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Capas, Tarlac

Capas, Tarlac


Land Area: 376.39 km²
ZIP Code: 2315

Capas is a 1st class municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines.

According to the latest census, it has a population of 122,084 people in 18,333 households.

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/
Pasyalan Webpage: www.pasyalan.net/tarlac/capas/

Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capas,_Tarlac
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3/10/2006 fergoson   +3
Dito ang bahay ni pengko natatakpan lang sa dahon nang narra
19 months ago Richard Q.   +1
CAPAS - The land of beatiful people and the land of the great lover.
5 months ago   0
Map Photo from:
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6 days ago marco   0
,,wow galing nman ng site nyo maganda siya
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