Bagulin is a 5th class municipality in the province of La Union, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 11,857 people in 2,171 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_la_union_bagulin. ... A municipality (bayan in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... La Union is a province of the Philippines located in the Ilocos Region in Luzon. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Bagulin is politically subdivided into 10 barangays. A barangay (Filipino: baranggay) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
LaUnion is highly literate, with San Fernando City as the administrative, educational, and financial center of the region.
LaUnion, "the union" or "the united" in Spanish, was formed, in 1850, when the colonial government merged the southern towns of Ilocos Sur province, the northern towns of Pangasinan, and the western towns of Benguet to the east.
Pugo is the smallest town of LaUnion in terms of land area, and is located at the foot of the Santo Tomas mountain range just about an hour away from Baguio City.
Pugo as well as other parts of southern LaUnion was once part of the ethnoliguistic territory of Pangalato speaking people prior to political subdivison during the spanish regime.