Dasol, Pangasinan

Dasol, officially the Municipality of Dasol, is a third class municipality in the province of Pangasinan, Philippines. The town got its name from the medicinal herb “dosol” which abound in the locality of during the Spanish period. The leaves of this herbal plant are greenish and oval in shape and are commonly used to cure infected wounds. Its name was frequently mispronounced as “Dasol” by the Spaniards, so that when the place was established as municipality in the 19th Century, Dasol became its official name. The town is politically subdivided into seven barrios or barangays when it was created and these were Tambobong, Tanobong, Uli, Malacapas, Bongalon, Alilao, and Poblacion.

Dasol is a popular town for the production of commercial salts. Seawater is fed into large ponds and water is drawn out through natural evaporation which allows the salt to be harvested. Dasol Bay occupies the whole coastline of Dasol and it is where the town gets its saltwater. It is a small town situated in a plateau and bounded on the north municipalities of Burgos and Mabini, the mineral-rich Zambales mountains in the east, the municipality of Infanta on the south, and the vast South China Sea on the west. It has an area of about 230 square kilometers.

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