Directories On the western reaches of Tarlac Province lies the historic town of Camiling. Early in the eighteenth century, this thriving community was a sitio of Paniqui, contrary to the popular belief that it was a part of Bayambang, Pangasinan. The discovery of a Spanish document in attested to the fact that inhabitants of Camiling paid their tributes to Paniqui.
In the beginning, the community was a vast area of cogon growth interposed with thick forestalls areas stretching far as the Zambales mountain ranges. A wide river cut peacefully through it. With the passage of time, these settlers moved to the opposite shore considering that most often, disastrous floods were visiting the present site.
In , Camiling became an independent town, formally separated from the town of Paniqui and with Don Vicente Galsim as the first Governadorcillo. Thirty-eight 38 others followed him. Don Buenaventura Torres was the last to serve under the Spanish regime and the first Presidente Municipal under the Revolutionary Government by Aguinaldo. Of historical importance, the Camiling Catholic Convent was the death place of Gen.
Pedro Pedroche and his men for being accused as rebels. Camiling is a first class municipality in the western part of the province of Tarlac in the Philippines. It is about kilometers north-northwestern of Manila, and about 50 kilometers south-southwest of Dagupan City of Pangasinan. It is the commercial center of an area composed of about eight 8 towns, and borders the Province of Pangasinan.
It is he gateway to central and western Pangasinan through the Romulo-Highway former Highway Ignacia and Mayantoc to the south and Paniqui by the east.
