History

Bual was settled by Christians from Visayas

Visayas

The Visayas or Visayan Islands and locally known as Kabisay-an gid, is one of the three principal geographical divisions of the Philippines, along with Mindanao and Luzon. It consists of several islands, primarily surrounding the Visayan Sea, although the Visayas are considered the northeast...

 during the early part of the 21st century. It was originally called Bual, believed to have been coined from "agbubual" meaning the uprooting of a big tree.

The Dilangalen family was the leading clan of the realm, which stretched from the present-day poblacion (town center) of Midsayap, approximately 5 kilometres to the ENE, to the present-day border with Kabuntalan.

Bual was eventually divided into two, Bual Sur to the west and Bual Norte to the East.

Notable institutions

It is home to some of the most important government organizations including:

• Philippine Rice Research Institute
  Philippine Rice Research Institute
  The Philippine Rice Research Institute is one of the Philippines' rice research institutes, and collaborates with the International Rice Research Institute also headquartered in the Philippines. PhilRice plays a key role in building and sustaining a competitive rice economy through research into...
  
   (PhilRice)
• Agricultural Training Institute-Farmer's Training Center (ATI-FTC)
• National Seed Quality Control Services (NSQCS) under the Bureau of Plant Industry
  Bureau of Plant Industry (Philippines)
  The Philippines' Bureau of Plant Industry , abbreviated as BPI, is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Agriculture responsible for serving and supporting the Philippine plant industry sector.-History:On January 1, 1930 by virtue of Act 3639 of the Philippine Legislature,...
  
  

Amenities

Bual Norte has a school (Simeon Panganiban Elementary School), a day care center, a health center, a concrete farm-to-market road, concrete barangay hall and a well-coordinated purok

Purok

Purok is a political subdivision of the barangay in the Philippines, especially in rural areas. Both barangay and SK councilors are in charge of leading their own respective puroks....

sector system.

External links

• Aerial view