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Capas

Philippines / Central Luzon / Santa Juliana /
 town, municipality, third-level administrative division
Municipality of Capas, Province of Tarlac
Land Area: 376.39 km²
ZIP Code: 2315

Capas is a municipality in the landlocked province of Tarlac in the Philippines. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 125,852 people.

The municipality contains the Capas National Shrine which was built and is maintained by the Philippine government as a memorial to the Filipino and American soldiers who died in Camp O'Donnell at the end of the Bataan Death March. This is an important site related to Veterans Day in the Philippines, every April 9, the anniversary of the surrender of the combined US and Philippine forces to the Japanese in 1942.

Capas is politically subdivided into 20 barangays:

-Aranguren
-Bueno
-Cristo Rey
-Cubcub (Poblacion)
-Cutcut 1st
-Cutcut 2nd
-Dolores
-Estrada (Calingcuan)
-Lawy
-Manga
-Manlapig
-Maruglu
-O'Donnell
-Santa Juliana
-Santa Lucia
-Santa Rita
-Santo Domingo 1st
-Santo Domingo 2nd
-Santo Rosario
-Talaga

Website (unofficial): capastarlac.com/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capas,_Tarlac
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   15°20'23"N   120°25'46"E

Comments

  • Richard Q. (guest)
    CAPAS - The land of beatiful people and the land of the great lover.
  • JAT86
    Map Photo from: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Ph_locator_tarlac_capas.png
  • Einer Hanes (guest)
    Nice !
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