Angeles, Philippines

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Angeles , officially Angeles City , (Kapampangan: Lakanbalen ning Angeles ), or simply referred to as Angeles City , is a very urban first-class city in Central Luzon, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 411,634 people.

It borders Mabalacat to the north; Mexico to the east; San Fernando to the southeast; Bacolor to the south; and Porac to the southwest and west. Although the city manages itself independently of Pampanga, the city is the commercial and financial center of the province.

Angeles is served by Clark International Airport at Clark Freeport Zone. Being the home of former Clark Air Base (then the largest US military facility outside the continent of the United States), it was significantly influenced by the impact of Mount Pinatubo's eruption in 1991. The economy of Angeles was heavily dependent on the American Base at that time.

In 1993, full cleaning and removal of volcanic ash deposits began and former US bases re-emerged as the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ). The creation of CSEZ has helped offset the loss of income and employment previously generated by the presence of US bases in the city. Currently, Angeles and Clark are forming hubs for Philippine business, industry, aviation and tourism as well as recreation, fitness, entertainment and game centers of Central Luzon.

Angeles was ranked 15th in a survey by MoneySense magazine as one of the "Best Places to Stay in the Philippines" in the March-April 2008 issue.

Angeles is 83 kilometers (52 miles) from Manila and 17 kilometers (11 mi) from the provincial capital, San Fernando.

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Etymology

The name ÃÆ' ngeles comes from the Spanish language of El Pueblo de los ÃÆ' ngeles ("The Town of Angels") in honor of his patron saints, , and the name of its founder, Don ÃÆ' ngel PantaleÃÆ'³n de Miranda.

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History

Spanish period

In 1796, gobernadorcillo or the head of San Fernando, Don ÃÆ' ngel PantaleÃÆ'³n de Miranda, and his wife, DoÃÆ'Â Â ± a RosalÃÆ'a de JesÃÆ'ºs, together with some followers, risking a new settlement, which they named CuliÃÆ'¡t because of the many vines of that name in the area. New settlers cleared forests and cultivated land for rice and sugar farming. Don ÃÆ' ngel built his first house with lightweight materials in the northwest corner of the Sapang Balen intersection and the road leading to the town of Porac. It was then donated to the Catholic Church and became a cemetery called "Campo Santong Matua" (today's Nepomuceno Coliseum site).

On May 12, 1812, the new settlers tried to make Culiat a city of self-government but the monks rejected the move, led by Fray JosÃÆ'Â © Pometa. Ten years later, on February 11, 1822, Don ÃÆ' ngel petitioned for the Culiat township to escape from San Fernando, but was rejected. This was followed by another petition in the same year, jointly signed by Don ÃÆ' ngel, his son-in-law, Mariano Henson, and his last father, Severino Henson. He donated 35 acres for the construction of the first Catholic church, monastery and primary school while DoÃÆ'Â ± a Agustina Henson de Nepomuceno, the nephew who will be the first gobernadorcillo from Angeles in 1830, Don Ciriaco de Miranda, giving land to a new public market. Don ÃÆ' ngel paid the total amount required by law only for the separation of Culiat from San Fernando. There are only 160 taxpayers, but the law requires at least 500 taxpayers.

Located about 10 miles (16 km) north of the capital Pampanga, Culiat became a barrio of San Fernando for 33 years and on December 8, 1829, became a separate municipality. The newly-autonomous city is renamed to "El Pueblo de los ÃÆ' ngeles " in honor of its holy protectors, Holy Angel , and the name of its founder, Don ÃÆ' ngel, coincides with the emergence of new barrios such as Santo Cristo (as or proper city), Cutcut, Pampang and Pulong Anunas. Barrio progressively developed several new industries such as sugar mills and wine distillation. The transition from Angeles from forest to barrio, to town and finally to a city took 168 years and in all that time, he survived grasshopper attacks, wars, epidemics, volcanic eruptions and hurricanes to become one of the fastest risers. cities in this country. When receiving the first official city charter, the city contains about 661 people, 151 homes and an area of ​​38.65 km².

On March 17, 1899, General Emilio Aguinaldo transferred seats from the First Philippine Republic to Angeles. It then became the venue for the first anniversary of Philippine independence, proclaimed a year earlier at Kawit, Cavite. The event included a march, led by the youngest general of the Philippines, Gregorio del Pilar and Manuel Tinio, with General Aguinaldo looking at the process of Pamintuan Residence, which was the Presidential Palace from May to July 1899 (and later was the Central Bank of the Philippine Office in Central Luzon, before his ownership was forwarded to the Philippine National History Commission.However, Aguinaldo's stop was short, because in July of the same year he transferred his government to the province of Tarlac following the occupation of Angeles by American forces.

