GUIMOD

        Guimod is the ‘northern tip most barangay’ of the Municipality.  It is along the National highway, bounded on the North by the town of San Ildefonso, South by Brgy. Balaleng, West by Brgy. Sagpat and East by Brgy. Capangdanan. It has a voting population of 427 with a vast track of agricultural, as well as pasture/grassy land.

        According to folktales, the early families that inhabited the place regularly conduct gatherings or meetings for them to be heard in order to afford participation and consultation on significant matters that has to be presented to or decided by them. The holding of public gatherings is called ‘gimong’ (the ilocano jargon for a ‘meeting of the community’) that has become their practice for purposes of dissemination of local affairs and happenings. One day, while having a meeting, a group of foreigners accidentally arrived and asked the residents what place are they in.  The residents misunderstood that they were being asked what were they doing or what was the gathering all about.  The Chieftain answered that they are having a traditional ‘gimong’ and then it soon began, the place was called ‘guimod’.

        When its population increased, it was transformed into a barrio whose inhabitants’ main principal source of subsistence is farming. Situated along the national highway, it is a very viable future expansion site as manifested by the gradual boom of business entrepreneurs in the area.