Calapan

American  

[kah-lah-pahn] / ˌkɑ lɑˈpɑn /

noun

1. a seaport on NE Mindoro, in the central Philippines.

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Example Sentences

Just two mornings before July 4, the first anniversary of Philippine independence, the citizens of Calapan, capital of Mindoro province, awoke to find their town invaded and occupied by local revolutionists.

From Time Magazine Archive

On Saturday in Calapan, Marcos wore a large bandage on his left hand and adhesive strips on his right.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very violent earthquake which ruined part of the church at Calapan.

From Catalogue of Violent and Destructive Earthquakes in the Philippines With an Appendix: Earthquakes in the Marianas Islands 1599-1909 by Saderra Masó, Miguel

Calapan, the capital of Mindoro, was in Spanish days known as "the white man's grave" on account of the prevalence of "pernicious fever" there.

From The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) by Worcester, Dean C.

In that district they formed the villages of Calapan, Baco, Suban, Ylog, Minolo, and Camoròn, with a number of annexed villages or visitas.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Blair, Emma Helen