American Period

On August 10, 1899, US troops began an attack in Angeles that was confident in capturing it within days. However, the Philippine Army defending the city refused to surrender so easily and ferociously fight back and for three months, they fought the Americans in and around the city. It was not until the battle of 5 November 1899 that the city finally fell to America. The Battle of Angeles is considered the longest in the history of the Philippine-American War in Pampanga. This led to the formation of an American camp in Barrio Talimundoc (now Lourdes Sur), located next to the railway station, to establish control over the mainland of Luzon. In January 1900, General Frederick D. Grant organized the first US Civil Government in Angeles by appointing an alcalde or city mayor, who began American rule over Angeles.

In 1902, the US Army studied the relocation of their post from Barrio Talimundoc to the fertile plains of Barrio Sapang Bato, who supposedly had better grass for their horses. A year later, US President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order on September 1, building 7,700 hectares (31 km km) of land in Sapang Bato as Fortress of Stotsenburg (which would later be expanded to 156,204 hectares (632.14 Ã, km ² ) in 1908 as Clark Air Base). It centers on what will be in later years to be Clark Air Base's parade.

America quickly sealed the Holy Rosary Parish Church and turned it into an army hospital, with a choral attic that served as a dental clinic. The convento , now a Holy Family Academy, is a barracks for medical and enlisted men. Sacristy is the only part where AngeleÃÆ'Â ± os can hear the Mass. When America finally emptied the church in 1904 and moved to Fort Stotsenburg, pastor of the Rev. parish. Vicente Lapus enrolled a total of US $ 638 for the destroyed church, church looted goods and property, and rent arrears.

World War II

Hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked the Philippines, targeting the US military presence, as well as the Philippine Army, and taking over the civilian government. During the Japanese occupation of the country, 57,000 Filipino and American war prisoners passed through the city of Angeles. They were forced to join Bataan Death March, going to Camp O'Donnell on Capas, Tarlac. AngeleÃÆ'Â Â ± os show their sympathy by handing over food, milk, boiled eggs, rice cakes, cigarettes, and water. AngeleÃÆ'Â Â ± os followed them to the railway station at Dau railway station in Mabalacat to provide moral and spiritual support, and even assisted the refugees.

War historians consider the bombing of Fort Stotsenburg on December 8, 1941 at 12:30 pm. as one of the most devastating air strikes in World War II, as nearly all American warplanes were damaged on the ground. In thirty minutes, American air power in the Far East was completely destroyed.

On New Year's Eve 1942, the first Japanese troops entered Angeles; they will occupy it until January 1945. During the Japanese invasion, another type of local government was established on January 22, 1942. During the Japanese occupation, Clark Air Base then became a major center for staging Japanese air operations. Japanese aircraft flying out of Clark participated in the Battle of Leyte Bay, considered the greatest naval battle of the Second World War and possibly the largest naval battle in history.

Clark Air Base was recaptured by the Americans in January 1945, after three months of fierce fighting in the Philippines. After three years of atrocities committed by Japanese forces, the city and the rest of the Philippines were finally freed by a joint United States and Philippine Commonwealth forces in 1945. The construction of the general headquarters of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Police was located in Angeles from January 1945 to June 1946, during and after World War II.

Independence and city

After World War II, the Philippines gained independence from the United States on July 4, 1946, but later became tied to neo-colonial relations. The "Treaty of Public Relations" signed on Independence day itself signifies the withdrawal and transfer of American ownership, control and sovereignty over the Philippines, except for the use of their base. This was followed by the Philippine-American Military Base Agreement on March 14, 1947, enabling the United States to maintain territorial integrity and sovereignty over Clark Air Base and Subic Naval Base for the next 44 years. Clark occupies 63,103 hectares and serves as a tactical US air operations installation throughout Southeast Asia that has the capacity to accommodate US military transport aircraft, serving the entire Western Pacific.

Over the years, although Fort Stotsenburg has continued to evolve into what is now known as Clark Air Base, Angeles, despite its proximity to American camps, did not thrive and remained fairly small until the end of World War II. Finally it was inaugurated on January 1, 1964 as a hired city under Republic Act no. 3700 and then entered a period of extraordinary growth that has resulted in its current position as "The Main City of Central Luzon." It was then the idea of ​​Mayor Rafael del Rosario that Angeles became a city. He gained the distinction of being the last city mayor in Angeles. He was assisted in the preparation of the City Chapter by Lawyer Enrique Tayag, the city's leading resident. Congressman Juanita L. Nepomuceno from the first district of Pampanga sponsored a bill in Congress, approved by President Diosdado Macapagal, the ninth president of the Philippines and a native of Pampanga province.

Mount Pinatubo and Angeles eruptions today

On June 15, 1991, Angeles was affected by a powerful eruption near Mount Pinatubo, with more than 60,000 people evacuated from the city. It was the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century and, by far, the largest eruption affecting densely populated areas. Pampanga Province, specifically Clark, is severely affected and agricultural land, as well as other businesses, is covered by tons of lava. No casualties were reported inside Clark two days since the initial eruption because 18,000 personnel and their families were transported to Guam and Subic Naval Base in Zambales.

Mount Pinatubo's eruption forced the US leadership to prematurely abandon its military installations at Clark Air Base. This was in addition to voting by the Philippine Senate in 1991 to no longer extend the Laurel-Langley Treaty, which enabled the presence of US military forces in the Philippines, ending a long chapter of Filipino-American relations in the history of Angeles.. The US military never returned to Clark, handed the damaged base to the Philippine government on November 26, 1991

In 1993, the cleaning and removal of volcanic ash deposits began. The former base re-emerged as the Clark Special Economic Zone (CSEZ) approved by President Fidel V. Ramos on April 3 of the same year. The airport infrastructure is being upgraded and destined to become the country's premier airport in the next five years and one of the most modern in Asia. The creation of CSEZ has helped offset the loss of income and jobs previously generated by the presence of US bases. Currently, Angeles and Clark jointly form the center for business, industry, aviation and tourism, as well as the entertainment and games center of Central Luzon. According to the Kapampangan Study Center, the dish comes from this town and has been on the menu since the 1730s. Pampanga is known as the culinary center of the Philippines.

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Climate

Under the KÃÆ'¶ppen climate classification system, Angeles has a tropical savanna climate bordering the tropical monsoon climate (climatic classification KÃÆ'¶ppen Aw/Am). Angeles experienced two distinct seasons: the dry season from December to April, with the rainy season from May to November. From 1953 to 1991, the lowest daily average was 73.6 Â ° F and the highest daily average was 88.1 Â ° F, with June being the warmest and January and February being the coolest. Average annual rainfall is 78.39 inches. Typhoons tend to approach from the east during the summer and fall. Many destructive storms struck the city, including Hurricane Irma on November 28, 1974 (generally regarded as the strongest); Typhoon Rita on October 27, 1978; Typhoon Irma (the name was reused) on 24 November 1981; Typhoon Ruby on October 25, 1988; and Typhoon Yunya on June 15, 1991 that coincided with the explosion of Mount Pinatubo. In July 1972, Central Luzon experienced an almost continuous rainy month, resulting in 96 inches falling on the plains around Angeles.

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Barangay

Angeles is divided into 33 barangay.

Anunas

Anunas is a barangay that houses the City of Korea, a chain of Korean companies along Jalan Friendship Fil-Am. Anunas is also identified as one of the city's growth centers, focusing on light industries such as woodcraft and rattan handicrafts.

Balibago and MalabaÃÆ' Â ± as

Balibago is the main entertainment district of Angeles. It contains Casino Filipino Angeles and the famous Fields Avenue tourist belt. Entertainment-related companies such as The Dollhouse Group, Hotel Kokomo Group also spill over to MalabaÃÆ'Â ± as, located next to Balibago. Hotels, such as the Penthouse Hotel, the Lewis Grand Hotel, and the Angeles Beach Club (ABC) Hotel are also abundant along Don Juico Avenue, which runs from Balibago to MalabaÃÆ'Â ± as. The largest mall in town, SM City Clark, is also located in Barangay MalabaÃÆ'Â ± as.

Pampang and San Nicolas

These two barangays form the main urban public market district. Pampang Wet Market, San Nicolas Market, Flea Market Friday (locally called Apu), Jumbo Jenra Angeles, Puregold Angeles, and Angeles Slaughterhouse can be found here. The Pampang Wet Market is the largest and most visited wet market in Pampanga province. It also attracts people from nearby cities. Ospital Ning Angeles (ONA), City College of Angeles, Angeles City National High School is located in Pampang.

Pulung Maragul

Pulung Maragul is a barangay that houses a city government complex, which includes Angeles City Hall, Angeles City Hall, and other government buildings. It is also the Angeles Exit location of the North Luzon Expressway and Marquee Mall, the first shopping mall of Ayala in Central Luzon. Marquee Place and Marquee Residences then ride on Pulung Maragul also, next to the mall.

