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Bauan
Sign in to saveBauan, officially the Municipality of Bauan (), is a municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people.
Key facts
- Settlement.image_flag
- Flag_of_Bauan,_Batangas.png
- Settlement.flag_size
- 120x80px
- Settlement.image_seal
- Bauan Batangas.png
- Settlement.seal_size
- 100x80px
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Philippines
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location within the
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Philippines
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.etymology
- báwang (garlic)
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- May 3, 1596
- Settlement.parts_type
- Barangays
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- para
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of the Philippines
- Official name
- Municipality of Bauan
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Batangas
- Population
- 94016
- Area
- 53.31
- Elevation
- 58
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Shares border with
- San Luis
- Official website
- www.bauan.gov.ph
- Image
- BauanChurchjf9469 23.JPG
- Households
- 22420
- Dialing code
- 43
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- electorate
- 60835
- postal code
- 4201
- Commons category
- Bauan
- Köppen climate classification
- tropical monsoon climate
- language used
- Tagalog
- poverty incidence
- 10.65
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- total assets
- 1511882853.44
- total liabilities
- 512265681.45
- total expenditure
- 442638243.57
- fiscal/tax revenue
- 501022926.56
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Geography
- Barangays
- Climate
- Demographics
- Economy
- Infrastructure
- Bauan International Port
- Education
- Primary and elementary schools
- Secondary schools
- Higher educational institution
- Notable personalities
- Gallery
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Bauan, officially the Municipality of Bauan (), is a municipality in the province of Batangas, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people.
==Etymology== Bauan derived its name from the following Tagalog words: bauang that means "a close or concealed and rugged mountains;" or bawang that translates to garlic that farmers were planting near Taal Lake when they were asked by a Spanish official about the name of the place, not what they were planting as they thought to be Since then, the place's name was registered as Bauang, which was later renamed to Bauan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bauan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.