San Nicolas, officially the Municipality of San Nicolas, (Pangasinan: Baley na San

Nicolas; Ilokano: Ili ti San Nicolas; Tagalog: Bayan ng San Nicolas), is a 1st class municipality in
the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 35,574
people.[3]
It is the only town that borders Nueva Vizcaya.
Soon the completion building and concreting of the Villa Verde Road will be a short cut to go to
Santa Fe, Nueva Vizcaya and easier access to the upland barangays of Malico and Fianza.

Barangay[edit]
San Nicolas is located in north-eastern part of Pangasinan and is politically subdivided into
33 barangays.

 Bensican
 Cabitnongan
 Caboloan
 Cacabugaoan
 Calanutian
 Calaocan
 Camanggaan/
 Camindoroan/
 Casaratan/
 Dalumpinas/
 Fianza/
 Lungao/
 Malico/
 Malilion/
 Nagkaysa/
 Nining
 Poblacion East/ the epicenter
 Poblacion West/ the center
 Salingcob
 Salpad
 San Felipe East
 San Felipe West
 San Isidro (Sta. Cruzan)
 San Jose Del Rio
 San Rafael Centro
 San Rafael East
 San Rafael West
 San Roque
 Santa Maria East
 Santa Maria West
 Santo Tomas
 Siblot
 Sobol

San Nicolas is a place with many waterfalls from the Caraballo Mountain Range and a number of
rivers that serve as a picnic ground for vacationers during holidays and summertime.
Lipit falls are located in Barangay Sta. Maria East. It is an hour trail from the Red Arrow Monument
along Cabalitian River. Best time to visit the place is during the summertime but it is also safe to go
there during rainy seasons.
Agpay falls is in Barangay San Felipe East. During the '70s up to the '80s it was actually one of the
best natural tourist spots in eastern Pangasinan.
Other waterfalls of interest include: Pinsal falls 1, 2 and 3, located in Sitio Nagsimbaoaan in
Barangay Cacabugaoan; Mambolo falls, located at Brgy. Salpad and Pinsal Bensican in brgy.
Bensican; and Baracbac falls are located in Barangay Fianza just north of Sitio Puyao.
Mejias Resort is located at town proper of San Nicolas. It has a wide space for picnic area and
reception hall for kinds of parties and events.They are accepting decorating services and catering for
all kinds of special events, including the concept and design, planning, day of coordination, and
much more. They have also swimming pools for adults and children.
Krystala de Corazon is located at Barangay Calaocan, San Nicolas.
Esperanza's Garden is located at Barangay Cabitnongan, San Nicolas.
Cabalisian River - crystal clear water located at Brgy. Sta. Maria.
THE GENESIS OF THE TOWN
In the beginning, long before the coming of the Spanish missionaries and soldiers to pacify and conquer the pristine
Agno Valley and the Tierras de Montaños of Northern Luzon at the latter part of the 16th Century, native villages has b
dotted existence within the breadth of what to become the territory and geopolitical entity known today as the town
Nicolas.

As early as the second decade of the 17th Century, Spanish Missionaries and Historians had already been mentioning i
chronicles, localities which can be considered as the mother places that had spawned today's town of San N

Villages such as the Ambayabang (Balungao) of the legendary native chief Cayon Dagarag, Maliongliong (Mallilion) tha
housed the dominican mission of San Josef in 1732, as well as that of Apsay (Agpay) of the present Agpay Eco-tourist fam
already be found in the old maps, some dating as far back as the year

The gradual development of the said villages, as they later opened to Spanish interactions and incursions, esp
of Ambayabang and Maliongliong, were the intertwined genes that had formed the nucleus of the

It was mainly the establishment of religious missions that had paved the road towards the founding of San Nicolas as a

The alternating missionary activities of the Dominicans and Augustinians in the area, beginning in the year 1607, engen
two major missionary routes to the genesis and evolution of the town of San Nicolas, from an informal mission commu
the early Spanish period to an independent and vibrant pueblo nuevo of the 19th century Pangasinan.
 A Reproduction of an Old Spanish Map showing Ambayabang together with the existing places in Northern Luzon ca. 1

First of the two routes mentioned earlier that led to the founding of the town was one that came from the Dominican c
Pangasinan towards the northeastern part of the province through the establishment in 1732 of the San Josef Miss
Maliongliong (Mal

