Pantabangan

Pantabangan lay in the upper Pampanga basin of northern Luzon, between the Caraballo and Sierra Madre ranges. The settlement stood below Mount Mabilog and Mount Dalimanok, where rivers drain from the surrounding highlands. At the beginning of the eighteenth century Pantabangan and neighbouring Carranglan became mission towns serving as bases for work among the peoples of the southern Caraballo. In 1705 the upper basin was organised as the military district of Nueva Ecija under Pampanga.