Laur, officially the Municipality of Laur (Tagalog: Bayan ng Laur, Ilocano: Ili ti Laur), is a municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon region of Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 38,263 people. The town was named after the wife of General Manuel Tino, Laureana.
History
Originally, the town was a barrio of the municipality of Bongabon, named San Esteban, after its patron saint, Stephen I of Hungary. Migrant settlers of the community were mostly Tagalog and Ilocanos from the provinces of Ilocos Region and Pangasinan, with some Kapampangans from the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac.
On January 13, 1917, by virtue of Executive Order No. 98 of then Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison, Laur was separated as its own town from Bongabon, and named from the wife of General Manuel Tinio, Laureana. General Tinio himself will have the town of Papaya named after him, as "General Tinio" in 1957. Laur borders General Tinio to the south.
Senators Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Jose W. Diokno were kept in solitary confinement for exactly thirty days in 1973 within Fort Magsaysay in Laur. It is now a museum and houses the AFP Center for Human Rights Dialogue.
Geography
Laur is located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains. It is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Palayan, 145 kilometres (90 mi) from Manila, and 117 kilometres (73 mi) from Baler.
Barangays
Laur is politically subdivided into 17 barangays, as shown below. Each barangay consist of puroks and some have sitios.
Climate
Demographics
Economy
Poverty incidence of Laur
Government
Local government
Past Mayors of Laur are as follows:
- 1. Pedro Panginen (1917-1919)
- 2. Nemesio Peralta (1919-1922)
- 3. Teodoro Manglicmot (1922-1925
- 4. Timoteo De Guzman (1925-1928)
- 5. Pedro Aquino (1928-1931)
- 6. Florentino Pascua (1931-1934)
- 7. Timoteo De Guzman (1934-1937)
- 8. Tomas Arenas (1938-1940)
- 9. Ladisslao Aquino (Nov. 20-Dec. 21, 1940)
- 10. Felix Petines (1940-1941)
- 11. Jose Villavisa (1946-1951)
- 12. Jorge Padilla (1952-1955)
- 13. Manuel Mesina (1956-1963)
- 14. Gabriel Daus (1964-1971)
- 15. Nicolas Abad (1972-1979)
- 16. Gabriel Daus (1979-1986)
- 17. Antonio Tolentino (1986-1998)
- 18. Blas Canlas (1998-2007)
- 19. Alvaro Daus (2007-2016)
- 20. Alexander Daus (2016-2022)
- 21. Christopher Daus (2022-Incumbent)
See also
- Philippine Carabao Center
References
External links
- Philippine Standard Geographic Code
- Philippine Census Information
- Local Governance Performance Management System