The other route was one that came from the southeastern Augustinian mission areas embarking from Ytuy and Baler
Pampanga delta and Sierra Madre region through the San Nicolas de Tolentino Mission in the village of Ambay
(Balungao), founded by a very young Augustinian friar named Agustin Barriocanal sometime in the late 1738 to early

In due course of times and events, the two paths eventually met and from that point was born a town with a history to
the unadulterated pages of fate and destiny.
THE ILOCANO EXODUS
The latter part of the eighteenth century and the onset of the nineteenth century, saw the diasporic migration and resett
Ilocano families to Panga

Rapid population growth and the scarcity of land for habitation and tillage, drove the industrious and persevering Iloca
migrate and leave their

Searching for the proverbial greener pasture, many of them found their way to the eastern and western parts of Panga
Those who opted to settle in the east were initially confined to the towns north of San F

Later, they went farther eastward as they found the rich natural resources of the frontier region such as gold along the
River, timber and wood from the lowland plains, and dense and lush green forest which they later cleared and converte
vast tract of arable lands they made good use for plant and crop cultiv

Ilocano migrations to the area may have started between the period from the first decade to middle part of the 18th Ce
Although, those were so insignificant that it went unrecorded in the towns historical anals and chro

More batch of migrant Ilocanos found their way into the vicinity of the town in the year 1780, but, the migration that ink
indelible mark in the town's recorded history occurred in the year

The 1800 influx was a highlight batch as it was by far the largest contingent that came into the area. It include among
the couples Nicolas Patrico and Isidra Sangalang, and the families of Jose Castillo, Raymundo Umaguing, Bernardo Alim
and the company of other families and indivi

The group came from the towns of San Fabian and San Jacinto, two among the first towns to be established in Panga
Originally, they came from the Ilocos before they migrated to Pangasinan.

When the group arrived in the area , they searched for the most conducive place to establish their
settlement. And it did not took them long to find the proverbial spot in the southern flank of Rio
Ambayabang near the immediate vicinity of the then humble mission settlement of San Nicolas de
Tolentino that had relocated there from its former base in the village of Balungao.

The place was strategically resting on a high ground that made it safe from the perennial flooding of the
Ambayabang. There had also been erected a modest chapel by the San Nicolas mission nearby, which
had made the place even more appealing and desirable to the emigrants.

As there were only few inhabitants in the place before their arrival, converts from Balungao and those
from Maliongliong and other settlements within the radius where the mission's chuch bell can be heard,
would go to the place and join in fulfilling religious obligations expected of zealous catholic faithful.
Thus when Nicolas Patricio's group arrived in the area, the place formally became a barrio as their
number supplied enough quantity of people required and the stability needed to formalized the
mission's relocation site as an organize civilian settlement.

A 1789 map plotted and drawn by Fray Francisco Antolin. This proved the fact that long before the year
1810, San Nicolas had already been existing as as mission settlement and a de facto pueblo, although,
no promulgation yet as a town.

The newly formed community became the core that created the foundation of the future poblacion.
This could be the basis upon which the long-believed oral history attributing the origin and founding of
the town to Don Nicolas Patricio y Mejia came from.

However, in the light of the facts having drawn and found from all available sources, the Nicolas Patricio
story is hereby taken just as a part of the whole historical tableau of San Nicolas history and not as the
be-all-and-end-all sort of thing.

Throughout the span of the 19th century, Ilocano migration flowed-in continually. More communities
rose within the area. And before the elevation of San Nicolas to a pueblo visita, two new barrios were
born, San Rafael and San Jose, both a product of Ilocano migration. In 1810, by the instigation of local
and church leaders particularly that of San Nicolas mission, the principales and other eminent
personalities of the existing settlements then decided and initiated procedures for the formalization and
official establishment of San Nicolas mission to a pueblo visita, concurrent to becoming a pueblo civil.

This was to be effected and carried through the union of all the existing villages in the area under one
organic entity.

San Nicolas mission becoming a pueblo visita and a pueblo civil means, it was to become civilly
independent but still ecclesiastically subordinated to a mother parish.

By civil authority, it became a part of the Commandancia Politico Militar de Nueva Ecija. Ecclesiastically,
it became a matrix of the pueblo parroco de Tayug under the jurisdiction of the Augustinian Prelate
Provincial based in Pampanga.

