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BINMALEY, a municipality (with administration centre and 18 barrios or districts), of the province of Pangasinan, Luzon, Philippine Islands, on the delta of the Agno river, about 5m. W. of Dagupan which has railway connections with Manila. Pop. (1918), 18,243, of whom 9,140 were males and none white. L has important fisheries, and manufactures salt, pottery, thatch (made of nipa palm leaves) and nipa wine. Rice and coconuts are the principal agricultural products.

In 1918 it had 546 household industry establishments with out put valued at 102,200 pesos, and 25 schools, of which nine were public.

The language is Pangasinan.

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