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Its former name is Montalban, from the town of Montalbán in Aragon, Spain.) Ronda, Cebu (named after the city of Ronda in Malaga, Spain.) Rosales, Pangasinan (Spanish surname. Named after Spanish member of the Real Audiencia Antonio Rosales.) Rosario, Agusan del Sur ("rosary" / from Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Spanish for "Our Lady of the ...
Poverty incidence of Cadiz 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 26.20 2009 27.29 2012 24.65 2015 22.54 2018 24.85 2021 22.86 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority The total annual income of the city for the year under review is P429,389,619. It is derived from the actual collections of local revenues and Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA). The city has a total number of 4,965 business establishments, in ...
The more than 140 cities in the Philippines as of 2022 have taken their names from a variety of languages both indigenous (Austronesian) and foreign (mostly Spanish).The majority of Philippine cities derive their names from the major regional languages where they are spoken including Tagalog (), Cebuano, Ilocano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, Kapampangan and Pangasinense.
It is named after Spain, the country that formerly held the Philippines as a colony for more than 300 years. True to its name, several Spanish names abound on the street. It starts in the east at the Welcome Rotonda near the boundary of Quezon City and Manila and ends in the west with a Y-intersection with Lerma and Nicanor Reyes Streets in Manila.
The present name of the Philippines was bestowed by the Spanish explorer Ruy López de Villalobos [1] [2] or one of his captains Bernardo de la Torre [3] [4] in 1543, during an expedition intended to establish greater Spanish control at the western end of the division of the world established between Spain and Portugal by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza.
This name comes from its main topographic feature, the valley (also called the Monkayo Valley) on which the town of Compostela is located. The town's name in turn may have come from the city of Santiago de Compostela in the Galicia region of Spain, the birthplace of a Spanish friar who visited the valley. [44] Dinagat Islands
Poverty incidence of Isabela 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 29.64 2009 28.90 2012 24.37 2015 17.87 2018 17.08 2021 15.90 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority In terms of income classification, Isabela is rated as first-class province and considered among the richest and most progressive province in the Philippines and the most progressive in Region 02 courtesy of the three key cities strategically ...
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.