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unusual facts about San Carlos, Pangasinan



1582 Cagayan battles

Pirate activity was residual and the commercial activity focused on Lingayen Bay, in Pangasinan, on the port of Agoo and consisted principally on the deerskin trade.

847 Naval Air Squadron

The squadron's Wessexes, together with those of 845 NAS initially operated from San Carlos and provided much needed transport support to the advance of British forces on Port Stanley, with forward operating bases being set up at Teal Inlet and Fitzroy.

Adam Tafralis

During the 2010 offseason, Tafralis worked as a trainer for John Paye at Paye's Sports Performance in San Carlos, CA.

America Is in the Heart

As a young Filipino, he once lived in the farm tended by his father, while his mother was separately living in a barrio in Binalonan, Pangasinan, together with Bulosan’s brother and sister.

Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo

In the 1960s he was a concessionaire for General Motors in Pan de Azúcar, San Carlos and Maldonado, and was a director on the board of a company producing Opel-based pick-up trucks in Pan de Azucar under the name of "Marina".

Avianca Nicaragua

Avianca Nicaragua operates scheduled services to the following domestic destinations: Bluefields, Bonanza, Corn Islands, Managua, Puerto Cabezas, Rosita, San Carlos, Siuna and Waspam.

Bravo November

While the co-pilot door was missing, the crew of Bravo November were unable to navigate or communicate with other forces, Bravo November returned to San Carlos for damage inspection.

Bugallon, Pangasinan

Chairman Fernando Alimagno filed on December 14, 2012, at the Ombudsman of the Philippines plunder case against Pangasinan Governor Amado Espino, Jr..

Communist Party of the Philippines

Jose Maria Sison, allegedly the man behind the nom de guerre Amado Guerrero, confirmed its birth at Barangay Dulacac in the tri-boundary of Alaminos, Bani and Mabini in the province of Pangasinan.

Copa Rommel Fernández

West Panama includes the districts that are over the Bridge of the Americas (Arraiján, La Chorrera, Chame and San Carlos).

Corporate Air Services HPF821

It crashed near San Carlos, Río San Juan, killing three of its four crew; the fourth, Eugene Hasenfus, had parachuted to safety, but was captured within 24 hours.

Cuyapo, Nueva Ecija

It was in 1901 during the American Civil Commission that Rosales, together with Balungao, Umingan, San Quintin, were segregated from Nueva Ecija and became parts of Pangasinan.

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.

Falkland Sound

The Spanish name "Estrecho de San Carlos" refers to the ship San Carlos which visited in 1768; confusingly the English name "San Carlos Water" is a much smaller inlet on East Falkland - and gives its name to San Carlos, Port San Carlos and the San Carlos River.

Fort Rosalie-class replenishment ship

Both ships saw service in the Falklands War, the then Fort Grange being shadowed by Argentine Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft while still 1,000 nm from the combat area and Fort Austin being attacked while sitting in San Carlos Water.

Francisco Antonino Vidal

Francisco Antonino Vidal (1825–1889) was born in San Carlos, Uruguay, in Maldonado Department, and was a senator and two-time president of Uruguay.

Hernán Menosse

Born in San Carlos, Menosse played youth football with local CA Libertad, making his senior debuts in 2007–08 season.

José Néstor Lencinas

Born in San Carlos, Mendoza, Lencinas enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires; while in law school, his adviser, Dr. Carlos Tejedor, recommended he transfer to the University of Córdoba.

Limahong

A monument of Limahong can be seen at the wharf in Barangay Lucap in Alaminos, Pangasinan.

Lingayen

Lingayen, Pangasinan, the capital of Pangasinan province, in the Philippines

Lingayen-Lucena corridor

The Lingayen-Lucena corridor is the part of Luzon in the Philippines, between Lingayen (in Pangasinan) to Lucena, comprising the province of Pangasinan, and the regions of Central Luzon, Metro Manila and CALABARZON, where national elections are claimed to be won.

Loaded march

After landing with 40 Commando at San Carlos, Holdgate accompanied British forces across the Falklands War zone taking hundreds of photographs.

My Brother, My Executioner

At a young age, Luis was taken by Don Vicente from his underprivileged mother and half-brother, Victor, who were both living in Sipnget, Rosales in Pangasinan, a province in the Philippines.

