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A church to house Santo Niño was built on the spot where the image was found by Juan Camus. The church was originally made of bamboo and nipa palm, and is thought to be the oldest in the Philippines. The structure was destroyed several times and was finally rebuilt as a permanent structure using coral stone, which is the present basilica.
Poverty incidence of Gubat 10 20 30 40 2006 31.70 2009 33.62 2012 25.60 2015 30.53 2018 26.38 2021 22.07 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority The main livelihoods of the people, then and now, are agriculture and fishing. Harvest times for rice crops are from April to May, and December. Fishing is year-round. Forestry products are also source of income here. Transportation Bus Terminal in ...
Juan Antonio de Urbiztondo y Eguía (7 January 1803, San Sebastián – 26 April 1857, Madrid) [1] was a Spanish military and the marquis of La Solana. [2] In 1814 he became a knight's page in the Spanish Army , fought against the government of Trienio Liberal , and then became the inspector of the Royalist Volunteers .
The site of Barcelona was originally part of Gubat and Bulusan. The town's name was known as Danlog, taken from the name of a local river. The change of name to Barcelona was recommended by a Spanish official who saw some similarities with Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). On April 16, 1886, it became a pueblo civil.
On April 20, 1799, Bulusan's leaders decided to build two lanchas cañoneras to be commanded by actual gobernadorcillo Don Juan Macsimiano and ex-gobernadorcillo Don Juan Tomas. The town of Bulusan built the most baluartes de piedra (stone watchtowers). The town erected watchtowers, one each in Macabare, Tawog and Layog (now a part of Barcelona ...
Juan B. Escandor (November 14, 1941 - March 31, 1983), [2] also known as Johnny, was a Filipino cancer specialist, radiologist, and later a rural doctor. During the period of Martial Law in the Philippines , Escandor went underground [ 2 ] and joined the New People's Army . [ 3 ]
Mangubat (Spanish: Guerrear); [4] is a Hispanic Filipino surname of Mactan Island origin which means " TO WAGE WAR " [5] [6] [7] in Cebuano language.. It belongs to a noble lineage according to Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent [8] the Cronista Rey de Armas of the Kingdom of Spain, and the last King of Arms appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Justice.
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821.