Burgos is the last town in the northwest corner of the island of Luzon. It was named after the martyred priest Jose Burgos

José Burgos

José Apolonio Burgos y García was a Filipino mestizo secular priest, accused of mutiny by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines in the 19th century...

 who, together with two other clergymen, were accused of mutiny and later executed in Manila. He was born in the Ilocos Region

Ilocos Region

The Ilocos region or Region I is a Region of the Philippines and is located in the northwest of Luzon. It borders to the east the regions of the Cordillera Administrative Region and Cagayan Valley and to the south the region of Central Luzon...

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Burgos is a 5th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Norte, Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. According to the latest census, it has a population of 8,765 people in 1,784 households.

Places of interest

• Cape Bojeador Lighthouse
  Cape Bojeador Lighthouse
  Cape Bojeador Lighthouse, also known as Burgos Lighthouse, is a cultural heritage structure in Burgos, Ilocos Norte, that was established during the Spanish Colonial period in the Philippines. It was first lit on March 30, 1892 and is set high on Vigia de Nagparitan Hill overlooking the scenic...
  
  , also known as Burgos Lighthouse, is a cultural heritage
  Cultural heritage
  Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations...
  
   structure in Burgos established during the Spanish Colonial
  History of the Philippines
  The history of the Philippines is believed to have begun with the arrival of the first humans via land bridges at least 30,000 years ago. The first recorded visit from the West is the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan, who sighted Samar on March 16, 1521 and landed on Homonhon Island southeast of Samar...
  
   times.

• Kapurpurawan Rocks are rock formations created by forces of the ocean on the rocky coast of Burgos, located just a few minutes further from the lighthouse.

Barangays

Burgos is politically subdivided into 11 barangay

Barangay

A barangay is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward...

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• Ablan
• Agaga
• Bayog
• Bobon
• Buduan (Malituek)
• Nagsurot
• Paayas
• Pagali
• Poblacion
• Saoit
• Tanap

External links

• Pasyalan Ilocos Norte
• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 1995 Philippine Census Information
• 2000 Philippine Census Information
• 2007 Philippine Census Information
• Burgos: Kapurpurawan Rock Formation