Dagupan

Dagupan, officially the City of Dagupan or definitely Dagupan City, is a 1st Class independent component town within the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a populace of 171,271 human beings. Located on the Lingayen Gulf at the northwest-relevant a part of the island of Luzon, Dagupan is a major commercial and economic center north of Manila. Also, the metropolis is one of the facilities of contemporary clinical offerings, media and verbal exchange in North-Central Luzon.

The metropolis is situated in the fertile Agno River Valley. During the fifteenth century, Pangasinan have been the web site of an historical polity known as the Kaboloan. The Wangdom of Pangasinan despatched emissaries to China in 1406 to 1411. The area this is now called Dagupan changed into described as marshland thickly blanketed with mangrove and nipa palm timber. The natives lived alongside the coastline and riverbanks of Calmay, Pantal, and Bonuan. But there had been additionally communities in Malued, Lasip, Pogo, and Bacayao. The natives called the place Bacnotan which could later be integrated into the encomienda of Lingayen that became set up in 1583.