Cabanatuan City is a 1st class city in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. It is considered the economic hub of the province. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 222,859 people in 45,424 households. It is a bustling city home to many jeepneys and tricycles. A city (lungsod, sometimes siyudad, in Filipino) is a tier of local government in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Nueva Ecija is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Jeepneys are a popular means of public transportation in the Philippines. ...

Barangays

Cabanatuan City is politically subdivided into 89 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...

History

Cabanatuan was founded as Barrio of Gapan in 1750 and became a Municipality and capital of the La Provincia de Nueva Ecija in 1780. In 1899, Emilio Aguinaldo moved the Capital of the First Philippine Republic from Malolos to Cabanatuan. Cabanatuan is the site of the historical "Plaza Lucero" and the Cabanatuan Cathedral where General Gregorio del Pilar was ambushed on his way to Palanan. Cabanatuan lost the title of capital in 1850 when the capital of Nueva Ecija was moved to San Isidro another historic town. It was only in 1917, when the Administrative code was enacted when Cabanatuan was restored as capital of the Province. However, in 1965, Congress created Palayan City which became the capital eversince. Cabanatuan was declared a Highly Urbanized City in 1998, but was lost to a plebiscite.

During World War II, the occupying Japanese built Cabanatuan Prison Camp where many American soldiers were imprisoned, some of whom were force to endure the infamous "Bataan Death March." In January 1945 elements of the US Army marched far behind enemy lines to rescue the prisoners in what became known as the Raid at Cabanatuan. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... The Bataan Death March was a war crime involving the forcible transfer of prisoners of war, with wide-ranging abuse and high fatalities, by Japanese forces in the Philippines, in 1942, during World War II. History In late 1941, Japan simultaneously invaded several southeast Asian countries, including the Philippines. ... The Great Raid on Cabanatuan in the Philippines on 30 January 1945 by US Army Rangers and Filipino guerrillas resulted in the liberation of more than 500 American prisoners of war (POWs) from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan, was a celebrated, historic achievement involving Allied special warfare operations during...

Cabanatuan was also the epicenter of a massive earthquake at roughly 3 p.m. on July 16, 1990. The earthquake leveled some buildings, including the Philippine Christian College in the midst of class time. At 7.7 on the Richter scale, it killed 1653 people. July 16 is the 197th day (198th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 168 days remaining. ... 1990 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Richter magnitude test scale (or more correctly local magnitude ML scale) assigns a single number to quantify the size of an earthquake. ...

External links

• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information