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| Subdivision Type: | Country | ||
| Subdivision Name: | Philippines | ||
| Subdivision Type1: | Region | ||
| Subdivision Type2: | Province | ||
| Named For: | Laureana Quijano Tinio, wife of General Manuel Tinio | ||
| Subdivision Type3: | District | ||
| Established Title: | Founded | ||
| Established Date: | January 13, 1917 | ||
| Parts Type: | Barangays | ||
| Parts Style: | para | ||
| P1: | (see Barangays) | ||
| Leader Title: | Mayor | ||
| Leader Name: | Alexander A. Daus | ||
| Leader Title1: | Vice Mayor | ||
| Leader Name1: | John Joe V. Samano | ||
| Leader Name2: | Rosanna V. Vergara | ||
| Leader Title3: | Municipal Council | ||
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| Elevation Max M: | 598 | ||
| Elevation Min M: | 58 | ||
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| Timezone: | PST | ||
| Utc Offset: | +8 | ||
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| Demographics2 Title1: | Electricity | ||
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Laur, officially the Municipality of Laur (tl|Bayan ng Laur, Ilocano: Ili ti Laur), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon region of Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 38,263 people. Laur is located at the foothills of the Sierra Madre Mountains.
Laur is from Palayan, from Manila, and from Baler.
The town got its name after the name of the wife of Gen. Manuel Tino, Laureana.
Originally, the town was a barrio of the municipality of Bongabon, named San Esteban, after its patron saint, Stephen I of Hungary. Immigrating settlers of the community were mostly Tagalog and Ilocanos from the provinces of Ilocos Region and Pangasinan with some Kapampangans from the provinces of Pampanga and Tarlac.[1]
On January 13, 1917, via Executive Order No. 98 by then Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison, Laur was separated as its own town from Bongabon, and named from the wife of Gen. Manuel Tinio, Laureana. Gen. Tinio himself will have the town of Papaya named after him, as "General Tinio" in 1957. Laur borders General Tinio to the south.
Senators Benigno Aquino, Jr. and Jose W. Diokno were kept in solitary confinement for exactly thirty days in 1973 within Fort Magsaysay in Laur. It is now a museum and houses the AFP Center for Human Rights Dialogue.[2]
Laur is politically subdivided into 17 barangays. Each barangay consist of puroks and some have sitios.
See main article: Sangguniang Bayan. Past Mayors of Laur are as follows: