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Encyclopedia > Batac City, Ilocos Norte

Batac is the newest city in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines. It was the most populous of the 22 municipalities in Ilocos Norte, with 47,682 people in 9,882 households according to the 2000 census. Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Ilocos Norte is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Batac is the home town of former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos. It is also the birthplace of Gregorio Aglipay, the founder of the Philippine Independent Church (better known as the Aglipayan Church). Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralín Marcos (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. ... Gregorio Labayan Aglipay was born on May 8, 1860 in Batac, Ilocos Norte, an orphan who grew up in the tobacco fields in the last volatile decades of the Spanish occupation of the Philippines. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


Batac is currently well-known being the home of the Mariano Marcos State University (MMSU), a high-degree university that has several branches throughout the province, even in the country.


Barangays

Batac is politically subdivided into 43 barangays, 14 of which constitute the poblacion. A barangay (Tagalog: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy), also known by its former name, the barrio, is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. ... A poblacion, Spanish for population, is the name commonly used for the center of a city or municipality. ...

  • Aglipay (Pob.)
  • Baay
  • Baligat
  • Bungon
  • Baoa East
  • Baoa West
  • Barani (Pob.)
  • Ben-agan (Pob.)
  • Bil-loca
  • Biningan
  • Callaguip (Pob.)
  • Camandingan
  • Camguidan
  • Cangrunaan (Pob.)
  • Capacuan
  • Caunayan (Pob.)
  • Valdez Pob. (Caoayan)
  • Colo
  • Pimentel (Cubol)
  • Dariwdiw
  • Acosta Pob. (Iloilo)
  • Ablan Pob. (Labucao)
  • Lacub (Pob.)
  • Mabaleng
  • Magnuang
  • Maipalig
  • Nagbacalan
  • Naguirangan
  • Ricarte Pob. (Nalasin)
  • Palongpong
  • Palpalicong (Pob.)
  • Parangopong
  • Payao
  • Quiling Norte
  • Quiling Sur
  • Quiom
  • Rayuray
  • San Julian (Pob.)
  • San Mateo
  • San Pedro
  • Suabit (Pob.)
  • Sumader
  • Tabug

External links

  • Official website of the City of Batac
  • Scholars of Annak Ti Batac, Inc.
  • Batac Online

Coordinates: 18°03′N, 120°34′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...



 
 

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