Doña Remedios Trinidad

The town was named by President Ferdinand Marcos after Remedios Trinidad Romuáldez, mother of his wife, First Lady Imelda Romualdez Marcos, whose family was from Baliuag, Bulacan.

On September 13, 1977, under martial rule, President Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 1196, creating the municipality of Doña Remedios Trinidad as a gift to his wife's family. The municipality covers seven barangays: Pulong Sampaloc and Camachile from Angat; Bayabas and Kabayunan from Norzagaray; and Talbac, Camachin and Kalawakan from San Miguel.^[6]

Historians have noted that Marcos named towns after people without little historical significance, and only family ties as an actual reason.^[7] Some locals have also called for a renaming of the town to honor actual heroes from Bulacan.

On the afternoon of December 4, 2000, Mayor Paulino Esteban was being driven in his Nissan Patrol by his 19-year-old nephew Jim Venturina and accompanied by police escort Teofilo Avellanosa when they were shot and killed by gunmen in Barangay Baybay, Angat, Bulacan.^[8][9][10]

Doña Remedios Trinidad is the largest municipality in Bulacan, occupying almost one-third of the total land area of the province. It lies on the southern edge of the Sierra Madre mountain range, and partially embraces three major conservation areas: the Angat Watershed Forest Reserve, Biak-na-Bato National Park, and Doña Remedios–General Tinio Watershed Forest Reserve, comprising 327.3 km² (126.4 sq mi) of alienable and disposable public land.

Doña Remedios Trinidad is bordered by Norzagaray, Bulacan to the south; by General Nakar, Quezon and Dingalan, Aurora to the east; San Rafael, Angat, San Ildefonso, and San Miguel to the west; and Gapan and General Tinio, Nueva Ecija to the north. It is 53 kilometres (33 mi) from Malolos and 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Manila.

In the 2020 census, the population of Doña Remedios Trinidad was 28,656 people,^[18] with a density of 31 inhabitants per square kilometre or 80 inhabitants per square mile.

Doña Remedios Trinidad is the least populated of all the municipalities and cities of Bulacan, with less than one percent of the province's population.

Poverty incidence of Doña Remedios Trinidad

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority^{[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]}

Municipality of Doña Remedios Trinidad is a mainly agricultural town. Agricultural products, such as pineapples, are the main source of income of the town and its residents.

On December 12, 2007, the Province of Bulacan and the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) signed an agreement for the development of an P11-billion bulk water supply project. Ayala-owned Manila Water Co. Inc. will implement the project. MWSS and Manila Water will provide a financial package of an infrastructure grant, a P10-million development assistance and a P10-million royalty fee to the towns of Norzagaray and Doña Remedios Trinidad, which will host the water supply project.^[27]

The Doña Remedios Trinidad Schools District Office governs all educational institutions within the municipality. It oversees the management and operations of all private and public, from primary to secondary schools.^[28]

One of the main secondary schools in DRT is the Laura De Leon Halili High School, located in Barangay Pulong Sampaloc. Most of the students in this school come from three barangays of DRT (Pulong Sampaloc, Camachile, and Bayabas) and some from the adjacent barangay of Banaban in Angat. The San Ildefonso-based Bulacan Agricultural State College opened a branch campus as Bulacan Agricultural State College-DRT located in Barangay Sapang Bulak.

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  D.R.T. Welcome Arch
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  D.R.T. Police Station and Office of the Sangguniang Bayan
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  D.R.T.'s 33rd year founding anniversary marker
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  Rural Bank of D.R.T., Inc.
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  Pulong Sampaloc Barangay Hall
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  Puning Cave