Gabaldon, Nueva Ecija

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Gabaldon
Municipality

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Map of Nueva Ecija showing the location of Gabaldon

Gabaldon
Location within the Philippines

Coordinates:

1532N 12119ECoordinates:

1532N 12119E

Country

Philippines

Region

Central Luzon (Region III)

Province

Nueva Ecija

District

3rd District

Barangays

16

Government[1]
Mayor

Rolando S. Bue

Area[2]
Total

242.88 km2 (93.78 sq mi)

Population (2010)[3]
Total

32,246

Density

130/km2 (340/sq mi)

Time zone

PST (UTC+8)

ZIP code

3131

Dialing code

44

Income class

3rd class; rural

Gabaldon (formerly Sabani and Bitulok) is a third class municipality in the province of Nueva
Ecija, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 32,246
people.[3] Tagalogs and Ilocanos predominate this town.

The town is tucked between the Sierra Madre Mountains. It lies 171 kilometres (106 mi) north-east
of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. It is bounded by Bongabon on the north, Laur on the
west, General Tinio on the south, and Dingalan by the east.
Contents
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1Barangays
2History
3Demographics
4See also
5References
6External links

Barangays[edit]
Gabaldon is politically subdivided into 16 barangays.[2]

Bagong Sikat
Bagting
Bantug
Bitulok (North Pob.)
Bugnan
Calabasa
Camachile
Cuyapa
Ligaya
Macasandal
Malinao
Pantoc
Pinamalisan
South Poblacion
Sawmill
Tagumpay

History[edit]
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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. [4] 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.[5] The name was later changed from Bitulok to Sabani.[6] Finally,
through Republic Act 1318, approved June 16, 1955, its name was changed from Sabani to
Gabaldon.[7]

In December 1941, during the Second World War, the municipal town hall was burned down and the
town was destroyed by the invading Japanese forces. Japanese bombers and fighter planes
bombed villages that include nipa houses, ancestral houses, Roman Catholic churches, plazas. In
1942, the occupying Imperial Japanese armed forces established their main general headquarters,
garrisons, camp bases, military and civilian POW barracks and local civilian internment camps. From
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 outgoing guerrillas and non-combatant civilians was arrested, tortured, marches and killed
by the hand of the Japanese Imperial forces. The all local civilians were tortured by the Japanese
hands at the Japanese military general headquarters, garrisons and local civilian internment camps
in Gabaldon.
The town was recaptured in 1945 through siege and military raids by the local Filipino soldiers and
guerrilla fighters stationed in the municipality of Gabaldon, the liberation of the stronghold of the local
soldiers of the Philippine Commonwealth armed forces under the 2nd, 22nd, 25th and 26th Infantry
Division 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.

Demographics[edit]
Population census of Gabaldon
Year

Pop.

% p.a.

1990

21,744

1995

25,750

+3.22%

2000

28,324

+2.06%

2007

29,619

+0.62%

2010

32,246

+3.14%

Source: National Statistics Office[3]