CAPANGPANGAN
The first eastern barangay from the poblacion is Capangpangan, which was so called because supposedly, the first settlers in the area originated from the province of Pampanga. These settlers were also leather craftsmen (agkurkurti ti lalat) who may somehow have also been into the pagpartian business. They gathered the skin of the slaughtered animals (e.g. cows, carabaos), dried and made these into knife holsters and beaded slippers.
Understandably, the first Capangpangan settlers chose the river banks area (eastern side of the northern tip of the Mestizo River) because their livelihood activity necessitated so. Washing of the animal skin could be done in the river and the banks could be used to dry them. Likewise, the riverbanks abounded with camachile trees which barks were used in curing the leather. Besides, this location was far enough to bother the city’s residential center with polluting smell associated with the craft.
Leather craft in Capangpangan lasted until the 1960’s. It eventually became extinct with the onslaught of cheaper factory-manufactured slippers. At present, many Capangpangan residents are into meat processing, like the residents of the neighboring Pagpartian.
The originally small settlement has also become one of the most congested and densely-populated non-poblacion barangays of Vigan.
BARANGAY NAGSANGALAN
Nagsangalan is bounded on the north by San Julian East, Bantay; on the east by Purok a Bassit; on the west by San Jose; and on the south by Bongtolan.
The barangay is situated in a piece of territory where one could find a big road crossing during the olden days. This was a place where bamboo grooves grew on both sides of the road so it earned the name “Kinawayanan”.
When the Spaniards had already implanted the catholic faith in Vigan about the end of the sixteenth century, some natives of the village were hired as “fiscales” to serve in the convent of the parish church in the poblacion. A fiscal was one who assisted the parish priest in his daily activities like ringing the bells, and making schedules for marriage, baptism, funerals and the like. It is for this reason that the barrio, at a certain period was called “Cafiscalan.”
West of the barrio road crossing were a number of families who were makers of white squash hats called “cat-tucong” in the dialect. The people of this place was gifted with artistic ability that people from other regions marveled at that craftsmanship displayed by the makers of the white squash hats. It was on this account that the place was named “Cacat-tucongan” at certain epoch of the history of the village.
Several names were given to the different sections of the village. As a whole it was called “Nagsangalan” or “Nagcorosan” in the dialect.
CABAROAN
Cabaroan is bounded on the north by Nagsangalan; on the east by Bongtolan; on the west by Cabalangegan; and on the south by camangaan. It is at present divided into two Barangays namely: Cabaroan Daya and Cabaroan Laud. But in as much as the origin of the name is the main purpose of this study, the two Barangays are studied as one.
As early as the founding of Vigan by Captain Juan de Salcedo, the village was inhabited by Tinggians (Itnegs) who were industrious and peace-loving people. They were farmers and they produced rootcrops like peanuts, camotes, singkamas, and togi in the dialect.
The place was sparely populated at the time so that the governadorcillo (mayor) of Vigan wanted develop the place by inviting people from densely populated areas to settle there. A family was given an area to cultivate so that the Itnegs were displaced by the new settlers. Many settled in the place in the later years and became prosperous. Roads and trails were built and village government was established. The place then became the newest and the youngest village of the Mestizo River at that time. And it came to be called “Cabaroan”, which means newest in English.
Almost oof the families have farmlands to cultivate where they planted rice, corn, root crops and vegetables. Aside from being farmers, the inhabitants are also weaver of Ilocano cloth.
BARANGAY RUGSUANAN
Rugsuanan is bounded on the north by Raois and Purok a Dackel; on the east by Raois; on the west by Purok a dackel; and on thesouth by Nagpanawan, Santa.
The name of the place can be traced as far back at the time when the Abra River was still very active, navigable and destructive. It was then the “Huang Ho” of Ilocandia where many lives were losts and properties destroyed when the river overflowed its banks. Santa, Vigan and Caoyan experienced the adverse effects of its annual floods, so that several hectares of lands were washed away by the river’s turbulent waters.
In the municipality of Caoayan, for example, a barrio by the name of Nalasin, was eroded so that its inhabitants had to move to safer grounds located near Barangay Raois in Vigan. This place in subsequent years was named “Nagtupacan” which in English means a place where a group of people settled simultaneously and suddenly.
