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Bacnotan, officially the Municipality of Bacnotan (Ilocano: Ili ti Bacnotan; Filipino: Bayan ng Bacnotan), is a coastal municipality in the province of La Union, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,388 people.
The town of Bacnotan (also formerly known as Vagnotan or Bagnotan) is said to have been founded in 1583. It was annexed as a visita of Baratao, now San Juan on December 29, 1598. In 1599, the convent of Bacnotan was asked to pay annual rent to the Augustinian Monastery in Manila. Father Juan de Rojas became prior of Bacnotan on May 4, 1599. He ...
Meanwhile, an American operator named the Manila Railroad Company (MRR) Corporation was established in New Jersey that same year. [13] By 1909, the Manila Railroad took control of the system, although Horace L. Higgins still leads as its general manager in the country and the Annual Report was still prepared with British conventions. [13]
The Philippine National Railways used to provide passenger services in two directions from the capital, thus serving various towns and cities north and south of Manila. This list contains stations of both the North Main Line and South Main Line , and the various spur lines from both lines, as well as stations within Metro Manila .
The MacArthur Highway, officially the Manila North Road (MNR or MaNor), is a 685-kilometer (426 mi), two-to-six lane, national primary highway and tertiary highway in Luzon, Philippines, connecting Caloocan in Metro Manila to Aparri in Cagayan at the north. It is the second longest road in the Philippines, after the Pan-Philippine Highway.
Its main autonomous unit is in Bacnotan. It was created by 10th president Ferdinand Marcos by using Presidential Decree 1778 to combine a number of state-run schools in La Union into a single state college in 1981. Like Mariano Marcos State University in Ilocos Norte, it is named for the former president's father, Mariano Marcos.
San Juan is located in the west of the province of La Union, along the Manila North Road, between latitudes 16°39'N and 16°43'N and longitudes 120°9'E and 120°15'E. San Juan is bounded on the north by the municipality of Bacnotan along the Baroro River, and on the east by the municipalities of San Gabriel and Bagulin along the Dasay-Duplas ...
Bacnotan: Bacsayan 754 634 619 575 511 San Juan: Bacsil 719 658 561 535 476 Bacnotan: Bacsil 607 564 559 470 449 San Fernando: Bagbag 1,121 882 1,127 1,022 870 Bauang: Bagutot 210 196 206 187 179 Bacnotan: Bail 2,227 2,185 1,962 1,818 1,694 Santo Tomas: Balaoc 1,373 1,157 1,095 1,095 1,071 Santo Tomas: Balawarte 1,550 1,429 1,207 971 1,172 Agoo ...