Economy and Business
Bocaue is about 27 kilometers north of Manila via the North Luzon Expressway and the Bocaue Exit (in Barangay Turo). The town is the center route for this highway that provides fast transport to Metro Manila.
Its major industry is fireworks, making it the "Fireworks Capital of the Philippines". It is also an education center in the Marilao/Sta. Maria/Balagtas municipalities area, with college education provided at St. Paul University (town center) and Dr. Yanga's Colleges Inc. & Teaching Hospital; and private high school and elementary education at St. Paul College (Turo-Igulot boundary)---like the town center university operated by the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres---, Sto Niño Academy, Integrated School of Montessori, and Jesus Is Lord College Foundation (operated by the Jesus Is Lord Church). Queen of Angels Monastery a Catholic Dominican congregation is also one of the religious sanctuary in this town. A group of religious nun is in the congregation. It is located along the MacArthur Highway Binang 1st, Bocaue, Bulacan.
A small art gallery beside the town's McDonald's restaurant called Twenty-Twenty (owned by the town's ophthalmologist and her art photographer husband) sells works by a number of Bulacan painters. Nationally-known Bocauenes in the arts include choreographer Francisca Reyes Aquino and TV actress Jewel Mische. Pro basketball player Billy Mamaril and pastor and two-time presidential candidate Eddie Villanueva are also from the town, as are Lauro Delgado, a former veteran character actor of Premiere Productions in the early 1950s, '60s and late '70s. Delgado is Loreto Porciuncula in real life who was born in Bunducan, Bocaue, Bulacan.
Bocaue is also famous for its Bocaue liempo (bacon) roast, crispy pata (cured beef brisket and shank), rellenong bangus (stuffed milkfish) and all sorts of rice cakes and embroidered Barong Tagalog and Filipininana outfit.
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