 people. [4]
By April 5, 1580, Pangasinan became an administrative and judicial district of the province, with Lingayen as its capital. However, its territorial boundaries were first delineated in 1611, with the area originating from the Spanish settlement in Manila through Pampanga.
The legislative districts of Pangasinan are the representations of the province of Pangasinan and the independent component city of Dagupan in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province and the city are currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through their first , second , third ...
The district consists of the provincial capital, Lingayen, as well as adjacent municipalities of Aguilar, Basista, Binmaley, Bugallon, Labrador, Mangatarem and Urbiztondo. It is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Mark Cojuangco of the Nationalist People's Coalition (NPC). [4]
The municipality is 207 kilometres (129 mi) north of Manila, 62 kilometres (39 mi) south of San Fernando City, where the regional office of the national government agencies in Region I are located, 68 kilometres (42 mi) east of Lingayen, the provincial capital, and 43 kilometres (27 mi) south of Baguio.