Bangued

Bangued, formally the Municipality of Bangued is a 1st elegance municipality and capital of the province of Abra, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a populace of 48,163 people. The name Bangued means roadblock. It changed into mounted as a everyday city in 1598 and became made the seat of the provincial government of Abra on July 25, 1861.

The inauguration coincided with the dinner party day of Saint James the Great. The early settlers had been the Tingguians belonging to the Bago, Itneg, Masadiit, lbanao, and Indayas tribes, who later intermarried with the immigrants from Ilocos Sur. The Tingguians opposed the Christianization introduced by means of the Spanish friars who penetrated the japanese settlements. The Tingguian citizens avoided the Spaniards from penetrating their area of which they positioned roadblocks on all roads leading to the region. They additionally cut massive logs and threw them to the Abra River to save you the incoming colonizers from getting into the vicinity with the use of their boats and bamboo rafts.