Tagudin

Tagudin lies on the western side of northern Luzon, between the Cordillera mountains and the South China Sea. Its rivers descend through the narrow coastal country of Ilocos. Augustinian missionaries established a town and church here in 1586, dedicating the church to the Conversion of Saint Augustine. The settlement became one of the communities through which Spanish religious authority spread along the Ilocos coast, while the mountains behind it remained home to diverse highland peoples.