Trip from Guimba to Talugtug Nueva Ecija

Loida and I take a leisurely road trip to Talugtog Nueva Ecija.Talugtug, officially the Municipality of Talugtug, is a 4th class municipality in the province of Nueva Ecija, Philippines.The oldest settlement in the town was a hill top near the present-day Cuyapo-Munos trail, where a sacred balete tree stood and travelers and farmers came to rest. The area later became known as Talugtug-Balete, which became a barrio of the Municipality of Cuyapo in 1917. A part of the barrio was later absorbed into the Municipality of Guimba and became the barrio of San Isidro. During this time, Mariano Mendoza, Pablo Dacayo, Andres Dumandan and Severino Cachuela became the teniente del barrio of old Talugtug. After World War II, members of the town held a meeting on November 3, 1946, to launch the created of a proposed municipality. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 25,236 people.