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Bocaue is 27 kilometers (17 mi) north-east of Manila if reached via the MacArthur Highway and is 18 kilometers (11 mi) from Malolos City. It is at the mid-southwestern portion of Bulacan. Its land area is 3,187 hectares or 31.87 km 2 (12.31 sq mi). The town is bounded on the north by the municipality of Balagtas and a portion of the ...
The Bocaue River Festival is an annual celebration held every first Sunday of July in Bocaue in honor of the Holy Cross, the Mahal na Poon ng Krus sa Wawa, established in 1850 in the Bocaue River, a tributary of the Santa Maria River. The festivities involve a decorated pagoda on top of a barge surrounded by small boats accompanying it. A ...
Pagoda river procession, holy mass, novena, entertainment events. The Bocaue Pagoda Festival, also known as the Bocaue River Festival, is an annual religious celebration in Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines. It is best known for its river procession dedicated to the Catholic relic, the Holy Cross of Wawa (Tagalog: Krus sa Wawa).
031401000. IDD : area code. +63 (0)44. Native languages. Tagalog. Website. www.angat.bulacan.ph. Angat, officially the Municipality of Angat (Tagalog: Bayan ng Angat), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 65,617 people.
Santa Maria's existence can be traced as early as the year 1647 when it is still a barrio (village) of Bocaue.The barrio was believed to be established on the same period when the Dominicans founded the vast Hacienda de Lolomboy that extends up to the Angat river on the north, Bocaue river on the west, Marilao river on the south and the Pulo River (Pulong Buhangin) on the east.
Battle of the Bocaue river (March 29, 1899) – American forces were ambushed in midcrossing at the river northwest of the town of Bocaue, Bulacan, taking 29 casualties in ten minutes. [ 38 ] Capture of Malolos (March 31, 1899) – Malolos, northwest of Bocaoe, was taken by American forces unopposed.
Santa Maria River (Philippines) The Santa Maria River (Filipino: Ilog Santa Maria) is a river in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. Stretching for 31 kilometres (19.3 mi), [1] it bisects the municipalities of Santa Maria, Bocaue (in baranggay Lolomboy) [2] and the city of San Jose del Monte. Its major tributaries are the Caypombo River and ...
The earliest archeological evidence human habitation in the Philippines archipelago is the 40,000-year-old Tabon Man of Palawan and the Angono Petroglyphs in Rizal. [1] By 1000 B.C. the inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago had developed into four distinct kinds of peoples: tribal groups who depended on hunter-gathering and were concentrated in forests; warrior societies who practiced ...