Calapan

American  

[kah-lah-pahn] / ˌkɑ lɑˈpɑn /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Very violent earthquake which damaged considerably the church and convento at Calapan, these being the only masonry buildings in the town.

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.

The first convent established at Baco is later moved to Calapan.

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