The people of Nagtupacan were happy and contented, because in the first place, the people will not be bothered by the yearly floods anymore caused by the turbulent waters of the Abra River, and secondly, the people had found god sources of livelihood, like fishing, farming and weaving. Prosperity reigned in the barrio which adjacent villages envied, so that the inhabitants decided spent a special day for thanksgiving to the Almighty. This feeling of contentment and happiness (rugso in Iloco) was the basis of naming the barrio “Rugsanan” which all the people of the place acceded.
It is true that the barangay does not have large tracts of agricultural land to cultivate; but the people are compensated through their involvement in various occupational pursuits like weaving, fishing, retail business and small scale farming.
BARANGAY PONG-OL
Pong-ol is bounded on the north by Paratong, on the east by Salindeg, on the west by Barraca, on the south by the Manangat River,a branch of the Caoyan River.
The barangay was a busy sub-port of Vigan during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is to be called that a British frigate anchored at Pong-ol, and a representative of Governor dawsonne Drake landed and handed a letter to Diego Silang appointing him as governor of the Ilocos in 1762.
Information had it when a ship just arrived at the port, a man had to blow a horn just to make people know that laborers are needed to help in the unloading of the ship cargoes. The blowing of the horn had a connection to the meaning of the village.
One day, a squad of Spanish civil guards patrolled the place. They saw a man holding a horn and asked him about the name of the village. The man did not understand Spanish so he thought that the Spaniards were asking him to blow his horn; so he did it. As he was blowing his horn, the dogs barked. The patrol leader then decided that the sound (pong) caused by the blowing of the horn and the barking (ol-ol) of the dogs would be the basis in naming the village. The Spaniards then, named it Pong-ol.
Presently, the port had disappeared and the navigable river is already dry, thereby depriving the male inhabitants of their profitable occupation – ship navigation.
PUROK A BASSIT AND PUROK A DACKEL
The two Barangays are bounded on the north by san Isidro; on the west by a wide tract of land belonging to the Municipality of Bantay, on the east by Raois and on the south by a wide area of land, a portion of which belongs to the Municipality of Caoayan.
During the Spanish period, when the village of Purok was not still divided into two, the eastern section was more populous than the western part. Literact rate was high in the eastern section, so that this fact might have been the reason why heads of the barangay (cabezas de barangay) were chosen from that place. There was a time when the said section was called taga-Pajo, because one of the most popular cabezas de barangay, Don Cleto pajo, was a resident of that section of the village.
Time came when the population of the village became bigger and life became more progressive. They found time to relax by spending on merriment, besides thanking the Lord for their growing prosperity. But as the village, during those times, was far from the main municipal road, the inhabitants of the Pajo section decided to move to another section of the village which was more accessible to the municipal road, thus giving more facility to travel to and from the place. The section where Pajo folks established their residence came to be called Purok a Bassit, a village that was carved out from the mother village, Purok a Dakkel.
CABALANGEGAN
Cabalangegan is bounded on the north by San Julian Sur, on the east by Cabaroan laud; on the west by Mestizo River, and on the south by Beddeng laud.
The name, Cabalangegan, as some people claimed, was not derived from the name of a plant called “balangeg” in the dialect, which grows abundantly in fresh water, ponds or lakes. The name Cabalangegan came from the name of an underground root called “Camangeg”. How the name of the village originated, it came about this way:
During the Spanish regime, when the Spaniards already established their government in Ilocos, the inhabitants of the village now called Cabalangegan were industrious, peace-loving and courageous. They could be distinguished from the people of other villages because of a very special weapon they possessed which is called “palsuot”, in the dialect. The “palsuot”, bamboo gun, has a barrel of about one and a half feet long which has a bore of about one half inch in diameter. It is equipped with a bamboo rod which is inserted in the hole and it is used to push the bullet made from “camangeg” out the hole.
Camangeg grew abundantly on that place during the Spanish times and people of the surrounding village were unanimous in calling it “camangeg”. The name had been used for several decades. But time came when the people changed the name into “cabalangegan” to have facility in pronouncing it.
BONGTOLAN
Bongtolan is bounded on the north by Cabaroan Daya, on the east by Nansuagao, on the west by a large area of land, and on the south by Camangaan.
Like other villages of Vigan, Bongtolan has no official name not until the Spaniards had established theor governmental machinery in Ilocandia under the leadership of the “Hernando Cortez” of the Philippines, Captain Juan de Salcedo.
