Nampicuan
Nampicuan, officially the Municipality of Nampicuan (; ; ), is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people.
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- Downtown area
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- Economy
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Nampicuan, officially the Municipality of Nampicuan (; ; ), is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. According to the , it has a population of people.
==History== The name Nampicuan stems from the word “Nagpicuan” which means a curve road. This refers to a trail called “curva”, as the inhabitants of Pangasinan used to call it. According to the first settlers, the site was a sitio named used “Surgue” or "Suli” situated in the eastern part of what eventually became the poblacion of Nampicuan. It was the point where the feeder road from Moncada, Tarlac turned abruptly north-east towards the town of Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija.