Municipality of Capas, Tarlac

Capas is a 1st class municipality in the province of Tarlac, Philippines.[1] According to the latest census, it has a population of 122,084 people in 18,333 households. The municipality contains the Capas National Shrine which was built and is maintained by the Philippine government as a memorial to the Filipino and American soldiers who died in Camp O'Donnell at the end of the Bataan Death March. This is an important site related to Veterans Day in the Philippines, every April 9, the anniversary of the surrender of the combined US and Philippine forces to the Japanese in 1942.