It was summer time when the Spanish civil guards busied themselves patrolling the suburbs of Salcedo’s captain town that they came upon a village which was quite opposed to Spanish conquest. The villagers were angered with the behavior of the Spanish civil guards because oftentimes, the guards get food like fowls, eggs, vegetables and fruits from them. In order to show their displeasure against the bad acts of the Civil Guards, the natives of the place agreed to do something that would irritate the foreign intruders. So, one day, some of the men of the place climbed the trees along the trails which led to the center of the village with dried earth balls (bingkol in Iloco) in their hands. They threw down the earth balls on the heads of the soldiers as they passed by, injuring some of the unhelmeted ones. Many were arrested and tortured so the arrogant acts of the natives were removed. Through the advice of the Ilocanos closed to the Spanish authorities in Vigan, the place was named “Uluan”, because the main target of the natives were the soldiers’ heads.
BARANGAY BEDDENG
Beddeng at present is divided into two barangays: Beddeng Daya and Beddeng Laud. Beddeng, as a whole is bounded on the north by Camangaan and a branch of the Mestiizo River, and on the south by Naguilian, Caoayan.
There was not much difficulty in naming the place for its name was derived from the word “beddeng” or border in English because it is a border barrio of Vigan and Caoayan, east of the Mestizo River. However, there was confusion as to what municipality the place should belong to because as per location, Beddeng is located south of the branch of the Mestizo River, and this river branch was believed to be the boundary between the Vigan and Caoayan. Based on information gathered, the early inhabitants decided that the village would be under the territorial jurisdiction of Vigan when Caoayan became a municipality in 1911. it should be noted that Caoayan was a barrio of Villa Fernandina during the Spanish times.
BARANGAY CAMANGAAN
Camangaan is bounded on the north by Cabaroan Laud, on the east by a portion of Nansuagao, on the west by a dried portion of the Mestizo River, and on the south by Beddeng Daya and Beddeng Laud.
Since the second century of Spanish administration in the Philippines, it was placed where mango trees could be seen everywhere in the four corners of the barangay. The Spaniards frequented the place during summer so they could gather the fruits which they considered tastier that any other fruits introduced to this country through Nueva España. It was mainly for this reason that the village has been called Camangaan because of the presence of many mango trees at that time.
BARANGAY SAN JULIAN
The old barrio of San Julian before it was divided into two barrios was bounded on the north by Capangpangan and San Julian, Bantay, on the east by Nagsangalan, on the west by Capangpangan and the Mestizo River and on the south by Cabalangegan and Cabaroan Laud. It was one of the biggest barrios of Vigan, then, so it was officially divided into two, namely: San Julian Norte and San Julian Sur. The former is located north of the main barrio road going to Santa and the latter is located south of the same. It is to be noted that the san Julian road was Vigan’s exit to Santa and could still see the old Spanish kilometer post somewhere along the road in San Jose. It should also be remembered that the old poblacion of Santa was very near Nagpanawan, a barangay of Santa located west of the Banaoang branch of the Abra River.
Regarding the place occupied by barangay San Jose now, it was a sitio of San Julian Sur since the Spanish period and it was called Cacaldingan by the Spaniards because of the presence of many goats in the place. It was changed to san Julian east sometime during the American period and it is now a barangay named San Jose.
BARANGAY RAOIS
Raois is bounded on the north by Taguiporo, Bantay, on the east by the Abra River, on the west by Rugsuanan, and on the south by Nagpanawan, Santa and a part of Purok a Dakkel.
The place is located at the eastern end of Vigan territory and it is for this reason that place was called “Raois”, an Iloco word which a reference to a part of an object or place that is located at the tip end of the same object. The barangay is exactly at the eastern end of the San Julian-Raois road, an extension of the Liberation Blvd in the Poblacion.
BARANGAY TAMAG
The barangay is bounded on the north by Cuta,on the east by a branch of the Mestizo River, on the south by Salindeg and Cal-laguip, and on the west by Paoa, Bulala and Paratong.
During the latter part of eighteenth century, the place which we now call Tamag divided into two parts – the Pantoc Silang on the south and the Santa Ines at the north. When the Spanish Guards arrived from their camp near the Casa Real to patrol Santa Ines, the inhabitants of Pantong Silang asked some of the residents of Santa Ines the purpose of the guards. The people of Santa Ines answered,” Ania ti damdamagen yo?” The Civil Guards heard the answer of the Santa Ines residents which they repeated by saying, “tamtamagen yo?” From that time on, the Spaniards called the place Tamag, a word derived from the phrase “tamtamagen yo.” The place is noted to be site of Villa Fernandina during the Spanish period, according to Mr. Marcelino Foronda.
