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Arayat, officially the Municipality of Arayat (Kapampangan: Balen ning Arayat; Tagalog: Bayan ng Arayat), is a municipality in the province of Pampanga in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 144,875 people.
A hazy Mount Arayat as seen from Mount Samat overlooking Manila Bay. Mount Arayat is an isolated potentially active stratovolcano in the Central Luzon plains. Located within vast agricultural lands of Pampanga, it rises prominently to a height of 1,033 metres (3,389 ft) above sea level.
Apúng Sinukuan is the Kapampangan sun god of war and death who lived on Mount Arayat.During the colonial period, the Spanish rebranded him into Maria Sinukuan, the diwata or mountain goddess associated with Mount Arayat in Pampanga, Philippines, and later became a prominent example of the mountain goddess motif in Philippine mythology; other prominent examples being Maria Makiling of Los ...
Like the neighbouring cities of Angeles and San Fernando and the towns/municipalities of Porac, Bacolor, Santa Rita, Mexico, Magalang and Arayat, this city rarely gets inundated by floods from heavy rains and typhoons because it is situated on an elevated, well-drained part of the Central Luzon plains known as the "Upper Pampanga".
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Santa Catalina de Alexandria Parish Church, also known as Saint Catherine of Alexandria Parish Church or Arayat Church, is Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church in Arayat, Pampanga, Philippines. Since its initial construction during the late 1700s, it has been subjected to major alterations such as addition of decorative ornaments and reliefs ...
Luna, however, was nowhere near Calumpit for he had embarked on a journey to Guagua to punish General Tomás Mascardo, the military commander of Pampanga, for leaving his post to inspect troops in Arayat, Pampanga. He had been supposed to strengthen the defense of the Calumpit–Apalit Line by providing reinforcements in the area when needed. [3]
Overlooking Mount Arayat to the east and the Zambales Mountains to the west, the viaduct is raised over Candaba Swamp and Pampanga River by 20 feet (6.1 m), about the same as the current elevation of Bacolor, also in Pampanga, after lahars that resulted from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo affected the municipality from 1991 to 1995, which ...