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Alicia is a 2nd class municipality in the province of
IsabelaIsabela is the second largest province of the Philippines next to Palawan. It is located in the Cagayan Valley Region in Luzon. Its capital is Ilagan and borders, clockwise from the south, Aurora, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya, Ifugao, Mountain Province, Kalinga, and Cagayan...
,
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. According to the latest census, it has a population of 61,447 people in 11,413 households.
Barangays
Alicia is politically subdivided into 34
barangayA barangay , also known by its former Spanish adopted name, the barrio, is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. Barangays are further subdivided into smaller areas called Puroks...
s.
- Amistad
- Antonino (Pob.)
- Apanay
- Aurora
- Bagnos
- Bagong Sikat
- Bantug-Petines
- Bonifacio
- Burgos
- Calaocan (Pob.)
- Callao
- Dagupan
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Inanama
Linglingay
M.H. del Pilar
Mabini
Magsaysay (Pob.)
Mataas na Kahoy
Paddad
Rizal
Rizaluna
Salvacion
San Antonio (Pob.) |
San Fernando
San Francisco
San Juan
San Pablo
San Pedro
Santa Cruz
Santa Maria
Santo Domingo
Santo Tomas
Victoria
Zamora |
History
AliciaAlicia is a female given name, a form of Alice, popular in medieval Spain, which is from the Old French Adelis, from Old High German Adalheidis, and may also refer to one of the following. It can be pronounced A-leesh-a, A-lee-see-a, or A-liss-ee-a.- People :* Ana Alicia, Mexican actress* Alisha ,...
used to be the old town of Angadanan until the new Angadanan was relocated in 1776 to its current location near the Angadanan Creek. Alicia is known for its old Castilian architectural church as tourists destination. Passing by Angadanan town on February 12, 1805, Fr. Manuel Mora, OP wrote that “Angadanan has a convent of bricks, though not totally finished. Its church is timber, wood and bamboo. The number of inhabitants is 791.” Fr. Tomas Calderon (OP) started building the present church that was inaugurated in 1849 and dedicated to the
Nuestra Senora de Atocha, more popularly known as
Our Lady of Atocha. The old Angadanan was renamed in 1949 in honor of then President
Elpidio QuirinoElpidio Rivera Quirino was a Filipino politician, and the sixth President of the Philippines.A lawyer by profession, Quirino entered politics when he became a representative of Ilocos Sur from 1919 to 1925. He was then elected as senator from 1925-1931...
’s wife: Dona Alicia Syquia Quirino.
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