The first eastern barangay from the poblacion is Capangpangan, which was so called because supposedly, the first settlers in the area originated from the province of Pampanga. These settlers were also leather craftsmen (agkurkurti ti lalat) who may somehow have also been into the pagpartian business. They gathered the skin of the slaughtered animals (e.g. cows, carabaos), dried and made these into knife holsters and beaded slippers.
Understandably, the first Capangpangan settlers chose the river banks area (eastern side of the northern tip of the Mestizo River) because their livelihood activity necessitated so. Washing of the animal skin could be done in the river and the banks could be used to dry them. Likewise, the riverbanks abounded with camachile trees which barks were used in curing the leather. Besides, this location was far enough to bother the city’s residential center with polluting smell associated with the craft.
Leather craft in Capangpangan lasted until the 1960’s. It eventually became extinct with the onslaught of cheaper factory-manufactured slippers. At present, many Capangpangan residents are into meat processing, like the residents of the neighboring Pagpartian.
The originally small settlement has also become one of the most congested and densely-populated non-poblacion barangays of Vigan.
BARANGAY NAGSANGALAN
Nagsangalan is bounded on the north by San Julian East, Bantay; on the east by Purok a Bassit; on the west by San Jose; and on the south by Bongtolan.
The barangay is situated in a piece of territory where one could find a big road crossing during the olden days. This was a place where bamboo grooves grew on both sides of the road so it earned the name “Kinawayanan”.
When the Spaniards had already implanted the catholic faith in Vigan about the end of the sixteenth century, some natives of the village were hired as “fiscales” to serve in the convent of the parish church in the poblacion. A fiscal was one who assisted the parish priest in his daily activities like ringing the bells, and making schedules for marriage, baptism, funerals and the like. It is for this reason that the barrio, at a certain period was called “Cafiscalan.”
West of the barrio road crossing were a number of families who were makers of white squash hats called “cat-tucong” in the dialect. The people of this place was gifted with artistic ability that people from other regions marveled at that craftsmanship displayed by the makers of the white squash hats. It was on this account that the place was named “Cacat-tucongan” at certain epoch of the history of the village.
Several names were given to the different sections of the village. As a whole it was called “Nagsangalan” or “Nagcorosan” in the dialect.
CABAROAN
Cabaroan is bounded on the north by Nagsangalan; on the east by Bongtolan; on the west by Cabalangegan; and on the south by camangaan. It is at present divided into two Barangays namely: Cabaroan Daya and Cabaroan Laud. But in as much as the origin of the name is the main purpose of this study, the two Barangays are studied as one.
As early as the founding of Vigan by Captain Juan de Salcedo, the village was inhabited by Tinggians (Itnegs) who were industrious and peace-loving people. They were farmers and they produced rootcrops like peanuts, camotes, singkamas, and togi in the dialect.
The place was sparely populated at the time so that the governadorcillo (mayor) of Vigan wanted develop the place by inviting people from densely populated areas to settle there. A family was given an area to cultivate so that the Itnegs were displaced by the new settlers. Many settled in the place in the later years and became prosperous. Roads and trails were built and village government was established. The place then became the newest and the youngest village of the Mestizo River at that time. And it came to be called “Cabaroan”, which means newest in English.
Almost oof the families have farmlands to cultivate where they planted rice, corn, root crops and vegetables. Aside from being farmers, the inhabitants are also weaver of Ilocano cloth.
BARANGAY RUGSUANAN
Rugsuanan is bounded on the north by Raois and Purok a Dackel; on the east by Raois; on the west by Purok a dackel; and on thesouth by Nagpanawan, Santa.
The name of the place can be traced as far back at the time when the Abra River was still very active, navigable and destructive. It was then the “Huang Ho” of Ilocandia where many lives were losts and properties destroyed when the river overflowed its banks. Santa, Vigan and Caoyan experienced the adverse effects of its annual floods, so that several hectares of lands were washed away by the river’s turbulent waters.
In the municipality of Caoayan, for example, a barrio by the name of Nalasin, was eroded so that its inhabitants had to move to safer grounds located near Barangay Raois in Vigan. This place in subsequent years was named “Nagtupacan” which in English means a place where a group of people settled simultaneously and suddenly.
