Bataan
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| Basic data | |
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| Region : | Central Luzon |
| Capital : | Balanga City |
| Population : | 760.650 August 1, 2015 census
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| Population density : | 554 inhabitants per km² |
| Area : | 1,372.98 km² |
| PSGC : | 030800000 |
| Official website: | http://www.bataan.gov.ph/ |
| structure | |
| - Highly urbanized cities | |
| - provincial cities | 1 |
| - municipalities | 11 |
| - Barangays | 237 |
| - electoral districts | 2 |
| Location of the province in the Philippines | |
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Coordinates: 14 ° 42 ′ N , 120 ° 24 ′ E Bataan is a Philippine province in the Central Luzon regionon the island of Luzon , which occupies the entire area of the peninsula of the same name. The capital of the province is Balanga City .
geography
The province covers the entire Bataan Peninsula, which lies between the South China Sea and Manila Bay . In the north it borders on the two provinces of Zambales and Pampanga . In front of the peninsula is the small island of Corregidor , which is not part of the Bataan province. The Bataan Peninsula is a branch of the Zambales Mountains . 80 percent of the land area is characterized by the two volcanoes Mariveles and Natib and the surrounding mountains. At 1,253 meters, the Natib is the highest mountain in the province. The Bataan National Park extends around the mountain, to which the Subic Watershed Forest Reserve joins in the northeast .
Cities and municipalities
Bataan is divided into a city and eleven municipalities, which in turn in 237 barangays split:
Cities:
Municipalities:
history
In the late 16th century , the Chinese pirate leader Limahong had a base here, from which he tried in vain to conquer the island of Luzon.
In 1647 Dutch naval ships landed here and tried to conquer the country from the Spanish . The troops killed the inhabitants of the city of Abucay .
Bataan became famous during World War II when it was captured by Japanese troops in April 1942. The peninsula and Corregidor offered the Filipino and US forces the last resort. When the Japanese army conquered the peninsula and forced the opposing forces to surrender on April 9, 1942, they made a very large number of prisoners of war . From here they started the so-called death march of Bataan .
economy
The only nuclear power plant in the Philippines is located in Bataan, the Bataan Nuclear Powerplant , which was completed in 1984 ; so far, however, it has not been put into operation. It may be converted into a gas-fired power plant.
The NPP was a project by President Ferdinand Marcos . After its fall in February 1986, his successor Corazon Aquino stopped the 98 percent completed nuclear reactor for safety reasons: the Philippines (like Java) belong to the Pacific Ring of Fire , a tectonically very turbulent region with many earthquakes and volcanoes. The Bataan region is dominated by the Mariveles , Natib and Pinatubo volcanoes . The latter broke out on June 12, 1991 after 611 years of inactivity. Worldwide, there was sulfur-containing fog in the atmosphere for months, and the temperature temporarily dropped by 0.5 degrees. The location of the nuclear power plant is in the possible catchment area of a pyroclastic flow of the Natib.
Personalities
- Cayetano Arellano (1847–1920), first chairman of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
- Oscar V. Cruz (1934–2020), clergyman and archbishop of Linayen-Dagupan
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Janine Böhm, Tobias Hauser: Nuclear Mottenkiste . In: badische-zeitung.de, Nachrichten, Ausland , January 14, 2012 (January 14, 2012)