Operation Sutton

During the 1982 Falklands War, Operation Sutton was the British landings on the shores of San Carlos Water, at Ajax Bay and Port San Carlos, near the San Carlos on East Falkland.

Palaris Revolt

He was born in Barrio Coliling, San Carlos City, Pangasinan, in the year 1733, third in a family of five, with three brothers and one sister.

Palcazu River

It originates at the confluence of the Bocaz and Cacazú rivers which are born in the mountains of the mountain range of San Carlos.

Pangasinan literature

The earliest known written records in the Pangasinan language were written in the ancient Pangasinan script, a writing system related to the Tagalog Baybayin script and the Javanese Kavi script.

Reynogüelén

Reynogüelén, also spelled Reinogüelén, Reinohuelén, and Reynohuelén, was the original Mapudungun name of the eastern regions of what are now the communes of Parral in Linares Province, and Ñiquén, and San Carlos communes in the Ñuble Province of the Biobio Region of Chile.

Romulo Highway

The Romulo Highway, formerly the National Highway 13, is a highway in the Philippines that passes through the provinces of Tarlac and Pangasinan.

San Carlos Water

The settlements of San Carlos and Port San Carlos on the Water, as well as San Carlos River, all take their names from the ship San Carlos, which visited in 1768.

San Carlos, Negros Occidental

Located along the coast of Tañon Strait, the city is located at the crossroads of four major cities in the Visayas: Cebu City, Bacolod City, Iloilo City and Dumaguete City.

San Carlos, Pangasinan

Case Unclosed: Murder Informations were filed against Angelito Soriano, Cesar de Guzman (alias Kabesa) and 2 John Does on May 2, 2007 in the April 28, 2007, 10:15 p.m. assassination of San Carlos City Mayor Julian Resuello and his civilian aide inside the city plaza as he was shaking hands with the audience at the city plaza during the coronation night for the city fiesta queen during a fiesta ball.

San Carlos, Río San Juan

The Solentiname Islands in Lake Nicaragua are part of the Municipality of San Carlos.

San Carlos, Uruguay

Its name is originated from that of the King of Spain at the time, Charles III.

It was founded on October 1763 by the Spanish Governor Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, to discourage the foundation of Portuguese settlements in the region.

Sanctuario de San Juan Evangelista

Rafael S. Magno, Jr., stated that Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia covers all Pangasinan parishes (whole of northern Luzon).

On February 16, 1963, Pope Paul VI decreed the formal reconstitution of the Diocese of Lingayen into an Archdiocese covering all of Pangasinan but severing Tarlac and Nueva Ecija, while the diocese of La Union was created and separated from Nueva Segovia becoming another suffragan of Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan from 1970.

Sequoia Union High School District

The Sequoia Union High School District is a public school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily serving the communities of Atherton, Belmont, East Palo Alto, Ladera, San Carlos, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City, and Woodside.

Sison, Pangasinan

It is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Urdaneta (from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan, Archdioecesis Lingayensis-Dagupanensis, created on May 19, 1928, elevated to Archdiocese on February 16, 1963, comprising the capital of the province, 2 cities and 15 municipalities in the central part of Pangasinan; Suffragans: Alaminos, Cabanatuan, San Fernando, La Union, San Jose, Nueva Ecija and Urdaneta; Titular: St. John the Apostle and Evangelist).

Ted Lempert

He, his wife Nicole, and their three young daughters live in San Carlos, California.

Tutuban railway station

The railway was 195 kilometers long at the time of its opening on November 24, 1892, running from Manila to Dagupan City in Pangasinan.

TV Patrol North Central Luzon

The program, a tabloid-style newscast, delivers the freshest news and current affairs issues in Pangasinan and northern parts of Central Luzon (Region III) in Tagalog language.

TV Patrol North Central Luzon (formerly called TV Patrol Dagupan) is the local news network broadcast of the ABS-CBN Regional Network Group in North Central Luzon, shown in the north central Luzon provinces of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Nueva Ecija, Zambales and Aurora through ABS-CBN TV-32, TV-12, TV-13 and TV-22, respectively.


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