The people of Nagtupacan were happy and contented, because in the first place, the people will not be bothered by the yearly floods anymore caused by the turbulent waters of the Abra River, and secondly, the people had found god sources of livelihood, like fishing, farming and weaving. Prosperity reigned in the barrio which adjacent villages envied, so that the inhabitants decided spent a special day for thanksgiving to the Almighty. This feeling of contentment and happiness (rugso in Iloco) was the basis of naming the barrio “Rugsanan” which all the people of the place acceded.
It is true that the barangay does not have large tracts of agricultural land to cultivate; but the people are compensated through their involvement in various occupational pursuits like weaving, fishing, retail business and small scale farming.
BARANGAY PONG-OL
Pong-ol is bounded on the north by Paratong, on the east by Salindeg, on the west by Barraca, on the south by the Manangat River,a branch of the Caoyan River.
The barangay was a busy sub-port of Vigan during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is to be called that a British frigate anchored at Pong-ol, and a representative of Governor dawsonne Drake landed and handed a letter to Diego Silang appointing him as governor of the Ilocos in 1762.
Information had it when a ship just arrived at the port, a man had to blow a horn just to make people know that laborers are needed to help in the unloading of the ship cargoes. The blowing of the horn had a connection to the meaning of the village.
One day, a squad of Spanish civil guards patrolled the place. They saw a man holding a horn and asked him about the name of the village. The man did not understand Spanish so he thought that the Spaniards were asking him to blow his horn; so he did it. As he was blowing his horn, the dogs barked. The patrol leader then decided that the sound (pong) caused by the blowing of the horn and the barking (ol-ol) of the dogs would be the basis in naming the village. The Spaniards then, named it Pong-ol.
Presently, the port had disappeared and the navigable river is already dry, thereby depriving the male inhabitants of their profitable occupation – ship navigation.
PUROK A BASSIT AND PUROK A DACKEL
The two Barangays are bounded on the north by san Isidro; on the west by a wide tract of land belonging to the Municipality of Bantay, on the east by Raois and on the south by a wide area of land, a portion of which belongs to the Municipality of Caoayan.
During the Spanish period, when the village of Purok was not still divided into two, the eastern section was more populous than the western part. Literact rate was high in the eastern section, so that this fact might have been the reason why heads of the barangay (cabezas de barangay) were chosen from that place. There was a time when the said section was called taga-Pajo, because one of the most popular cabezas de barangay, Don Cleto pajo, was a resident of that section of the village.
Time came when the population of the village became bigger and life became more progressive. They found time to relax by spending on merriment, besides thanking the Lord for their growing prosperity. But as the village, during those times, was far from the main municipal road, the inhabitants of the Pajo section decided to move to another section of the village which was more accessible to the municipal road, thus giving more facility to travel to and from the place. The section where Pajo folks established their residence came to be called Purok a Bassit, a village that was carved out from the mother village, Purok a Dakkel.
CABALANGEGAN
Cabalangegan is bounded on the north by San Julian Sur, on the east by Cabaroan laud; on the west by Mestizo River, and on the south by Beddeng laud.
The name, Cabalangegan, as some people claimed, was not derived from the name of a plant called “balangeg” in the dialect, which grows abundantly in fresh water, ponds or lakes. The name Cabalangegan came from the name of an underground root called “Camangeg”. How the name of the village originated, it came about this way:
During the Spanish regime, when the Spaniards already established their government in Ilocos, the inhabitants of the village now called Cabalangegan were industrious, peace-loving and courageous. They could be distinguished from the people of other villages because of a very special weapon they possessed which is called “palsuot”, in the dialect. The “palsuot”, bamboo gun, has a barrel of about one and a half feet long which has a bore of about one half inch in diameter. It is equipped with a bamboo rod which is inserted in the hole and it is used to push the bullet made from “camangeg” out the hole.
Camangeg grew abundantly on that place during the Spanish times and people of the surrounding village were unanimous in calling it “camangeg”. The name had been used for several decades. But time came when the people changed the name into “cabalangegan” to have facility in pronouncing it.
BONGTOLAN
Bongtolan is bounded on the north by Cabaroan Daya, on the east by Nansuagao, on the west by a large area of land, and on the south by Camangaan.
Like other villages of Vigan, Bongtolan has no official name not until the Spaniards had established theor governmental machinery in Ilocandia under the leadership of the “Hernando Cortez” of the Philippines, Captain Juan de Salcedo.
