HISTORY OF TALUGTUG

The Municipality of TALUGTUG got its name from its location. It means "top". Their used to be a Balete tree on a hill top near Cuyapo-Munoz trail. Under this Balete tree, travelers and good shepherd in the good old days used to rest, enjoying the cool moon breeze and the beautiful view of the surrounding areas. Eventually the people referred to the place as "Talugtug-Balete" which later on became a barrio of the Muncipality of Cuyapo in 1917. Its first barrio lieutenant was the last councilor Simeon Ramos. The Municipality of Cuyapo administration built the first school house which was later on neglected. The municipal officials of Guimba took over and a portion of the Talugtug-Balete was named "San Isidro" which became a barrio of Guimba. Crisanto Baldovino, Bernardo Umipig, Perfecto Urbano and Esteban
Baldovino were its outstanding "Teninetes del Barrio". For Talugtug-Balete the outstanding "Teniente del Barrio" were Mariano Mendoza, Pablo Dacayo, Andres Dumandan and Severino Cachuela. In 1946 after liberation, because the inhabitants of the surrounding barrios were gathered the first time in Talugtug, the barrio leaders, at the insistence of Mr. Romualdo Estillore, seriously considered the creation of the municipality. A meeting of the people was held on Nov. 3, 1946 and a committee to negotiate for the creation of the proposed municipality was organized. Mr. Romualdo Estillore was chosen Chairman and Messrs. Aniceto Feliciano, Simeon Ramos and Fermin Ancheta, Vice-Chairman, Auditor, Secretary and Treasurer respectively. The move was pushed in the real
earnest. It was an all out struggle. People generously contributed for expenses. If the proposed municipality be created and organized, there would be no further evaluation and farm work would not be neglected. The situation was critical and immediate action was needed. A petition was drafted and signed by the inhabitants of the different barrios and then presented to the provincial board on Dec. 6, 1946. It was approved on February 12, 1947. The big celebration came on January 10, 1948 when the executive order No. 113 was signed by President Roxas creating Talugtug as the 26th municipality of Nueva Ecija. The town is more than 50 years old and has only 7 administators.

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Talugtug is characterized by hilly and rolling land in the northeastern and northwestern section of the municipality covering almost 7 barangays. The foot of two mountain ranges, namely Mt. Baloy (with peak in cuyapo, Nueva Ecija) and Mt. Amorong (with peak in Umingan, Pangasinan) occupies its hilly and rolling areas.

About 70% of the land area and mostly located in the western portion is flat which constitue the agricultural area of the municipality where almost 75% of its total rice production come.

The municipality's status is currently fourth class, having attained an annual income of thirty million four hundred ninety nine thousand two hundred ninety nine pesos and eighty six cents as of 2006. Majority of the inhabitants rely mainly on farming from their small farm holdings while the rest depend on pasturing animals and cogon harvesting as their source of livelihood.

The municipality is situated in the northern part of Nueva Ecija where it is 71 kilometers away from the seat of the provincial government in Palayan City; 169 kilometers fro Manila; and 29 kilometer from the nearby City of San Jose. It is bounded on the South by the Municipality of Guimba; on the southeast by the municipality of Muñoz; on the west by Cuyapo, on the east by Lupao, all of which are in the province of Nueva Ecija. On the northern most side of Talugtug., however, is the boundry of Pangasinan with the municipality of umingan as the nearby are. Talugtug has a total land are of 10,122.2324 hectare.

Talugtug has a total household population of 20,480 as per unofficial report of the 2007 National Census of Population and Housing. Resulting to only 1.14 percent of the whole population of the province.