Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija

Gabaldon
—  Municipality  —
Map of Nueva Ecija showing the location of Gabaldon.
Gabaldon Location in the Philippines
Coordinates: 15°32′N 121°19′E
Country	Philippines
Region	Central Luzon (Region III)
Province	Nueva Ecija
District	3rd District
Founded
Barangays	16
Government
• Mayor	Rolando S. Bue
Area
• Total	242.88 km2 (93.8 sq mi)
Population (2007)
• Total	29,619
• Density	121.9/km2 (315.8/sq mi)
Time zone	PST (UTC+8)
ZIP code	3131
Income class	4th class; rural

Population Census of Gabaldon
Census	Pop.		Rate
1995	25,750		—
2000	28,324		2.07%
2007	29,619		0.62%

Gabaldon (formerly Sabani and Bitulok) is a 4th class municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines. According to the latest census, it has a population of 29,619 people in 6,038 households.

The town is tucked by the Sierra Madre Mountains. It lies 171 kilometers northeast of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. Tagalogs predominate this town. It is bounded by Bongabon on the north, Laur on the west, General Tinio on the south, and Dingalan by the east.

History

Gabaldon was the site of the Sabani estate, the largest hacienda in Nueva Ecija during the second half of the 19th century, with 3,000 heads of cattle and occupying more than 6,000 hectares. The entire area was then part of the township of Laur. In 1950, the barrios of Bitulok, Bantug, Bitulok Saw Mill, Cuyapa, Macasandal, Pantok, Calumpang, Malinao, Tagumpay, Bugnan, Bagong Sicat, Ligaya, Calabasa, Bateria and Pintong Bagting, then belonging to the town of Laur, were separated to constitute the new town of Bitulok. The name was later changed from Bitulok to Sabani. Finally, through Republic Act 1318, approved June 16, 1955, its name was changed from Sabani to Gabaldon.

During the Second World War, the invasion of the Japanese bomber and fighter planes was destroyed and air-raid bombings of all villages include nipa houses, ancestral houses, Roman Catholic churches, plazas and municipal town hall when there burned around the municipal town of Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija in December 1941 during the Japanese Invasion. On 1942, the occupation by the Imperial Japanese armed forces entering the town in Gabaldon.

1942 to 1944, some of all the ongoing local soldiers of the Philippine Commonwealth military and aided the helpful of the Novo Ecijano guerrilla resistance and the Hukbalahap Communist guerrillas was the invaded the municipal town of Gabaldon during the Japanese Insurgencies and Occupation and attacking Japanese Imperial forces. The headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces was built of the military garrisons and camps here the town of Gabaldon around the municipal halls, plazas, Roman Catholic churches and plains during the Japanese Occupation. The all local Novo Ecijano non-combanant civilians was arrested, tortured, marches and killed by the hand of the Japanese Imperial forces. The all local civilians was torturing by the Japanese hands at the Japanese military garrisons in Gabaldon.

On 1945, the liberation of the stronghold the local soldiers of the Philippine Commonwealth armed forces under the 2nd, 22nd, 25th and 26th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army was sending military operations around the municipal towns in the province of Nueva Ecija from the local P.C.A. military general headquarters and military camps in the province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon and aided the Novo Ecijano guerrilla resistance and the Hukbalahap Communist guerrillas was liberated and recaptured the municipal town of Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija and defeated Japanese Imperial armed forces and ended World War II.

Barangays

Gabaldon is politically subdivided into 16 barangays.

Bagong Sikat Bagting Bantug Bitulok (North Pob.) Bugnan Calabasa Camachile Cuyapa

Ligaya Macasandal Malinao Pantoc Pinamalisan South Poblacion Sawmill Tagumpay

External links

• Pasyalan Nueva Ecija
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 1995 Philippine Census Information
• 2000 Philippine Census Information
• 2007 Philippine Census Information