Rosales

Rosales, officially the Municipality of Rosales, (Pangasinan: Baley na Rosales; Ilokano: Ili ti Rosales; Tagalog: Bayan ng Rosales), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 63,081 people.^[3]

It is sometimes called as Carmen, based on its prominent barangay of the same name (now split into two barangays). Rosales was created as a separate municipality through a Royal Decree in 1852. It was named in honor of Don Antonio Rosales.

Philippine National Author and internationally renowned novelist Francisco Sionil Josè has set a monument to the town he grew up in with his five-novels-series The Rosales Saga. The town itself is dotted with ancestral houses and heritage structures deemed as important cultural sites via the National Cultural Heritage Act.

Rosales is a junction town for those travelling between the provinces of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija to the other towns of Pangasinan. Its local economy is considered as one of the best in Pangasinan with the opening of the first SM mall in Pangasinan called SM City Rosales. Rosales will be last interchange of Phase 1 of the Tarlac-Pangasinan-La Union Expressway (TPLEX).

Rosales is 171 kilometres (106 mi) from Manila and is 70 kilometres (43 mi) from the provincial capital, Lingayen.

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