Cabanatuan City is a city in Nueva Ecija, the rice granary of the Philippines.
Cabanatuan served as the economic center of Nueva Ecija, and an major stopover to Cagayan Valley.
The city once formed a barrio of the then-municipality of Gapan during the Spanish colonial period. During the Philippine–American War, Antonio Luna was murdered here by a member of his battalion who have a grudge against him. The city also served as a battleground for one of the major encounters in the Philippines at the end of World War II, the raid at Cabanatuan, better remembered in the Hollywood film The Great Raid. Cabanatuan served as the capital of Nueva Ecija until the new capital is established at Palayan.
The city has tricycles the most popular mode of transportation, and there are more than 30,000 in the city, giving its nickname "Tricycle Capital of the Philippines".
The city has its reputation for very hot summer days, making it one of the hottest cities in the Philippines after Tuguegarao in Cagayan Valley. The climate is the usual tropical climate influenced by the monsoon, but its inland location further gave the possibility of extremely hot temperatures, enough to give you heat stroke on a short walk. Daytime highs usually fall in the 30s and does not fall below it. The highest temperature to record is a 40.4C, and heat indexes above 50C are not uncommon during the dry season.
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N E Pacific Mall, Maharlika Highway. 9AM-9PM.
Puregold Supermarket, Maharlika Highway. 8AM-9PM.
Robinsons Mall & Robinsons Supermarket, Maharlika Hi-way. 9AM-9PM.
SM City Mall & Savemore Supermarket, Maharlika Hi-way. 10AM-9PM.
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