SAGPAT

        Sagpat is located north-western of the town.  It is bounded in the North by the town of San Ildefonso, East by Brgy. Guimod, West by the town of San Vicente and South by Brgy. Balaleng. It has a total land area of 70.5 hectares with a population of about 700.  It is plainly an agricultural-based community where farming, followed by livestock production, is the main occupation of residents.

        Long time ago, the place was simply called ‘casilagan’ because there was a part of its area that was covered by trees called ‘silag’, where nearby villagers would come herein to harvest and sell its fruits.  The place was then slightly inhabited because it is often times flooded during rainy season, but not the place where these silag trees were located that became the evacuation site of some dwellers.  Other people came to realize that in order to be safe during inundation, they have ‘to climb up’, and seek temporary shelter to the place of the silag trees.   The ilocano term, meaning, to move or ride on refuge, is ‘simmagpat’ (or ‘to go on top’), until it became Sagpat.

        For now, the barangay is still flooded during heavy rains because it is one of the low lying areas of the town, its land mass being 1 to 3 meters below the level of the national highway.