Pamplona, officially the Municipality of Pamplona (; ; ), is a

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in the

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Cagayan Cagayan ( ), officially the Province of Cagayan (; ; ; isnag language, Isnag: ''Provinsia nga Cagayan''; ivatan language, Ivatan: ''Provinsiya nu Cagayan''; ; ), is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Cag ...

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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 24,781 people.

History

Pamplona is the result of the merging of two villages during the

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- Abulacan (now barrio San Juan) and Masi. Abulacan was founded by the ecclesiastical authorities on April 30, 1757, with San Juan Nepomuceno as the patron saint. Sometime in 1842, Vicar Pedro Montenegro, O.P. convinced the people to unite the two towns. The vicar named it "Pamplona" in memory of his hometown

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. An agreement was also made that there would be two patron saints of Pamplona: San Juan Nepomuceno and San Pedro de Martir. This is the reason why the town fiesta is celebrated for two days and the images of the two patron saints are carried during religious processions. The town fiesta is celebrated every April 29. In 1919, some of the prominent people of Pamplona recommended the transfer of the same to Bidduang, a barrio of Pamplona. The transfer was made on November 16, 1919, during the administration of municipal president Esteban Meneses by order of General Wood. In 1928, on the sixth year of the administration of municipal president Paulino Ifurung, one of his last acts was the transfer of the municipal government back to its old site, Pamplona, by then called "Albano." Most interesting spot is the mouth of the Pamplona River. It saw history in the making for it was the starting point of Salcedo and his conquistadores when they explored Cagayan in 1572. Because of the river's strong current and unpredictable floods, Mayor Nicolas B. Aquino built in 1955 a concrete levee along Barangay Masi. He also built an irrigation system. It was the first of its kind in Cagayan. In the late 1960s, Special Forces Regiment head Orlando Dulay allegedly ordered then-trainee

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to assassinate mayor Anselmo Galano, but Corpus decided not to follow through with the order. On August 5, 2016, Vice Mayor Aaron Sampaga was assassinated in his friend's compound in Barangay Masi by motorcycle-riding gunmen. Sampaga had previously served three terms as mayor of Pamplona, during which his then-vice mayor Edwin Ifurung accused him of being involved in the 2014 murder of his brother, barangay councilor Edmund Ifurung.

Geography

Pamplona is situated from the provincial capital

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, and from the country's capital city of

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Barangays

Pamplona is politically subdivided into 18

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s. Each barangay consists of

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s while some have

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. * Abbangkeruan * Allasitan * Bagu * Balingit * Bidduang * Cabaggan * Capalalian * Casitan * Centro * Curva * Gattu * Masi (formerly Zimigui-Ziuanan) * Nagattatan * Nagtupacan * San Juan * Santa Cruz (Pimpila) * Tabba * Tupanna

Climate

Demographics

In the 2020 census, the population of Pamplona, Cagayan, was 24,781 people, with a density of .

Economy

Government

Local government

Pamplona is part of the second legislative district of the province of Cagayan. It is governed by a mayor, designated as its local chief executive, and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code. The mayor, vice mayor, and the municipal councilors are elected directly by the people through an election held every three years.

Elected officials

List of mayors

*Nicolas B. Aquino (1955 – 1963) *Anselmo N. Galano (1963 – 1976) *Antonio R. Ifurung (1992 – 1998) *Aaron Sampaga (2007 – 2016) *Arnie Angelica Sampaga (2016 – 2019) *Digna Puzon-Antonio (2019 – present)

Education

The Schools Division of Cagayan governs the town's public education system. The division office is a field office of the DepEd in

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region. The Pamplona Schools District Office governs the public and private elementary and high schools throughout the municipality.

Primary and elementary schools

* Abbangkeruan Elementary School * Allasitan Elementary School * Bagu Elementary School * Balingit Elementary School * Bidduang Elementary School * Cabaggan Elementary School * Capalalian Elementary School * Casitan Elementary School * Curva Elementary School * Masi Primary School * Nagattatan Elementary School * Pamplona Cenral School * Pimpila Elementary School * San Juan Elementary School * Tabba Elementary School * Tupanna Elementary School

Secondary schools

* Bidduang National High School * David M. Puzon Memorial National High School * Pamplona National School of Fisheries * Pamplona Institute

References

External links

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