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Balanga City downtown. Balanga City is primarily a residential-agricultural city, with a rapidly growing commercial sector. It has a total land area of 11,163 hectares (27,580 acres), which comprises 8.13% of the total land area of Bataan. It is located at the eastern part of the province of Bataan and lies in the southwestern part of Central ...
The City of Balanga, the capital of Bataan, is the prime commercial hub in the province and hosting several shopping centers notably SM City Bataan, Vista Mall Bataan, Waltermart Balanga, Capitol Square, Galeria Victoria, Center Plaza Mall, Recar Commercial Complex and Ocampo's Megastore.
The conversion of Balanga into a component city enabled it to receive a larger share of the revenue allotment from the national government, along with numerous other benefits and advantages. Thus it was through this act that Balanga has grown by leaps and bounds economically as a city since then.
The first provincial building was built in 1794, and later damaged by earthquakes in the mid-1800s. The building served as the office of the Bataan revolutionary government from 1898 to 1900, and as a school from 1903 to 1906. [1] The provincial capitol was damaged during the World War II, and later rebuilt in 1950. [2]
Jose Enrique Sandejas Garcia III (born November 12, 1971) [1] is a Filipino politician from Bataan. He is the incumbent governor of Bataan since June 30, 2022. [2] He served as Representative of Bataan's 2nd District from 2016 to 2022. [3] He also served as Mayor of Balanga from 2007 [4] to 2016.
From a marketing campaign launched in 2014 by the city government to promote the city as destination for resorts. [46] Las Piñas: n/a: Metro Manila: Home of the Bamboo Organ The iconic bamboo organ is located inside St. Joseph Parish Church which has a total of 1,031 pipes of which 902 are made of bamboo and the remaining pipes are made of ...
This file is in the public domain in the Philippines, and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of his regularly prescribed official duties; and ...
Bataan's 2nd congressional district is one of the three congressional districts of the Philippines in the province of Bataan. It has been represented in the House of Representatives since 1987. [3] The district consists of the provincial capital Balanga and adjacent eastern Bataan municipalities of Limay, Orion and Pilar.