Aringay La Union

The town’s pride are beaches and mountain sceneries. You can go mountain trekking or hiking following the Aringay River passing through a scenery of big rocks and a plantation of giant ipil-ipil and mahogany trees.

The Municipality of Aringay is located in the southern portion of the province of La Union. It is bounded on the North by the Municipality of Caba; on the East by the mountainous area of Tuba, Benguet; and on the West by the Lingayen Gulf. A small portion of Aringay is bounded on the northeast by the Municipalities of Naguilian and Burgos and on the Southeast by Tubao and Pugo, La Union.

Legend tells us that Aringay was named after “Aring”, the beautiful daughter of the datu who was the ruler of the northern settlement. This beautiful girl was the subject of a near tragic courtship with the only son of the chieftain of the southern settlement.

One dark night, the young lovers secretly met at the middle of the river for the purpose of making final plans for their elopement. Aring, sensing that something was going wrong with their plans, jumped into the roaring river in an attempt to kill herself, but the young man was quick to rescue. He shouted, “ARING, AY ARING”, and quickly dove into the river to save Aring. Several people heard the shouts and helped to bring the young man and Aring to the shore.

This incident resulted in the marriage of Aring with the young man and the union of the two (2) settlements, thus forming the village called “ARINGAY” in memory of Aring. The courageous young man later became the ruler of the village.