The most significant factor brought by the elevation of San Nicolas from a mission to a visita and
a pueblo civil was the advent of civil government in the town. Becoming a pueblo civil entailed the
appointment of a governadorcillo to oversee the administration of the pueblo's civil affairs.

Governadorcillos were next in rank, prestige and power after the Cura Parroco in every Spanish
controlled part of the Philippines during those periods. Their main function was to collect tribute from
among the natives aged nineteen to sixty.

Every Governadorcillo ascends to office by direct selection and appointment, and later, by the
endorsement of the local parish priest.

From the information kept in the file of the late Don Juan C. Rollolazo, who served as Vice Mayor from
1938 to 1940, it was Don Bernardo Alimorong who was appointed as the first governadorcillo of the
town of San Nicolas in its elevation from just a mere mission settlement to a pueblo visita and pueblo
civil in the year 1810.

Such made him, the first in the roster of governadorcillos of the town, on the basis of San Nicolas under
the Commandancia of Nueva Ecija. As governadorcillos during those times were to serve only for a year,
succeeding personalities who likewise served by appointment in the same capacity and office before
1818 were:
1811 - Don Pascual Verceles
1812 - Don Juan Castillo
1813 - Don Mateo Macairap
1814 - Don Martin Castillo
1815 - Don Bernardo Bonifacio
1816 - Don Juan Basilio
1817 - Don Vicente Erese

Simultaneous to the processes undertaken in the elevation of the mission to a visita and the formation
of the pueblo civil, was the choice of the site that would fit the requirements for the new
town’s poblacion.

The most important factor among other considerations was to ensure that the church building was built
and located on higher ground to remove it from direct threat of flood and that together with the town
plaza it ought to be at the heart of the town. From this center, the streets should radiate out to the
outlying barrios.

The Nicolas Patricio-led Ilocano settlement that had absorbed itself to the San Nicolas mission
community inevitably became the pueblo nuevo’s poblacion. The social infrastructures existing in the
place such as the Catholic church edifice, though a modest one, made it almost automatically the
preferred if not the sole fitting candidate for a place of the poblacion.

A Reproduction of an Old Spanish Map ca. 1760 showing Maliongliong, San Nicolas Mission and the
Ambayabang
Furthermore, the site was proximate to the next Augustinian parish of Tayug. In fact, as early as 1760,
San Nicolas Mission Settlement, although still a sparsely populated mission community, had been
considered to be at par with modern communities during those periods.

Having been chosen as the site of the pueblo centro or poblacion, the Ilocano village of the relocated
mission of San Nicolas had the privilege to adopt and maintain the mission and locality name the same
as the new pueblo’s official name.

From that period on, San Nicolas was the title use to refer to the entire territory in which the existing
settlements then had integrated to form a pueblo civil and a pueblo visita, though, still dependent as
matrix of pueblo parroco de Tayug.

The former Barrio San Nicolas became the town center or Poblacion with Nicolas Patricio as its
first Cabeza de Barangay.

With the founding of the pueblo visita, prominent families rose to further eminence and eventually
evolved to become the town’s “nababaknang” or principalia class. From them rose and borne the future
ruling elites of the town.

These principalia families can be easily recognized by the place of their residences as they usually stands
near the town center, thus, near the church building, the tribunal, and other government buildings. The
nearer a house to the plaza centro, the more important and socially higher class a family was.

On May 3, 1817, San Nicolas was ceded to the civil jurisdiction of Pangasinan from the Commandancia
Politico Militar de Nueva Ecija under the province of Pampanga. This transfer ushered-in a new system
through which civil officials of the town were installed to office commencing the year 1818.

Previously, all governadorcillos were installed to office by the sole and direct appointment of the Cura
Parroco. However, in 1818, barely a year of being a town under the province of Pangasinan, the
appointment of governadorcillos were given a dash of democratic elements as San Nicolas made its
historical first exercise of electing its town officials through a local electoral body composed of twelve
members selected from the principales of the town.

These principales were men of high stature and regard in the community. Usually, they were from the
roster of previous gobernadorcillos and cabezas de barangay who served in the town.

Selected by means of draw lots, leaders representing the various villages in the town then gathered and
convened the electoral body, and for the first time elected the governadorcillo.

