This account was not intended to destroy or defame the personality of the town proper! This was made as a source of information about the facts, cultures, history, and happenings of the place itself! Thank you so much!

CAOAYAN, ILOCOS SUR PHILIPPINES

During pre-Spanish times the port of Pandan was an important trading post for Chinese and interisland vessels, and one of the commodities once traded there was bamboo. With the arrival of the Spaniards came the project to identify the names of places in the Philippines. A Spaniard came to Pandan and asked the name of the place. Thinking that the Spaniard wanted to know the name of the bamboo floating in rafts on the Baggoc River waiting to be traded, they answered "kawayan." The Spaniard then listed the place's name as Caoayan.

The town of Caoayan Ilocos Sur was believed to have been established and created as a separate municipality in 1824. Records of the town from the mid 1800 up to 1991 are not available due to the great conflagration that happened in 1991, which damaged the Old Spanish convent, were records had been kept.

Monday, February 8, 2010

Callaguip Caoayan

BARANGAY CALLAGUIP



Isang malakas na bagyo na nagdulot ng baha hanggang maabot nito ang Mastizo River upang bumigay ang daan lalong-lalo na ang tulay patungo sa karatig bayan. Halos lahat ng Barangay ay naapektuhan ng baha maliban sa lugar na ito. Kaya ang mga tao ay nagtaka at sa pangyayaring iyon ang naging dahilan kung bakit naisipan na ng iba na lumipat dito at manirahan. Dito, ang mga tao’y nagsimula muli at pinaunlad ang kani-kanilang buhay. Habang tumatagalay palagi nilang naaalala ang nangyaring iyon na kung saan nakaranas sila ng matinding pagsubok at kahirapan.

Sa paglipas ng taon, ang salitang “LAGUIP” na ang ibig sabihin ay “pag-aalala” o sa ibang salita ay “alala”, at kung saan ang tawag sa lugar na ito ngayon ay “CALLAGUIP.”
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