Angono

Philippines / Southern Tagalog / Angono /
 town, municipality, third-level administrative division
Municipality: Angono
Province: Rizal
ZIP code: 1930

Angono (pronounced [äŋˈŋo̞no̞] or locally [äːˈŋo̞no̞]), officially the Municipality of Angono (Tagalog: Bayan ng Angono), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Rizal, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 130,494 people. 

It is best known as the "Art Capital of the Philippines", being the hometown of national artist for music Lucio San Pedro and national artist for visual arts Carlos "Botong" Francisco, as well as the site of the Angono Petroglyphs, the oldest known work of art in the Philippines. It is currently campaigning for its inclusion in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as it is a center for visual arts. It is also campaigning for the inclusion of the Angono Petroglyphs (1 of 5 properties of the Petroglyphs and Petrographs of the Philippines UNESCO tentative site) in the World Heritage List.

First created as a pueblo in 1766, Angono was a barrio of its neighboring town Taytay and Binangonan before it was legally proclaimed an independent municipality in 1938 by then President Manuel L. Quezon.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angono,_Rizal
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Coordinates:   14°32'5"N   121°9'55"E

Comments

  • The best place to live with a community so friendly and so relaxed! Peace & order is ensured by good people who abound. Congratulations to the people of Angono, a town blessed with much.
  • well definitely, its been good to be here in angono especially when you live here, you could experience many things that you do not experience in your whole life, lets go and enjoy our delicacies especially the exotic one, the balaw-balaw restaurant, serves it.try and experience this coming november 23, our higantes festival,. in which highlights the Higantes of angono and its people.,lets stroll to this small and humble town, angono keep moving,
  • we are planning to visit blanco musuem, please help us with the direction.I am familiar with SM taytay and MCE resort vicinity.
  • marita, just go inside our town and ask anybody because we all know that "blanco museum" you've been asking for. SM taytay is just 5km away from angono, and from that mall, there were jeepneys which are byaheng angono, .. un lng." bow.. " =) e2 lng msasabi qh, Bloomingdale Subdivision is the very best subd. here in angono, dun p lng s my gitna pamatay n, my tennis court pa, tpos dun s mga bench gbi gbi my nbubuntis, tpos pg umupo k dun s ilalim ng puno mlalaman mo kung bkt k isinilang s mundo, tpos tiffany st. ang pnakamaingay at pnakamsaya, syempre, un ang st. nmin. whahahahah.
  • Well it is a great place to live in! But please care for the the mentally ill person living on national road near the municipal hall
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