Tagudin, Ilocos Sur
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Tagudin is a first class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines
. According to the latest census, it has a population of 38,123 people in 6,603 households.
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. According to the latest census, it has a population of 38,123 people in 6,603 households.
Barangays
Tagudin is politically subdivided into 43 barangayBarangay
A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...
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Origin of the name
The name of the municipality was derived from a traditional loom called "tagudan." A Spaniard who came to the place asking its name wrote it as its name when told by a resident, who thought that he was asking the name of the cloth-weaving apparatus she's using.History
- The first sundialSundialA sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style onto a surface marked with lines indicating the hours of the day. The style is the time-telling edge of the gnomon, often a thin rod or a...
s were constructed in Tagudin in 1841 by Father Juan Sorolla. - The decisive Battle of Bessang Pass started in this municipality, at Bitalag.
- Tagudin was formerly the capital of the sub-province of Amburayan, which included Lepanto (that became a sub-province now included in the province of BenguetBenguetBenguet is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. Its capital is La Trinidad and borders, clockwise from the south, Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur, Mountain Province, Ifugao, and Nueva Vizcaya....
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). - Tagudin was made the site of the Base Hospital of the United States Armed Forces in the Philippines-Northern Luzon (USAFIP-NL) in 1945 during World War IIWorld War IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. - Tagudin was the establishment of the military general headquarters bases of the Philippine Commonwealth Army 1st and 12th Infantry Division and the USAFIP-NL 121st Infantry Regiment was stationed the towns and active in 1942 to 1946 during World War II from 1942 to 1945 and Post-War Era from 1945 to 1946.