General Nakar , officially the Municipality of General Nakar ( Tagalog : Bayan ng Heneral Nakar , Ilocano : Ili ti Heneral Nakar ), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Quezon , Philippines . According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 34,225 people. It is the largest municipality in the province of Quezon in terms of land area, occupying 1,343.75 kilometers (834.97 mi). It is accessible by land from Metro Manila , passing through Marcos Highway (Marikina-Infanta Highway).
10-572: It was named after Major General Guillermo Peñamante Nakar (1905–1942), the martyred leader of the 1st Battalion of the 71st Infantry Division of the USAFFE against the attacking Japanese Forces and a native of barangay Anoling. In the late 1940s, the locals, headed by forester Julian Avellano Sr., initiated a petition to create the municipality. It came into fruition with the help of Tayabas's 1st district Representative Fortunato Suarez and Quezon Governor Gregorio Santayana. On July 21, 1949,
20-505: The barrios of Anoling, Banglos, Batangan, Magsikap, Maligaya, Minahan, Katablingan and Pamplona, then part of the municipality of Infanta , were separated and constituted into a new and separate municipality known as General Nakar, by virtue of Executive Order No. 246 signed by President Elpidio Quirino . General Nakar is bounded on the north by Dingalan , Aurora , west by Doña Remedios Trinidad and Norzagaray ( Bulacan ) and Rizal province, south by Infanta and Real , and east by
30-597: The Benham Rise or Plateau and Philippine Sea . General Nakar is composed of 19 barangays . Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios . Poverty incidence of General Nakar Source: Philippine Statistics Authority This article about a location in Calabarzon region is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Guillermo Nakar 1st Guerilla Regiment Guillermo Peñamante Nakar (June 10, 1906 – October 2, 1943)
40-656: The Pacific War broke out in 1941, Nakar was then a captain in the 71st Infantry Regiment of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). Stationed in northern Luzon, he was unable to join the Allied forces' war plan to retreat to Bataan due to the speedy arrival of Japanese forces in the area. Instead, he withdrew his unit into the mountains and participated in guerrilla warfare against
50-650: The country. Nakar was ultimately recognized by MacArthur as "the most prominent USAFFE officer in the northern Luzon area" and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. Nakar also published one of the first publications issued by the guerrilla movement, Matang Lawin (Hawk's Eye), which came out in mimeograph form from June to September 1942. Nakar was captured by the Japanese at his hideout in Sitio Minuri in Jones, Isabela , on September 29, 1942, after being betrayed. He
60-590: The occupiers, with his unit being renamed the First Guerrilla Regiment and later the 14th Infantry Regiment. His theater of operations included Cagayan , Isabela , Nueva Vizcaya and Pangasinan , where his unit managed to launch a raid on Dagupan . Among his exploits was his attack on the Japanese garrison and airfield in Tuguegarao , Cagayan on January 13, 1942, while the Battle of Bataan
70-899: The war, Nakar was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Conduct Star by the Philippine Army , with his widow receiving it on his behalf in 1946. The headquarters of the Southern Luzon Command of the Armed Forces of the Philippines located in Lucena was renamed in his honor in 1978. The municipality of General Nakar, Quezon was created and named in his honor in 1949. It includes Nakar's home village of Anoling and other villages carved out from its parent town of Infanta. Nakar
80-729: Was a Filipino soldier who became one of the first commanders of the guerrilla movement against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines before he was captured and executed by the Japanese in 1943. Nakar was born on June 10, 1906, in Infanta , Tayabas . He graduated from the Philippine Constabulary Academy, the forerunner of the Philippine Military Academy , in Baguio in 1932. When
90-667: Was in its early stages, which led to 100 Japanese killed and three warplanes destroyed on the ground. After communications with the Philippines were lost following the Fall of Bataan in April and that of Corregidor in May, Nakar was able to transmit a radio message to General Douglas MacArthur 's headquarters in Australia in June 1942 that confirmed the formation of an armed resistance movement in
100-553: Was taken to the main Japanese garrison in Manila at Fort Santiago and was tortured there for several months in an effort to convince him to change his allegiance to Japan. Surviving inmates testified that he continued to defy the Japanese before his execution on October 2, 1943. Douglas MacArthur considered his capture as "the first serious blow to the coordinated command" of the guerrilla movement in Northern Luzon. After
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