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| blank2_name = • Expenses | blank2_info = | blank3_name = • Assets | blank3_info = | blank_name_sec1 = Economy | blank_info_sec1 = First Class (since July 1, 1996) | website = | footnotes = Earliest date that the barrio known to be existed. The date when the Dominicans obtained the hacienda from the Crown of Spain. }} Santa María (or Sta. Maria), officially known as the Municipality of Santa Maria (Filipino: ''Bayan ng Santa Maria'') (ISO: PH-BUL; PSGC: 031423000〔(NSCB - ActiveStats - PSGC Interactive - Municipality: SANTA MARIA )〕) is a first class highly urban municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. It is the most populous municipality in Central Luzon and the 6th most populous in the Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 218,351 inhabitants in 48,946 households,〔 or 7.5% of the total population of Bulacan. During the 1970s, Santa Maria was a little-known rustic area north of Metro Manila, with a rural economy that were still largely dependent on basic agriculture and family-owned enterprises for livelihood. The influence of commercialization and industrialization slowly took shape with the entry of local and foreign investors who were instrumental in the rapid economic and social transformation of the municipality. Today, it enjoys the status of being the financial, commercial, and industrial centre of eastern Bulacan. It has the highest concentration of business establishments and industrial parks in the area. Santa Maria also boasts of having the 4th highest number of financial institutions in the province having 28 banks with a total deposits amounting to PHP 14.75 billion.〔http://www.pdic.gov.ph/files/BSDStats/DDD_PBS_ProvinceMunicipality.htm PHILIPPINE DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION〕 The municipality also houses the largest car battery manufacturing plant in the Philippines〔http://www.ramcartechnology.com/about.htm〕 which is located inside the Santa Maria Industrial Park. Aside for being the richest municipality in Central Luzon with an income of PHP 470 million,〔http://www.blgf.gov.ph/downloads/lgudata/fiscaldata/FISCALDATA2013.xls BLGF 2013〕 it is also one of the fastest growing local government unit (LGU) in the country and it is considered by the National Competitiveness Council of the Philippines as the most competitive LGU in Bulacan. Santa Maria is also one of the 21 municipalities, informally called the "League of 21", that have met the requirements for cityhood set by the Constitution and Local Government Code of the Republic of the Philippines and as agreed upon by the League of Cities of the Philippines. The municipality is not only proud of its physical asset, political stability, and progressive economy, but also proud of having a son in the person of Jose Corazon de Jesus, the incomparable poet, the one and only "''Huseng Batute''", who started composing his verse as a child and nationally recognized later, next to Francisco Balagtas in order of time, as the "King of Poets". Another is Francisco Santiago, the composer who left among as his legacies, the immortal "''Nasaan Ka Irog''" and other famous songs. == History == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Santa Maria, Bulacan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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