Bucay is a 5th class municipality in the province of Abra, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 14,881 people in 2,943 households. A municipality (bayan in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Abra is a landlocked province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in Luzon. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Barangays
Bucay is politically subdivided into 21 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
In 1846, Abra was separated from the province of Ilocos Sur and established as a politico-military province.
In 1905, the province of Abra was annexed as a sub-province of Ilocos Sur.
The Abra’s arable land is concentrated in the lower flood plains region and supports a variety of crops, such as rice, tobacco, corn, banana, and coffee.
I think it was he who drew the first map of Bucay where he indicated areas for schools, a courthouse, the town jail and an imposingly majectic fort, the name of which remains to be rediscovered.
Bucay is an early example of the "cuadricula" which was the urban design implemented all over the vast Spanish empire, since the reign of Charles V. From Mexico to Uruguay, from the Philippines to Cuba, one finds evidence of what is probably the earliest urban planning artifice of the Western world.
Nestled in the foothills of the Cordillera mountain range, Bucay has a population of twelve thousand, descendants of Tinggians and Ilocanos, speaking their own dialects and relishing the most succulent bagnet, caldereta and dinuguan of goat meat, a very particular version of pinakbet, an abundance of fresh water fish, sea weeds and fern.
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