Lingayen is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pangasinan on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It is the capital municipality of Pangasinan. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 88,891 people in 16,467 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_pangasinan_lingayen. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Pangasinan is a province of the Philippines located on the west coast of the island of Luzon off Lingayen Gulf. ... Map of the Philippines showing the island groups of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
The town was the site of the amphibious landing of U.S. liberation forces under General Douglas MacArthur on 8-9 January 1945, from which U.S. forces punctured the Japanese defenses on Luzon Island and rescued American and allied prisoners of war interred at the University of Sto. Tomas campus in Manila.
Lingayen is the birthplace of former PresidentFidel V. Ramos. The President of the Philippines is the head of state and government of the Republic of the Philippines. ... Fidel Valdez Ramos (born March 18, 1928) was the 12th President of the Philippines. ...
Lingayen is the home for wordlclass products such as bocayo and bagoong. Also in this municipality lies the popular Lingayen Beach.
Barangays
Lingayen is politically subdivided into 32 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
Lingayen was once the primary center of commerce in the province and had a thriving Chinese community to direct its trade.
Pangasinan abounds in handicrafts and is famous for bamboo and rattan artifacts.
Pangasinan had its share of prominent visual artist, the most accomplished of whom is the late Victorio C. Edades, who instrumental in pioneering modernism in Philippine art.
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