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Encyclopedia Britannica



LINGAYEN

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 729 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LEO-LOB
LINGAYEN , a town and the
capital
  of the province of Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, about Ito m. N. by W. of Manila, on the S. shore of the Gulf of Lingayen, and on a low and fertile
island
  in the
delta
  of the Agno river. Pop. (1903) 21,529. It has good government buildings, a fine
church
  and plaza, the provincial high school and a girls' school conducted by Spanish Dominican friars. The climate is cool and healthy. The
chief
 
industries
  are the cultivation of
rice
  (the most important crop of the surrounding country), fishing and the making of nipa-wine from the juice of the nipa palm, which grows abundantly in the neighbouring swamps. The
principal
  language is Pangasinan; Ilocano is also spoken.


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