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Laur, Nueva Ecija
Laur, officially the Municipality of Laur (Tagalog: Bayan ng Laur, Ilocano: Ili ti Laur), is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon region of Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 40,185 people.
The town was named after the wife of Revolutionary General Manuel Tinio, Laureana.
Originally, the town was a barrio of the municipality of Bongabon named San Esteban, after its patron saint, Stephen I of Hungary. Migrant settlers in the village were mostly Tagalog and Ilocano from the provinces of the Ilocos Region and Pangasinan, while some were Kapampangan from the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac.
On January 13, 1917, under the American-controlled Insular Government, Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison issued Executive Order No. 98 to separate Laur from Bongabon. It was renamed after Laureana Quijano Tinio, wife of General Manuel Tinio who fought in the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire. He would also have a town honoring him when Laur’s southern neighbour Papaya was renamed "General Tinio".
After President Ferdinand Marcos had imposed nationwide Martial Law in 1972, arrested opposition Senators Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Jose W. Diokno were kept in solitary confinement at Fort Magsaysay in Laur for 30 days in 1973. It is now a museum housing the Armed Forces of the Philippines - Center for Human Rights Dialogue.
Laur is located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains. It is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Palayan, 145 kilometres (90 mi) from Manila, and 117 kilometres (73 mi) from Baler.
Laur is politically subdivided into 17 barangays, as shown below. Each barangay consist of puroks and some have sitios.
Poverty incidence of Laur
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Laur, Nueva Ecija
Laur, officially the Municipality of Laur (Tagalog: Bayan ng Laur, Ilocano: Ili ti Laur), is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon region of Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 40,185 people.
The town was named after the wife of Revolutionary General Manuel Tinio, Laureana.
Originally, the town was a barrio of the municipality of Bongabon named San Esteban, after its patron saint, Stephen I of Hungary. Migrant settlers in the village were mostly Tagalog and Ilocano from the provinces of the Ilocos Region and Pangasinan, while some were Kapampangan from the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac.
On January 13, 1917, under the American-controlled Insular Government, Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison issued Executive Order No. 98 to separate Laur from Bongabon. It was renamed after Laureana Quijano Tinio, wife of General Manuel Tinio who fought in the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire. He would also have a town honoring him when Laur’s southern neighbour Papaya was renamed "General Tinio".
After President Ferdinand Marcos had imposed nationwide Martial Law in 1972, arrested opposition Senators Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Jose W. Diokno were kept in solitary confinement at Fort Magsaysay in Laur for 30 days in 1973. It is now a museum housing the Armed Forces of the Philippines - Center for Human Rights Dialogue.
Laur is located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains. It is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Palayan, 145 kilometres (90 mi) from Manila, and 117 kilometres (73 mi) from Baler.
Laur is politically subdivided into 17 barangays, as shown below. Each barangay consist of puroks and some have sitios.
Poverty incidence of Laur
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