Guagua

Guagua is a town in southwestern . A municipality created from the merger of four settlements, it is best known for the woodcarving traditions and intricately painted interior of the colonial-era parish church of Betis district, although the rest…
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  • Type: Town with 138,000 residents
  • Description: municipality of the Philippines in the province of Pampanga
  • Also known as: “Guagua, Pampanga”, “Municipality of Guagua”, and “Wáwâ”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guagua National Colleges and Betis Church.

College
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often called GNC is a private, non-sectarian Catholic school in Guagua, , . It offers primary, secondary, and tertiary education. The school was founded by Fr. Nicanor M. Banzali, a former parish priest of Guagua.

Church
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Santiago Apostol Parish Church, commonly known as , is a Baroque-style church located in the Betis District of Guagua in , under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Fernando.

Town hall
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is a town hall.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bacolor and Santa Rita.

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is a town in , the Philippines. Formerly the provincial capital, it was devastated by lahar flows from the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo but has since recovered with the help of renewed interest in its ruined state.

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is a town in southwestern , Philippines. It is a quiet agricultural town bypassed by the province's major highways.

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, officially the Municipality of , is a municipality in the province of , . According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 190,355 people.

Guagua

Latitude
14.9654° or 14° 57′ 56″ north
Longitude
120.6336° or 120° 38′ 1″ east
Population
138,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
7Q62XJ8M+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 945768937
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1712628
Wiki­data ID
Q55702
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In Other Languages

From Amis to Zulu—“Guagua” goes by many names.
  • Amis: “Guagua”
  • Aragonese: “Guagua”
  • Asturian: “Guagua”
  • Balinese: “Guagua”
  • Banjar: “Guagua”
  • Basque: “Guagua”
  • Batak Toba: “Guagua”
  • Buginese: “Guagua”
  • Capiznon: “Guagua”
  • Catalan: “Guagua”
  • Cebuano: “Guagua”
  • Cebuano: “Lungsod sa Guagua”
  • Cebuano: “lungsod sa Wa·wà”
  • Cebuano: “lungsod sa Waʼwaʼ”
  • Central Bikol: “Guagua, Pampanga”
  • Central Bikol: “Guagua”
  • Chavacano: “Guagua, Pampanga”
  • Chavacano: “Guagua”
  • Chinese: “瓜瓜”
  • Dagbani: “Guagua”
  • Danish: “Guagua”
  • Dutch: “Guagua”
  • Esperanto: “Guagua”
  • Esperanto: “Gŭagŭo”
  • Esperanto: “Ŭaŭo”
  • Esperanto: “Vavo”
  • Extremaduran: “Guagua”
  • Fijian: “Guagua”
  • Filipino: “Guagua”
  • French: “Guagua”
  • Georgian: “გვაგვა”
  • German: “Guagua”
  • Gorontalo: “Guagua”
  • Hausa: “Guagua”
  • Hiligaynon: “Guagua”
  • Hindi: “वावा”
  • Hiri Motu: “Guagua”
  • Igbo: “Guagua”
  • Iloko: “Guagua, Pampanga”
  • Iloko: “Guagua”
  • Indonesian: “Guagua, Pampanga”
  • Indonesian: “Guagua”
  • Indonesian: “Wawak”
  • Irish: “Guagua”
  • Italian: “Guagua”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Guagua”
  • Japanese: “グアグア”
  • Javanese: “Guagua”
  • Kinaray-A: “Guagua”
  • Kongo: “Guagua”
  • Korean: “과과”
  • Lao: “ວາວະ”
  • Malagasy: “Guagua”
  • Malay: “Guagua”
  • Maori: “Guagua”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guagua”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “偎岸”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “瓦瓦”
  • Minangkabau: “Guagua”
  • Nauru: “Guagua”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guagua (Pampanga)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guagua”
  • Norwegian: “Guagua”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guagua”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Guagua”
  • Oromo: “Guagua”
  • Paiwan: “Guagua”
  • Pampanga: “balen ning Wáwâ”
  • Pampanga: “Guagua”
  • Pampanga: “Wáwâ”
  • Pangasinan: “Guagua, Pampanga”
  • Pangasinan: “Guagua”
  • Polish: “Guagua”
  • Portuguese: “Guagua”
  • Rinconada Bikol: “Guagua”
  • Russian: “Гуагуа”
  • Sakizaya: “Guagua”
  • Samoan: “Guagua”
  • Scots: “Guagua”
  • Spanish: “Guagua de la Pampanga”
  • Spanish: “Guagua”
  • Sundanese: “Guagua”
  • Swahili: “Guagua”
  • Swedish: “Guagua”
  • Tagalog: “Bayan ng Guagua”
  • Tagalog: “bayan ng Wa-wa”
  • Tagalog: “Guagua, Pampanga”
  • Tagalog: “Guagua”
  • Tagalog: “Munisipalidad ng Guagua”
  • Tagalog: “Munisipyo ng Guagua”
  • Tahitian: “Guagua”
  • Thai: “วาวะ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Guagua”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуагуа”
  • Urdu: “گواگوا”
  • Urdu: “واوا”
  • Vietnamese: “Guagua, Pampanga”
  • Vietnamese: “Guagua”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guagua, Pampanga”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guagua”
  • Welsh: “Guagua”
  • Xhosa: “Guagua”
  • Yoruba: “Guagua”
  • Zulu: “Guagua”
  • “Guagua”
  • “Guagua, Pampanga”

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