Country Philippines Founded February 10, 1908 Time zone PST (UTC+8) Local time Wednesday 3:36 PM | Region Ilocos (Region I) Barangays Area 12.99 km² Province Pangasinan | |
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District 5th district of Pangasinan Weather 34°C, Wind SE at 14 km/h, 48% Humidity | ||
Santo Tomas is a 5th class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 15,022 people.
Contents
- Map of Santo Tomas Tarlac Philippines
- Barangays
- St Thomas Aquinas Parish Church
- Guinness World Records
- References
Map of Santo Tomas, Tarlac, Philippines
The town's principal products are palay, yellow corn, coconut, tobacco, poultry and livestock.
Barangays
Santo Tomas is politically subdivided into 10 barangays.
St. Thomas Aquinas Parish Church
The 1973 St. Thomas Aquinas Parish (F-1973) Church (Barangay Santo Domingo) is under the Vicariate of Sacred Heart (Vicar Forane is Father Hurley John S. Solfelix. Its Feast Day is January 28 and Parish Priest is Father Alejandro T. De Guzman, Vicariate of Sto. Tomas de Aquino, of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan. As a parish, Santo Tomas was erected on March 15, 1974 by Archbishop Federico Limon consecrated the Church on March 15, 1974, since before, Santo Tomas Church was merely a "visita” or chapel of Alcala, Pangasinan, while the town was a barrio of Alcala (from 1898 until the 1901 fusion with Alcala), with former name of Arango (“inarang”, fresh water shells at Agno River).
Before 1898, Santo Tomas was a barrio of Alcala. Arango was its name as a barrio, Such a name derived from “inarang”, a name given to the fresh water shells which abound near the bank of the Agno river. Santo Tomas was recreated as a town in 1908.
Guinness World Records
On February 11, 2008, during first Corn Festival of the centennial celebration, Santo Tomas got the Guinness World Records certificate for longest barbecue (3,803.96 metres (12,480.2 ft)). Residents grilled 93,540 glutinous corn on the 1,559 metres (5,115 ft) long grills (each interconnected grill measured 2.4 meters), traversing its 10 barangays. Santo Tomas' longest barbecue record beat the previous record of 1,493.2 metres (4,899 ft) set in Montevideo, Uruguay (grilled red meat).
On February 11, 2009, Santo Tomas' Second Corn Festival's 200-meter (stretch of the street) corn grill was held for its 101st founding anniversary. at it previously held its 2007 Santo Tomas Corn Festival.
In the "Agew na Pangasinan 2012 Street Dancers Showdown", April 11, 2012 Pangasinan Day amid the Float Parade and Street Dancing Contest, Santo. Tomas Street Dancers demonstrated their Guinness entry: “the biggest grill in the world”. On the 2012 Corn Festival, March 26, Sto. Tomas, Pangasinan grilled 6,000 ears of corn for the town’s 103rd founding anniversary yesterday.