Santo Rosario

Santo Rosario is poblacion. It is home to most of Angeles's heritage and historic structures such as the Holy Rosary Church, Pamintuan Mansion privately owned by Maverick Pamintuan, Bale Herencia, and Museo ning Angeles (former Town Hall). Holy Angel University, the largest university in Central Luzon in terms of population, is also located here. Plans to declare barangay or its parts as inheritance zones are underway.

Sapangbato

Sapangbato is the largest barangay in Angeles in terms of territory, with a total land area of ​​187,694 square meters and a population of 9,920. Located in northwestern Angeles near the Clark Freeport Zone, it is identified as barangay in Angeles with the highest altitude of 750 feet above sea level. It is home to Fort Stotsenburg, also known as the Grounds of Clark Parade. apl.de.ap, a member of hip hop group The Black Eyed Peas, is from Sapangbato. Puning Hot Springs of Brgy is famous. Inararo di Porac is accessed via Goal Sitio in Sapangbato.

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Demographics

Culture

The city also hosts a street party called Tigtigan Tereng keng Dalan ( lit up. Music and Dancing on the Road ) every October featuring live music from both the amateur and more famous OPM bands.

In December, a celebration dedicated to Kapmpangan dishes, sisig is used to be held every December. The Sisig Festival locally known as Sadsaran Qng Angeles is held annually. It was discontinued in 2008 after the death of Lucia Cunanan known for promoting the dish.

Religion

The majority of the population of Angeles is Catholic. At least two major festivals associated with the Catholic faith were held in October in the city. Commemorating the victory of the Spanish fleet of the Dutch Navy in 1646, La Naval Fiesta was celebrated in honor of Our Lady of La Naval de Manila with believers that its intercession was instrumental to the victory of the Spanish navy. The Apu Fiesta involves enthusiasts from all over Pampanga make a visit to the Apu temple to glorify the image of Jesus Christ lying in a grave believed to be miraculous by a believer.

Expatriate community

Due to the presence of US bases and the nearby Freeport Zone, many Americans choose permanent settlements in the area, especially in Balibago district, and thus Angeles is home to expatriate colonists. During the American colonial period (1898-1946), more than 800,000 Americans were born in the Philippines, and a large number of Filipino mestizos or Filipinos with American ancestors were in this city.

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Economy

Despite major challenges facing the city, such as the removal of the US Clark Air Base and the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991, all of this has been surpassed by AngeleÃÆ'Â ± os. The increase in the Angeles economy is said to have been triggered by the transformation of the US base into the Clark Freeport Zone, where Clark International Airport is located. Angeles is home to a burgeoning technology industry. Its economy is also based on tourism and gambling. Fields Avenue forms the center of the nightlife industry focused in Angeles. With close proximity to Clark Freeport International Airport, Angeles is visited by foreigners throughout the year.

In the 2000s, the local government of Angeles recruited Fields Avenue tourist belts as a high-end destination with fine restaurants and luxury hotels and casinos. The completion of roads, such as the Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, has increased trade and transportation. The project connects the industrial, transportation and business centers of Pampanga, Zambales, Bataan and Tarlac. This project is critical to strengthening growth in Central Luzon.

The city has a home industry that produces rattan furniture, coconut, and charcoal briquettes. It also has many growing export business in handicrafts, metal crafts, toys, home appliances and clothing. In addition to the Clark Freeport Zone, industrial parks include Angeles Livelihood Village and Angeles City Industrial Estate.

Call centers that are present are e-Telecare, CyberCity, Sutherland and IRMC, plus other American IT industry is a big company as well. The establishment of a number of shopping centers also boosted the city's economy, including SM City Clark, Robinson Place Angeles, Jenra Grand Mall, Nepo Mall, Saver's Mall and Marquee Mall, next to City Hall.

The consequence of the presence of US headquarters in this country is the prostitution industry in the city. Since the inception of Clark Air Base, Fields Avenue in Balibago district is an area frequented by US troops, has been known as a center of prostitution and sex tourism. A BBC article describes it as "the center of the Filipino sex industry" and is dubbed the "Sin City". Elsewhere and in later years, the Philippines travel publication described it as "The Capital of Central Luzon Entertainment" and "The City of Entertainment"

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School

Tertiary and higher education

• Rafael L Lazatin Memorial Highschool (RLLMHS MAIN)

Angeles City National School of Commerce

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Famous people

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Twin Cities

Angeles has the following twin cities:

• Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
• Seo District, Daegu, South Korea
• Davao City, Philippines
• San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines
• Valenzuela, Philippines

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References

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External links

• The official Angeles City official website
• The latest guide on Angeles City attractions
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• Census Information Philippines
• Local Government Performance Management System
• Interactive roadmap in Angeles City area

Source of the article : Wikipedia