Don Nicolas Patricio y Mejia, a prominent and respected Ilocano leader, won the body’s favor and thus
became the first to be installed to the office of governadorcillo by means of an election. His election was
later confirmed by the endorsement of the Cura Parroco.
He was the first to serve as Governadorcillo with the pueblo as part already of the province of
Pangasinan. All his predecessors had served their terms as governadorcillo with the town still under the
jurisdiction of Nueva Ecija. Don Nicolas’ term was marked by so much gain of progress and stability as
unity and bond among the town’s ethnic population of Pangasinensis, Ilocanos and the Igorots, were
forged and nurtured by his dynamic leadership.

His administration brought so much accomplishments and development to the town that his remarkable
performance became his successor’s benchmark in their administrations.

Continuing the exemplary model of public and government service he rendered had ensured sustained
progress and development to the town. By the close of 1845, it already had a casa real (state house), a
school house and an accumulated value of 720 tributes sufficient enough to support the maintenance of
a local cura parroco (as they were at that time still under the patronage of the Cura of
Tayug).

It was also highly possible during that time that the modest Catholic chapel they used to have, had
likewise grown into a bigger and larger edifice with its own parish house or convento. These and the
latter mentioned elements qualified the town for elevation to another social organizational level from
a pueblo visita to a full-pledge pueblo parroco

THE ROYAL DECREE OF 1846

After having gained remarkable achievements in the financial and infrastructural aspects of
development, San Nicolas applied for the elevation of its status from a pueblo visita to a pueblo
parroco in the year 1845. Leading the petition was the town’s governadorcillo himself, Don Domingo
Basilio.
The draft of the petition was submitted for approval to the insular government in Manila. It executed
the formal promulgation of the town to a separate and independent Catholic Parish. After favorably
endorsed by the Alcalde Mayor (provincial governor) and made recommending approval by the bishop
of Nueva Segovia, finance officials in the superior Government in Manila found the petition meritorious.

On June 18, 1846, Governor General Narciso Claveria y Zaldua issued the Royal Decree granting the
spiritual separation of San Nicolas from its mother parish of Tayug.

The Spanish Royal Decree bore the ecclesiastical credence that sealed the formal elevation of San
Nicolas as a pueblo parroco and by indirect effect, solidified its status as a pueblo civil. Don Mateo
Miranda was the incumbent governadorcillo when the decreto real was granted. P. Jose Manso was the
first curate assigned by the Dominican Province to administer the newly-elevated catholic community.

Yet, while its formal recognition as an independent town and parish had ended its being just a matrix of
another territory by catholic ecclesiastical parlance, its being subjected to jurisdictional seesaw from one
civil province to another had unfortunately lingered.

On November 15, 1851, San Nicolas, together with the town of Tayug were again separated from
Pangasinan and re-incorporated to the province of Nueva Ecija. There was a plan then by the Spanish
central government in Manila to create a province out of the northwestern part of Nueva Ecija, together
with parts of Pampanga and Pangasinan.

The proposed new province, with envisioned capital at Rosales (Pangasinan), was supposed to be
called Nueva Cuenca, which among others were to include the towns of Paniqui, Barug (now Gerona),
Cuyapo, Guimba, Muñoz, San Jose, Puncan, Lugsit (Lagasit?), Rosales, Umingan, and Tayug.

San Nicolas was by technicality included on the basis of its former relation to Tayug as an ecclesiastical
matrix and likewise its being an Augustinian parish.

Fortunately, the plan for Nueva Cuenca would later be abandoned and would never materialize. In lieu
of it was the creation instead of the Commandancia Politico-Militar de Tarlac in 1860 covering the
Kapampangan towns of Bamban, Capas, Concepcion, Victoria, Tarlac, Mabalacat, Magalang, Porac and
Floridablanca.

In 1873 the last four towns mentioned were returned to Pampanga, and in 1875, with the five remaining
unreturned towns together with the towns of Paniqui, Camiling, Moncada and Gerona from the
province of Pangasinan, Tarlac was made into a separate alcaldia or province. Cuyapo, Guimba, Muñoz,
San Jose, Puncan, Lugsit (Lagasit), Rosales, Umingan, Tayug, and San Nicolas would on the other hand
remain as part of the province of Nueva Ecija.

In April 16, 1863, a petition requesting for the return of the towns of San Nicolas and Tayug to the civil
jurisdiction of Pangasinan was sent to the Superior Government in Manila.

Gobernadorcillos Don Raymundo Sumaguing of San Nicolas and Don Julio de Tolosa of Tayug, were the
main proponents of the petition.

