Caloocan

[kal-uh-oh-kahn, kah-law-aw-kahn]

noun

1. a city in the Philippines, on SW Luzon.

Example Sentences

He was speaking to the BBC at his cathedral in Caloocan, on the outskirts of the Philippine capital Manila.

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Police concluded at the time that the bloodbath in a riverside shantytown in Caloocan city in the Manila metropolis was set off by a drug gang war.

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Maria Tinao, 16, a high school student in the city of Caloocan, said she was always disillusioned about politics, believing officials had joined government just to enrich themselves.

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During a mass on Feb. 8 at his diocese in Caloocan, he gave his blessing over the decision of its lay leaders to support Robredo.

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Then he starts pedaling south toward downtown from his home in Caloocan City, a part of metro Manila — a journey that takes him under train tracks, into drainage culverts and across chaotic intersections.

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