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  Laguna (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its capital is Santa Cruz and the province is located southeast of Metro Manila, south of the province of Rizal, west of Quezon, north of Batangas and east of Cavite.
In the forests of Mount Makiling and in the waters of Laguna de Bay are an abundance of flora and fauna.
Laguna was one of the eight provinces to rise in revolt against the Spanish misrule led by Generals Paciano Rizal of Calamba, Severino Taino of Pagsanjan, Agueda Kahabagan (woman general) of Calauan, and Miguel Malvar of Batangas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laguna_province   (1683 words)

  
 Calamba City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Calamba City is a 1st class city in the province of Laguna, Philippines.
Calamba lies at the northern slopes of Mount Makiling, an extinct volcano.
Calamba City is bordered by Cabuyao to the north, Los Baños to the east, by the province of Batangas to the south, specifically the municipalities of Santo Tomas and Talisay, and by the province of Cavite to the west, with Tagaytay City and Silang.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calamba_City   (627 words)

  
 About Laguna Province, Philippines
The province of Laguna was named after Laguna de Bay, the body of water that forms the province’s northern boundary.
This province along with its surrounding regions were conquered for Spain by Capt. Juan de Salcedo in 1571 and seven years hence, the Franciscan friars started the Christianization of the province.
Laguna was one of the first eight provinces to rise in revolt against the Spanish rule.
www.islandsaccommodations.com /places/laguna.htm   (3129 words)

  
 Laguna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the Philippines
Comarca Lagunera, often referred to simply as "Laguna", is a metropolitan area in the states of Coahuila and Durango in Mexico
Laguna Beach, often referred to simply as "Laguna", in Orange County, California
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laguna   (223 words)

  
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The province was declared in a state of war when Governor General Ramon Blanco daclared martial law on August 30, 1896.
Jacinto was Commander of the Zone comprising the provinces of Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan, and Nueva Ejica.
Cruz was captured on April 10, 1899, Pagsanjan on the eleventh, and Longos and Paete on the twelfth.
www.laguna.net /laguna/data/history.html   (532 words)

  
 Calabarzon Region 4A is in the southern part of the island Luzon.
To the east are the provinces of Quezon and Laguna and to the north is Cavite and Laguna.
The province is bordered to the north by Manila Bay and the city of Manila and is directly across the bay from the province of Bataan.
It is the nearest eastern neighbour to Manila and to the west lie the provinces of Laguna and Quezon.
www.philippines-travel-guide.com /calabarzon.html   (727 words)

  
 Laguna Philippines Real Estate
Laguna province is home to such popular tourist attractions as the Enchanted Kingdom theme park, various hot springs in Pansol municipality that impart therapeutic benefits, Pagsanjan Falls, Mount Makiling, Jose Rizal Shrine in Calamba, Laguna De Bay and Pakil and Paete towns famous for wood carvings and papier mache.
The province is also preparing to host an influx of BPO and call center companies that are expected to further contribute to the enhancement of employment opportunities in the area.
With so much to do and enjoy in Laguna province, it is no wonder why a lot of Filipinos, balikbayans and expatriates have chosen it to be their home and place under the bright Philippine sun.
www.philippine-real-estate.info /laguna-philippines-real-estate.html   (653 words)

  
 Province of Laguna
Laguna is situated 30 kilometers south of Manila and has a total area of 175,973 hectares.
It is bounded on the north by the province of Rizal, on the east by the Sierra Madre Mountain Ranges, on the south by the Quezon province, on the west by Laguna de Bay, and the provinces of Batangas and Cavite.
Laguna has a total registered population of 1,747,000 based on the May, 2000 National Statistics Official Survey.
www.llda.gov.ph /laguna.htm   (99 words)