As recorded in the entry pages for 1861 to 1863 in the Bureau of Records Management of the National
Library, the document detailed it as thus,

“Un solicitud delos Gobernadorcillos y Principales de los pueblos de San Nicolas y Tayug, provincia de Nueva Ecija,
pidiendo a separarse de la expresada y agregarse a la provincia de Pangasinan …”

On May 16, 1863, the petition was officially granted, finally placing the town of San Nicolas permanently
a part of the province of Pangasinan and consequently as its north-easternmost town.

On the other hand, it was not until 1902 upon American implementation of the local civil government
reorganization as mandated by the Philippine Commission that the towns of Rosales and Umingan were
ceded to the province of Pangasinan.

The towns of Natividad, San Quintin, and Sta. Maria were all previously part of either the town of San
Nicolas or Tayug. Most part of Natividad were taken from the territory of San Nicolas such as that of San
Eugenio, Licud, Recodo, Barangobong, Amanit, San Modesto and a large part of Barangay San Jose.

Remaining portion of the latter remained as part of the town of San Nicolas with a status of a full pledge
barangay. Likewise, some territories such as those located near today’s Barangay Legaspi were later lost
and ceded to its neighbor and previous ecclesiastical mother town, Tayug.

In the later part of nineteenth and early periods of 20th century, successive natural and biological
calamities tested the town and its people.

In 1837, an earthquake rocked the town. A fire broke out in 1864 that consumed the whole town
including the town’s church and its convent to the ground. Another church was built in place of the
burnt edifice and was made out of wood and base of ladrillos (bricks) with iron sheets roof.

A convent was constructed later which were made of stone masonry. But all these structures together
with the schoolhouse and tribunal were again burned down in the Fil-American war of 1899.

Famine gripped in 1872 and by the turn of the 20th century, Cholera epidemic strikes, in 1901 and 1902;
Plague of small fox in 1905; havoc of influenza in 1918 and 1919 and the most devastating flood in 1935.

Despite all these odds, the founding townspeople pioneering spirit never waned. They stood-up more
resolved in every fall, and with their remarkable fortitude and determination, their endurance paid the
laurel leaf as the town they painstakingly nurtured and cared for, had seen itself winning all the battles it
had fought and came-out a victorious and ultimate survivor in its walk through various periods and
times.

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The Old Municipal Town Hall.

Built and made with bricks and stone, the town hall was constructed during the administration of
Don Pacifico M. Ylarde,
 The building was a gift from Senators and Congressmen at that time to the people of San Nicolas.

The Rizal Monument photo taken in 1978

*The highlight of the town's history happened during the Japanese Occupation and the American The Villaverd
basket of Easte
Liberation in the Philippines. This can be attributed to the fact that this municipality was the base of for a kiss with t
operations of the fightingest guerilla organizations. The town happened to be the scene of the pierce
combats that transpired along the Villaverde Trail meandering through the Caraballo Mountains,
between the Japanese Imperial Forces under the command of Lt General Tomoyuki Yamashita and the
famed US Army 32nd Infantry Division's 127th Infantry Regiment Under the command of Maj Gen
William H. Gill, aided by Filipino guerillas and Igorot men.

The men of the 32nd Infantry Division advanced along the Villaverde Trail beginning on January 30, 1945.
Igorot laborers were employed to carry supplies and evacuate wounded as the rough terrain on the trail
made it impossible for vehicles to support the battle. Victory for the town was attained in January 26,
1945.

In 119 days of almost constant fighting, the 32nd lost 1,051 killed, 3,201 wounded, 14 missing---4,266 in
all. The division killed 9,000 Japanese soldiers and took 50 prisoners.

In 1968, under
opening of th

The 32nd Infantry Division's battle for Villa Verde had one of the bloodiest in U.S. Army history. The men of 32nd---wore the Red Arrow patch indicating
and signifying that the division had pierced every line it had encountered.

The scene of combat was commemorated with a Red Arrow Monument and marker at the foot of the Villaverde Trail.
 The Red Arrow Monument erected in 1945

Today, San Nicolas has developed to be the second largest in land area, at 5,035 square kilometers ,
among the forty seven (47) Pangasinan towns and cities, next only to nearby Umingan. With the
enactment of the Barrio Charter, its eight original barrios have since multiplied into 33 barangays.

