Calamba, Laguna
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Calamba, officially the City of Calamba, is a component city in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 575,046 people.
Mayor Ross Rizal
Banga, Calamba, Laguna, March 2023
Rizal Shrine, Calamba, Laguna, Mar 2023
View of Mt. Makiling from SM Calamba, March 2023
José Rizal
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José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was a Filipino nationalist, writer, and polymath active at the end of the Spanish colonial period of the Philippines. He is popularly considered to be a n
Calamba, Laguna
…Calamba is known to be Calabarzon's richest city because of its numerous industries. Calamba is the hometown of the de facto Philippine national hero, José Rizal. The name of the city is derived from Tagalog kalamba, meaning a wide-mouthed earthen water jar (also called balanga or banga, cf. Balanga, Bataan…
Rizal c. 1890s
Francisco Rizal Mercado (1818–1898)
Teodora Alonso Realonda (1827–1911)
Rizal, 11 years old, a student at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila