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unusual facts about Salcedo, Ilocos Sur

Andrés de Isasi, 1st Marquis of Barambio

Born in Barambio, Vitoria-Gasteiz, son of Pedro de Isasi y de Orúe, de Perea y de Zulueta and wife and cousin Manuela de Zulueta y de Salcedo, de Lezameta y Ugarte and a first cousin of Julián de Zulueta, 1st Marquis of Álava.

Battle of Tirad Pass

By November 30, March and his men, in haste to catch the Philippine president, marched through Candon, Santo Tomas, La Union and Salcedo, Ilocos Sur.

Carlos Salcedo

On March 8, 2013, Salcedo made his professional soccer debut with Real Salt Lake against the New England Revolution.

Domingo Salcedo

José Domingo Salcedo González (born 9 November 1983 in Concepción) is a Paraguayan football midfielder currently playing for Cerro Porteño.

DWGD-TV

It was only 2008 when the station was converted to an originating GMA station in Pangasinan, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Aurora, Zambales, Benguet, La Union, Ifugao, Mountain Province and Northern Parts of Ilocos Sur are Tagudin, Suyo, Alilem, Sugpon and Cervantes.

Bombo Radyo Vigan provides news, public service, drama and music for radio listeners in Vigan City, and the province of Abra (in the Cordilleras) and Ilocos Sur, though its signal can be received as far as San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte to the north and the northernmost portion of province of La Union, even Sual, Pangasinan, to the south.

Franklin Tenorio

Franklin Bolívar Tenorio Ramón (born June 30, 1969 in Salcedo, Cotopaxi) is an Ecuadorian long-distance and marathon runner.

Guane

The Filipinos worked the huge tobacco plantations much as they did in their home country, in the present provinces of Ilocos Sur, Tarlac, Ilocos Norte, Cagayan and Isabela.

Ilocos Sur

Some illustrious Filipino and Ilocanos among whom were Pedro Bukaneg, the Father of Ilocano literature; Diego Silang, the first Filipino emancipator; Josefa Gabriela Silang, the Filipino Joan of Arc; Dr. José Burgos, the Father of Filipino nationalism; Leona Florentino, the Ilocano poetess; Ventura de los Reyes, the first Filipino delegate to the Spanish Cortez; Mena Crisólogo, the Ilocano Shakespeare; Isabelo de los Reyes, the Father of Filipino socialism and unionism; Msgr.

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Churches - most notable of these churches include the Vigan Cathedral (which is the seat of eva Segovia, and where the remains of the Ilocano poet Leona Florentino is interred), Santa Maria Church (which is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list), Candon Church (has a grand facade and is famous for its tall bell tower and the longest painting in the Philippines) and Sinait Church (which houses the miraculous Statue of the Black Nazarene).

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His mother, Leona Florentino was the most outstanding Filipino woman writer of the Spanish era.

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In 1854, the province of La Unión was created out of the towns that had heretofore belonged to Ilocos Sur and Pangasinan.

Ilocos Sur's 1st legislative district special election, 2011

The special election was called after incumbent representative Ronald Singson resigned on March 7, 2011 after being convicted of drug possession by the Wan Chai District Court in Hong Kong.

Jaime David Fernández Mirabal

Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal (born in Salcedo, Hermanas Mirabal, Dominican Republic on October 15, 1956) was Vice President of Dominican Republic on the first Government of the Dominican Liberation Party in the period of 1996 to 2000.

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Among his career as a doctor, he has worked in Cambita Garabitos in San Cristobal, in Rancho Español and Las Galeras, Samana in the Clinic Rural Montellano Salcedo Hospital, both located in Salcedo.

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Jaime David made his primary and secondary in Salcedo, and later at the Instituto Superior de Agricultura (English: Higher Institute of Agriculture) (ISA), studying agronomy, and time after graduating from his bachelor was moved to the city of Santo Domingo, where he decided to study medicine at the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC).

José Antonio Salcedo

On October 15, 1864, Head of State Salcedo sent word to his wife (who lived in Guayubín) with a young soldier who was nearly in his mid-twenties named Ulises Heureaux, he was later murdered on the same day by Gaspar Polanco, also a general at the time.

José Ulises Macías Salcedo

José Ulises Macías Salcedo, Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hermosillo, was born in León, Guanajuato, Mexico, on October 29, 1940.

Julián de Zulueta, 1st Marquis of Álava

Born in Anúcita, Álava, son of Domingo Timoteo de Zulueta y de Salcedo, de Lezameta y Ugarte and wife Manuela Estefania de Amondo y Barañano and a first cousin of Andrés de Isasi, 1st Marquis of Barambio.

Leopoldo Salcedo

Salcedo's most famous role came in 1961, when he starred as the titular character in Gerry de Leon's The Moises Padilla Story, a film biography of a Negros Occidental mayoral candidate who in 1951, was tortured and murdered by the private army of the provincial governor after he had refused to withdraw his candidacy.

Llanganates National Park

The park can be accessed from a number of directions, but visitors usually come by way of towns like Salcedo, Patate, Pillaro, Baños, and Rio Verde.

Luis Mariñas

At 19 he began working in the studios of TVE in Prado del Rey, Madrid, with Victoriano Fernández Assisi, Jesus Alvarez and Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo.

Manuel María de Salcedo

Salcedo was overthrown by Juan Bautista de las Casas in January 1811 and imprisoned for several months in Monclova.

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After he persuaded his captor, Ignacio Elizondo, to switch allegiances, Salcedo assisted in capturing documents detailing the movements of Miguel Hidalgo's army.

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During his captivity, Salcedo had been slowly enticing Ignacio Elizondo (his captor), with promises of a promotion and other rewards if he would renounce his revolutionary tendencies.