  
 CALABARZON, Region IV-A, Philippines
Most of these provinces are in the southern part of the island of Luzon, but the province of Palawan, an archipelago in itself, stretches southwest of Luzon almost as far as Borneo, forming one of the four sides of the Sulu Sea.
The province's population is 1,907,000 by the census of 2000, its area 1,474 sq.km.
The province is blessed with the amazing flow of 1,200,000,000 liters of fresh water per day, which combined with the mild climate has permitted the province to sustain a considerable agricultural output, including the commercial cultivation of orchids, other flowers, rice, fruits, and sugar, while retaining its natural beauty.
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 Asian Wisconzine-A traveler's journal 2
My province is famous for being the birthplace of Jose Rizal, the Philippines' national hero; its tourist attractions like Pagsanjan Falls and Hidden Valley Springs; wood carvings of Paete; the hot springs in Los Baños; Caliraya Lake; Makiling National Park; and the internationally known University of the Philippines' Colleges of Agriculture and Forestry.
Santa Cruz is a first class urban municipality in the province of Laguna, and it is also the seat of the provincial government.
Laguna was named after Laguna de Bay, a freshwater lake which separates it from the northern provinces and Metro Manila.
www.asianwisconzine.com /May06HMPLaguna.html   (1635 words)

  
 Laguna Hotels - Hotels in Philippines. Philippines-Hotels.us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Laguna, Resort Province of the Philippines, is a haven of fresh and pristine bodies of water such as hot springs, lakes, and waterfalls.
Laguna is bounded on the north by the province of Rizal, on the east by the Sierra Madre Mountain Ranges, on the south by the Quezon province, on the west by Laguna de Bay, and the provinces of Batangas and Cavite.
Laguna being part of the Southern Tagalog Region, approximately 99.22% of the population speak Tagalog.
www.philippines-hotels.us /laguna-hotels/index.htm   (730 words)

  
 Laguna Province hotels accommodation, Pagsanjan, Paete, Pakil, Los Banos, Laguna Resorts
Laguna's richly-forested hills and mountains provide material for the livelihood of the towns of Pakil and Paete which are woodcarvers' haven.
Laguna was one of the first eight provinces to rise in revolt.
Laguna's revolutionaries conducted one of the most successful guerrilla campaigns in the country but the struggle was eventually abandoned after the capture of President Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901.
www.lakbaypilipinas.com /travel_laguna.html   (379 words)

  
 About Laguna Province, Philippines
Laguna derives its name from "La Laguna" (the lake), referring to Laguna de Bay, the largest inland body of water in the Philippines, which forms the province´s northern boundary.
The town of Bay was the capital of the province until 1688, when it was transferred to Pagsanjan and later in 1852, to Sta.
Laguna was one of the first eight provinces to rise in revolt against Spain.
www.islandsproperties.com /places/laguna.htm   (484 words)

  
 The Provincial Profile of Quezon
Quezon is the farthest eastern province of the Southern Tagalog region and is a
The seas surrounding the province are rich fishing grounds and teem with shrimp, crab, grouper, tilapia, milkfish and squid.
The province of Quezon is anchoring its development around two proposed economic zones that will allow it to participate in the rapid industrialization of the region.
www.geocities.com /lppsec/pp/quezon.htm   (1454 words)

  
 Encyclopedia entries starting with RIZ
It is a landlocked municipality of located 15.53 miles from the provincial capital Santa Cruz and is bounded on the north by municipality of Calauan, on the east by Nagcarlan, on the west by San Pablo City, and on the south..
Its adjacent provinces are Trabzon to the west, Bayburt to the south, Erzurum to the southeast, and Artvin to the east.
Rize province is largely rural and is known for its mountain v..
encycl.opentopia.com /R/RI/RIZ   (2121 words)

  
 batangas province info
It is bounded on the north by Cavite, on the east by Laguna and Quezon, on the west by the South China Sea, and on the south by the Verde Island Passage
In fact, the entire province is said to be once the base of a huge volcano which erupted violently and Taal Lake used to be its crater.
The Maricaban and Verde Islands in the Verde Island Passage belong to the province.
www.homestead.com /sbatang/files/batangasinfo.htm   (554 words)

  
 "Laguna"
An important part of the province is Laguna de Bay, a lake that the province shares with Rizal province.
Capital of the province is Santa Cruz, a town of 80,000 inhabitants, located along the eastern shores of Laguna de Bay.
Mabitac, on the northern shore of Laguna de Bay, is one of those magnificent examples of Spanish church architecture.
www.livinginthephilippines.com /golf/southern_luzon_laguna.html   (951 words)