With a total population of 33,419 as of the 2007 census, majority of the residents busy themselves with
farming, fishing and pottery, the town's principal industries.

San Nicolas was elevated from a fifth class to a fourth class municipality in 1993 during the incumbency
of Hon. Conrado B. Rodrigo, Jr., as Municipal Mayor.

In the year 2005, it was again elevated to a second class municipality and in 2008, by way of its revenue
share from the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC), it was finally got elevated to a first class
municipality, all under the administration of Municipal Mayor Leoncio S. Saldivar lll respectively.
Like the countless natural resources flourishing in the whole province of Pangasinan, San Nicolas is also
gifted and endowed with natural wealth.

Natural resources of the town are its thich primeval forests, its rich soil, abundant water supply from
rives and springs and an unlimited supply of clay deposits. It has also vast grasslands for cattle raising,
with copper, silver, iron and gold deposits still untapped in outlying areas.

While urbanization is adding to the comforts and modernization on the ways and lives of the
townspeople of San Nicolas, the residents remain faithful to their culture and traditions and to the ideals
upon which their community was founded.

I. GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION

Land Area
The Total land area of the municipality is 23, 481 hectares. Wherein about 72% were consist of mountainous, forested and barren lands. It represents 4.3%
of the provincial land area of 536,920 hectares.

Agricultural land have been cultivated for crop production is 4,694 hectares and about 4,934 hectares are irrigated by gravity type of irrigation which 31
barangays have been enjoying.

For this reason, there are barangays producing palay in the first and second cropping period.

The Municipality of San Nicolas is one of the 48 towns and cities of Pangasinan. It is located in the easternmost part of the province and bounded on the
north by the municipality of Itogon, Benguet; on the east by the Municipality of Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya; on the south by the Municipalities of Tayug and
Natividad; and on the west by the Agno River serving as a natural existing boundary with the Municipality of San Manuel.

It is accessible by land transportation through provincial and municipal roads. It is 40 kilometers away to Urdaneta City, an Urban center nearest to it; 85
kilometers to Lingayen, the Provincial Capital and more or less 201 kilometers north of Manila.

Geographically, the town is located between longitudes 1200 40’ (western point) – 120o 51’ 9eastern point and latitudes 160 12’ (northern point) - 160 03’
(southern point).

Typography
The southwestern portion of the municipality whose terrain is generally flat has an average elevation of 94.0 meters above sea level while the eastern
portion, about 5.0 kilometers from the poblacion, starts to rise from 200.0 meters above sea level to a maximum of about 1000.0 meters above sea level.

The northeastern Caraballo Mountain has a slope that varies from 8-15%, 15-30% and 30-50%. The lowland which comprises about one-third (1/3) of the
municipal land area is relatively flat with 0-30% slope. Area occupied per slope category areas follows:

0-30% ( 7,030 hectares)

8-15% ( 4,865 hectares)
15-30% (10,899 hectares)
30-50% ( 677 hectares)

The three major rivers that traversed the municipality, namely: Agno River; Sabangan River; and Ambayoan River, flow from the northeastern Caraballo
mountains face water drainage of the municipality

Climate
The Climate of San Nicolas is divided into into two (2) seasons, the wet and dry season. The months of June to October are generally termed as the wet
season, characterized by rainy days and occasional typhoons, while the days during the dry season of November to May are relatively hot and dry period.
Soils

There are at least six (6) types of soils in the municipality with total area of 23,481 hectares classified as:
Type Area
1. Annam Clay Loam (98) 17,101has.
2. Umingan Silt (99) 3,790has
3. Riverwash (152) 867has.
4. San Manuel Fine Sandy Loam 171has.
5. Quingua Series (5) 1,000has.
6. San Manuel Silt Loam 114has
Soil Fertility Description

As per data from the ecological profile of Pangasinan, soil fertility of the municipality falls on I, II, and III indexes namely, Very Low Fertility, Low
Fertility and Moderate Fertility, respectively. About 17,796 hectares falls on Index I (Very Low Fertility); 2,071 hectares under Index II (Low Fertility);
and 3,614 hectares under Index III

II. POLITICAL SUBDIVISION

The Municipality of San Nicolas is comprised of Thirty three (33) Barangays.

Out of the 33 Barangays, only four (4) are in Urban area (Casaratan, Nagkaysa, Poblacion East, Poblacion West), the rest belongs to the Rural areas.