Guiguinto, Bulacan
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Location | |
Map of Bulacan showing the location of Guiguinto | |
Government | |
Region | Central Luzon (Region III) |
Province | Bulacan |
District | |
Barangays | 15 |
Income Class: | 2nd |
Mayor | Isagani C. Pascual |
Physical characteristics | |
Population
Total (2007) |
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Guiguinto is a 2nd class urban municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. It's now conurbated with Metro Manilla. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 89,225 Inhabitants (67,571 people in 14,513 households in census 2000).
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[edit] Halamanan Festival
On January 23, 2008, Guiguinto will celebrate the 9th Halamanan or Garden Festival with Guiguinto Foundation day. 1/4 of its 2,512 hectares was converted into nurseries giving livelihood to 500 families of gardeners and landscapers. Mayor Isagani Pascual announced that the landscaping business in Guiguinto is now a P 50 ($1 = 40) million industry. Jojo Sebastian, chair of the Guiguinto Garden City Cooperative stated that their garden stores sell P 100,000 to P 300,000 plants and contracts for garden and landscapes designs a month.[1]
[edit] Barangays
Guiguinto is politically subdivided into 14 barangays:
- Cutcut
- Daungan
- Ilang-Ilang
- Malis
- Panginay
- Poblacion
- Pritil
- Pulong Gubat
- Santa Cruz
- Santa Rita
- Tabang
- Tabe
- Tiaong
- Tuktukan
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Cities and Municipalities of Bulacan | |
Cities: | Malolos | Meycauayan | San Jose del Monte |
Municipalities: | Angat | Balagtas | Baliuag | Bocaue | Bulacan | Bustos | Calumpit | Doña Remedios Trinidad | Guiguinto | Hagonoy | Marilao | Norzagaray | Obando | Pandi | Paombong | Plaridel | Pulilan | San Ildefonso | San Miguel | San Rafael | Santa Maria |