It was summer time when the Spanish civil guards busied themselves patrolling the suburbs of Salcedo’s captain town that they came upon a village which was quite opposed to Spanish conquest. The villagers were angered with the behavior of the Spanish civil guards because oftentimes, the guards get food like fowls, eggs, vegetables and fruits from them. In order to show their displeasure against the bad acts of the Civil Guards, the natives of the place agreed to do something that would irritate the foreign intruders. So, one day, some of the men of the place climbed the trees along the trails which led to the center of the village with dried earth balls (bingkol in Iloco) in their hands. They threw down the earth balls on the heads of the soldiers as they passed by, injuring some of the unhelmeted ones. Many were arrested and tortured so the arrogant acts of the natives were removed. Through the advice of the Ilocanos closed to the Spanish authorities in Vigan, the place was named “Uluan”, because the main target of the natives were the soldiers’ heads.
BARANGAY BEDDENG
Beddeng at present is divided into two barangays: Beddeng Daya and Beddeng Laud. Beddeng, as a whole is bounded on the north by Camangaan and a branch of the Mestiizo River, and on the south by Naguilian, Caoayan.
There was not much difficulty in naming the place for its name was derived from the word “beddeng” or border in English because it is a border barrio of Vigan and Caoayan, east of the Mestizo River. However, there was confusion as to what municipality the place should belong to because as per location, Beddeng is located south of the branch of the Mestizo River, and this river branch was believed to be the boundary between the Vigan and Caoayan. Based on information gathered, the early inhabitants decided that the village would be under the territorial jurisdiction of Vigan when Caoayan became a municipality in 1911. it should be noted that Caoayan was a barrio of Villa Fernandina during the Spanish times.
BARANGAY CAMANGAAN
Camangaan is bounded on the north by Cabaroan Laud, on the east by a portion of Nansuagao, on the west by a dried portion of the Mestizo River, and on the south by Beddeng Daya and Beddeng Laud.
Since the second century of Spanish administration in the Philippines, it was placed where mango trees could be seen everywhere in the four corners of the barangay. The Spaniards frequented the place during summer so they could gather the fruits which they considered tastier that any other fruits introduced to this country through Nueva España. It was mainly for this reason that the village has been called Camangaan because of the presence of many mango trees at that time.
BARANGAY SAN JULIAN
The old barrio of San Julian before it was divided into two barrios was bounded on the north by Capangpangan and San Julian, Bantay, on the east by Nagsangalan, on the west by Capangpangan and the Mestizo River and on the south by Cabalangegan and Cabaroan Laud. It was one of the biggest barrios of Vigan, then, so it was officially divided into two, namely: San Julian Norte and San Julian Sur. The former is located north of the main barrio road going to Santa and the latter is located south of the same. It is to be noted that the san Julian road was Vigan’s exit to Santa and could still see the old Spanish kilometer post somewhere along the road in San Jose. It should also be remembered that the old poblacion of Santa was very near Nagpanawan, a barangay of Santa located west of the Banaoang branch of the Abra River.
Regarding the place occupied by barangay San Jose now, it was a sitio of San Julian Sur since the Spanish period and it was called Cacaldingan by the Spaniards because of the presence of many goats in the place. It was changed to san Julian east sometime during the American period and it is now a barangay named San Jose.
BARANGAY RAOIS
Raois is bounded on the north by Taguiporo, Bantay, on the east by the Abra River, on the west by Rugsuanan, and on the south by Nagpanawan, Santa and a part of Purok a Dakkel.
The place is located at the eastern end of Vigan territory and it is for this reason that place was called “Raois”, an Iloco word which a reference to a part of an object or place that is located at the tip end of the same object. The barangay is exactly at the eastern end of the San Julian-Raois road, an extension of the Liberation Blvd in the Poblacion.
BARANGAY TAMAG
The barangay is bounded on the north by Cuta,on the east by a branch of the Mestizo River, on the south by Salindeg and Cal-laguip, and on the west by Paoa, Bulala and Paratong.
During the latter part of eighteenth century, the place which we now call Tamag divided into two parts – the Pantoc Silang on the south and the Santa Ines at the north. When the Spanish Guards arrived from their camp near the Casa Real to patrol Santa Ines, the inhabitants of Pantong Silang asked some of the residents of Santa Ines the purpose of the guards. The people of Santa Ines answered,” Ania ti damdamagen yo?” The Civil Guards heard the answer of the Santa Ines residents which they repeated by saying, “tamtamagen yo?” From that time on, the Spaniards called the place Tamag, a word derived from the phrase “tamtamagen yo.” The place is noted to be site of Villa Fernandina during the Spanish period, according to Mr. Marcelino Foronda.
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