San Gabriel, La Union: Paggiddiatan a nagbaetan dagiti rebision
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Linia 18:
Naadaw ti senso 2000, adaan daytoy iti populasyon a 14,909 nga umili ken 2,830 a babbalay.
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Iti ili ti San Gabriel dati nga nanaganan iti sitio “Baka-Burnotan” , aggapu iti abal ablay a ginnuyudan. Ti sitio Baka - Burnutan ket pagipaspasturan iti taraken a baka dagiti kaarruba na a sitio.
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▲The town of San Gabriel is within the easternmost part of the province of La Union. It was formerly called sitio “Baka-Burnotan,” the name derived from the game of the old folks that means “binnornutan” or tug-of-war. Sitio Baka-Burnotan was the place where people in the nearby sitios gathered daily to graze their cattle while playing binnornutan. The games were played between the Christians and the pagan settlers of the Kankanaey tribe. During the later years, the name baka-burnotan was shortened to burnotan.
Sitio Burnotan became the ideal place to settle because of the wide plain along the river and its fertile soil. Intermarriages between Christians and pagan settlers greatly contributed to the increase in population. In April 19, 1897, the Roman Catholic Church, through the late Fr. Redondo, indoctrinated the pagan settlers with Christian teachings. He established a church and introduced the image of Saint Gabriel to be their patron saint. As a result, many of the pagan inhabitants embraced Christianity and many of them were baptized. The people later decided to change the name of their place to San Gabriel in honor of their patron saint.
San Gabriel was made into a township in 1906 under the sub-province Amburayan, Mountain Province with Don Pablo Waggay as its first “Presidente.”
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