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  2. Baler, Aurora - Wikipedia

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    Baler (/ b ɑː ˈ l ɛr /, / b ɒ ˈ l ɛr /, / b ʌ ˈ l ɛər /, bah-LAIR; ), officially the Municipality of Baler (Tagalog: Bayan ng Baler; Ilocano: Ili ti Baler), is a municipality and capital of the province of Aurora, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 43,785 people.

  3. List of provincial name etymologies of the Philippines

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    Aurora. Spanish given name. The province was named in honor of Aurora Quezon, wife of president Manuel Quezon, who in turn was born in the town of Baler, now the province's capital; Aurora Quezon herself was also born in Baler. Aurora itself is the Latin word for "dawn," [12] this is also a Spanish loanword from Latin itself. Basilan

  4. Central Luzon - Wikipedia

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    Quezon was the second President of the Philippines and elected governor of Tayabas in 1906 and congressman of 1st district of Tayabas in 1907 and, along with Aurora, were natives of Baler (now capital of Aurora), formerly one of the towns of Quezon Province. The total separation of Aurora from Quezon & transfer of Aurora to Central Luzon were ...

  5. Aurora (province) - Wikipedia

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    Poverty incidence of Aurora 10 20 30 40 2000 14.16 2003 39.00 2006 30.46 2009 18.19 2012 30.83 2015 33.77 2018 16.39 2021 16.50 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Corn, rice and other major agricultural crops are grown in Aurora, with a total of 13% of the provincial land area used for agriculture. It also has 8,945 hectares (22,100 acres) of rice plantation that averages 24,000 metric ...

  6. Quezon - Wikipedia

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    Philippines: Region: Calabarzon: ... event in the history of the province was the ... 2 latter towns were separated from Baler. [41] Aurora was the name of the ...

  7. San Luis, Aurora - Wikipedia

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    Between 1818 and 1902, the Province of Aurora, then a district of "El Principe", Nueva Ecija, consisted only of Baler and Casiguran.The four other existing municipalities were just mission villages like the San Jose de Casecnan (now Maria Aurora), Dipaculao, Dilasag and Ditale, while what is now the municipality of San Luis was a barrio of Baler adjacent to the old barrios of Real, Bacong ...

  8. List of barangays in Aurora (province) - Wikipedia

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    Baler: Barangay II (Poblacion) 1,874 1,825 1,525 1,473 1,230 Maria Aurora: Barangay II (Poblacion) 763 686 654 625 478 San Luis: Barangay III (Poblacion) 434 449 482 592 657 Baler: Barangay III (Poblacion) 873 851 896 840 803 Maria Aurora: Barangay III (Poblacion) 640 626 587 648 398 San Luis: Barangay IV (Poblacion) 389 423 422 501 517 Baler

  9. Siege of Baler - Wikipedia

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    Filipino revolutionaries laid siege to a fortified church defended by Spanish troops in the town of Baler, Aurora, for 337 days, from 1 July 1898 until 2 June 1899. The war had ended with the Treaty of Paris on 10 December 1898, with Spain's surrender and cession of claims over the Philippines to the United States. Cut off from communications ...