  
 Virtual Philippines - Leisure Guide, Fun Stuff - Pagsanjan Falls, Laguna Province
The town calls itself the "tourist capital of Laguna province" and it is a well-deserved title.
It must be remembered that Governance of the Philippines by Spain was indirect and in fact the local Spanish authorities reported to Mexico which was the principal trade route to Europe at that time.
As a commercial center - from 1688 until 1858, Pagsanjan was the capital of Laguna province - Pagsanjan prospered and that long period of prosperity remains in evidence wherever one looks in this town.
www.virtual-asia.com /ph/leisure/funstuff/pagsanjan.htm   (957 words)

  
 Poe campaign snarls traffic in several Laguna towns - Feb. 27, 2004
The area is regarded as the stronghold of deposed president Joseph Estrada whose family is from Pagsanjan town in Laguna.
His nephew, ER Ejercito, is the town's incumbent mayor and the head of the KNP in the province.
San Luis, the group's gubernatorial candidate in Laguna, said KNP would be back on March 7 to campaign in other Laguna towns.
www.inq7.net /brk/2004/feb/27/brkpol_15-1.htm   (537 words)

  
 IFEX :: Radio correspondent killed in Laguna province
Consignado was the third journalist killed in Laguna province in recent years.
Rhode Sonny Alcantara was killed on 22 August 2002 (see IFEX alerts of 28 and 22 August 2002) and Noel Villarante on 19 August 2003 (see alerts of 1 September, 27 and 21 August 2003).
Ruel Endrinal of radio station DZRC in Legazpi City, Albay province, was shot dead on 11 February (see alert of 11 February 2004).
www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/60645   (442 words)

  
 60 Laguna bets sign pact vs NPA fees - Mar. 23, 2004
CRUZ, Laguna -- With just three days before the formal start of the campaign period for the local elections, about 60 candidates running for local positions in Laguna province on Monday signed a covenant denouncing the payment of permit-to-campaign (PTC) fees to the communist-led New People's Army (NPA) and the use of private armed groups.
Provincial elections officer Dioscoro Pajutan said the police-initiated "pledge of unity for an honest, orderly and peaceful elections" among the candidates of the different political parties in the province was the first in Southern Luzon.
Senior Superintendent Benjamin Belarmino, Calabarzon police director for logistics, said although the province was not included in the Philippine National Police's list of "areas of immediate concern," the regional police had been busy preparing for the May elections for almost six months.
www.inq7.net /reg/2004/mar/23/reg_1-1.htm   (389 words)

  
 NRCP Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This workbook edition is skillfully written with these objectives, i.e., to (1) give the Pharmacognosy students at the college level, an overview of the nature and scope of Pharmacognosy, (2) show them the relationship to the other pharmaceutical disciplines, and (3) make them aware of the role of Pharmacognosy in the practice of Pharmacy.
This guidebook presents the results of the study on the chemistry of hot spring waters in Laguna province which include data on mineral composition, flow rate and other relevant properties of hot spring waters in Laguna province.
It began in 1939 as a field survey to determine the cause of the rice crop failure in the crop years 1937-1939 at the Buenavista Estate in the province of Bulacan.
www.stii.dost.gov.ph /dostpub/nrcp.htm   (3015 words)

  
 Laguna Hotels Resorts - Hotels Resorts in Laguna, TravelMart.net, Philippines
Laguna Hotels and Resorts Reservation Center by TravelMart provides easy hotels in Laguna reservations online.
Laguna Hotels and Resorts rates are very competitive even as low as 75% off the published rates of hotels.
Hidden Valley Springs is a secluded and private resort naturally landscaped at the crater of an extinct-forested volcano in Laguna.
www.travelmart.net /philippines/laguna-hotels-and-resorts.html   (790 words)

  
 Laguna Province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Laguna is located directly at the southern end of Rizal Province and bounded by the Sierra Madre Range on the east, Quezon Province on the south and Batangas and Cavite Province on the west.
Laguna is one of the six continuous provinces that comprise the so-called growth corridor sub-region of the Southern Tagalog Region (or Region IV), which are along the expansion paths of Metropolitan Manila area (MMA).
The other five provinces are Aurora, Batangas, Cavite, Quezon and Rizal.
www.msc.net.ph /laguna/index.html   (96 words)

  
 Find in a Library: [Calamba Sugar Factory, Laguna Province, Philippines]
Subjects: Factories -- Philippines -- Laguna (Province) -- 1910-1930.
Sugar industry -- Philippines -- Laguna (Province) -- 1910-1930.
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