Sugpon Ilocos Sur Philippines

Sugpon

Sugpon has a land area of 182.80 kilometers with a population of 3,381 in 1995. It is composed of six barangays.

The municipality was then a part of the old Mountain Province, and among the municipalities and municipal districts composing the Amburayan Congregational District. It became a part of Ilocos Sur sometime in 1920 when the provinces in the north were reorganized. It was re-classified as 6th class municipality in 1978. The inhabitants belong to a cultural minority group called, Kan-kanaey.

The dominant religions are the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, Roman Catholic, and the Wesleyan Church. The native dance is the Sayaw and Sadong. The festivities are the Cañaw and the town fiesta celebration. Some of the artifacts are old jars of Chinese Arts and the Gongs and Ganza.

Sugpon is an agricultural community and the people are small farm-owner-cultivators whose crops are rice, camote, gabi, legumes, coffee, and tobacco. The farmers are also engaged in backyard hog, goat, chicken and large cattle-raising. The home industry is bamboo bag-making. General merchandise and rice mills are the only business establishments in the municipality.