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Juan De Salcedo afetr occupying
the town settlement of Vigan, pressed further north to Laoag
which at that time was also a center of population. Located at
"Ermita Hill" at the northern bank of the Padsan River,
Laoag was already a flourishing center of trade with the Japanese
and Chinese. The Augustinian missionaries established the Laoag
parish in 1580 with St. William, the Hermit as its Patron Saint.
Laoag eventually became the capital of Ilocos Norte.
Ilocos Norte was created by virtue
of the Spanish Royal Decree on February 2,1818. At that time,
the province occupied the coastal plain bordering the China Sea
and guarded by the Cordilleras in the northwestern corner of
Luzon.
