Capas (Tarlac)
Capas is a metropolitan area municipality in the province of Tarlac on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. It has 125 852 inhabitants ( census May 1, 2010 ) living in 20 barangays. It belongs to the first class of income communities in the Philippines. Your neighboring municipalities are Tarlac City, San Jose ( Tarlac ) in the north, the east Concepcion, Bamban Botolan in the west and the south. It is located about 18.3 km south of Tarlac City and about 107 km north- west of the Philippine capital of Manila and can be reached from there via the Mc Arthur Highway.
In Barangay O'Donnell Capas National Shrine, the national memorial ( Paggunita Sa Capas ) was inaugurated in 1991 by the then President Corazon Aquino. It is reminiscent of the Bataan death march of American and Filipino soldiers in 1942. Glory of the Dead, a commemorative event will performed each year on April 9.
Barangays
- Aranguren
- Bueno
- Cubcub
- CutCut
- CutCut pangadua ( CutCut 2nd)
- Dolores
- Estrada ( Calingcuan )
- Lawy
- Manga
- Manlapig
- O'Donnell
- Santa Lucia
- Santa Rita
- Santo Domingo
- Santo Domingo Pangadua (Santo Domingo 2nd)
- Santo Rosario
- Talaga
- Maruglu
- Santa Juliana
- Navy
Swell
- The municipality of Capas on tarlacprovince.com
- Information about Capas by the Philippine Bureau of Statistics
Cities: Tarlac City
Communities: Anao | Bamban | Camiling | Capa | Concepcion | Gerona | La Paz | Mayantoc | Moncada | Paniqui | Pura | Ramos | San Clemente | San Jose | San Manuel | Santa Ignacia | Victoria
- Location in the Philippines
- Tarlac ( province )