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General Information,

Significant Facts and Data

A Mother and Grandmother to Towns

Agoo prides in being mother to three towns and grandmother to three others. The first town have to be established in the Ilocos Region. Agoo, in its early stages, embraced areas now pertaining to the town of Aringay, Sto. Tomas and Tubao. Aringay became a town in 1793 and later was divided to give birth to Caba. Sto. Tomas became a separate town in 1785 and later was partitioned to create Rosario. And Tubao became a town in 1765 and from it was constituted the town of Pugo.

Topography

Level Land - 70%

Slope - 18%

Undulating areas - 12%

  • Agoo consists of 49 barangays classified as rural and urban.

  • 14 urban barangays with a total land area of 602.79 hectares.
  • 35 rural barangays with a total land area of 4,515.44 hectares.

Climate

Wet Season - May to October

Dry Season - November to April

Language/ Dialect

Ilocano - 91.35% of the total population

Pangasinense - 4.41%

Tagalog - 3.99%

Others - .75%

Religious Set

94.12% - Roman Catholic

5.88% - Others

Annual Budget:

2010 (Actual) - Php. 155,740,042.94

2011 (Actual) - Php. 168,856,067.45

2012 (Projected) - Php.170,000,000.00

One Town, One Product (OTOP) :

Processed Mushroom, Fruits, Fish and Vegetables.

Major Means of Livelihood: Farming and Fishing

Average Family Monthly Income: Php. 9,041.00

Employment Rate: 91.76%

Percentage of Unemployment: 8.24 %

Poverty Incidence Rate: 23.03%

Education

On the education aspect, the Municipality of Agoo prides itself as the education center in the Second District of La Union. It has:

  • a State University (DMMMSU- SLUC)
  • 3 Tertiary Private Schools (PCLU, PCNL, Agoo Computer College)
  • an LGU-operated Vocational School (ATVETC-Agoo Technical and Vocational Education Training Center)
  • 4 Public and 6 Private Secondary Schools
  • 19 Public and 7 Private Elementary Schools
  • 49 Day Care Centers of 49 Barangays
  • 19 Public Pre-Schools
  • 8 Private Pre-Schools
  • 2 District Alternative Learning System Centers
  • 1 SPED Center and
  • 6 community learning centers

Health Services

• 3 doctors in the RHU; 1 family physician, 1 endocrinologist who holds a Diabetic Clinic every Wednesday afternoon, 1 Obstetrics-Gynecologist on-call.

• a Municipal Health Unit which now an accredited Sentrong Sigla and TB DOTS (Direct Observance Treatment Short Course) Center.

• Agoo Maternity and Lying-InCenter (Philhealth Accredited) where birthing is conducted.

The La Union Medical Center

  • a 750M European grant with a 100+ bed capacity. It is the most modern provincial hospital north of Manila located in Nazareno, Agoo, La Union. It has 276 personnel with 54 doctors serving the patients from La Union and nearby Provinces of Pangasinan, Ilocos Sur and Mt.Province.

Security Services

Agoo has 41 police personnel & 13 trainees, 10 firemen and 16 jail guards. Also, the new Agoo Traffic Management Office (ATMO) has 6 traffic aides and 3 personnel.

Trade and Commerce

  • Agoo lies at the crossroads of Ilocandia and the Mountain Provinces making it a potential hub for development. The municipality also prides itself as the Center of Trade and Commerce in the Second District of La Union. This can be gleaned on the mushrooming business establishments, 9 banking institutions, several lending financial institutions, several food chains and others.

The re-development of the former Imelda Garden now called the Agoo People’s Park with the new commercial center has enhanced the economic enterprise, trade and industry of Agoo.

  • Trade and Industry is further strengthened with the Construction of the new Agoo Hypermarket

The Municipal Abattoir is rated Class “AA” where pigs, cows and chicken are dressed for sale in the market.

  • An array of commercial establishment is strategically located along its major and peripheral roads, likewise, sari-sari stores, rice mills, iron works, motor machine shops, drugstores are established in the various Barangays.

There are 4 big tobacco re-drying companies operating in Sta. Rita Norte namely:

1. Universal Leaf Philippines

2. Trans Manila

3. Lancaster Philippines and

4. Allied Tobacotina, Inc.

Special Events

The 1990 Earthquake

July 16 at 4:30 in the afternoon, a calamitous earthquake with an intensity of 7.7 to 8.00 on the Richter Scale, struck, devastating and disastrous in many ways.

The Town's Structure that Suffered Most:

1. The Basilica of Our Lady of Charity

2. Municipal Building which totally collapsed

3. Several buildings of the DMMSU, College of Arts and Sciences

Our Lady of Kayumanggi

Through the 70’s up to early 80’s, Agoo made a name because of the alleged apparitions of Our Lady of Kayumanggi to Ronnie Bautista, who was an acolyte at the St. Monica Parish in Agoo and these apparitions started on March 31, 1975. Accordingly, she commanded him to clean the hill and pointed to water that sprang from a rock, from which many pilgrims after him used to get water. The hill was soon developed by promoters and believers of the apparitions. He continued receiving messages from the Kayumanggi. All messages are recorded in a book entitled “The Brown Madonna”, our “Kayumanggi Ina”

Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The town is known for the alleged Marian apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Judiel Nieva, presently a transgender person. Nieva reported seeing the Virgin Mary a top a Guava tree in what has been popularly known as Our Lady of Agoo, weeping statue which then became a highly sensationalized religious pilgrimage among Filipino Catholics.

January 3, 1993

The messages of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Judiel on the hill in the guava hill had pilgrims and visitors flock to Agoo with a rendezvous on the apparition hill in Barangay San Antonio with an estimated crowd of over a million.

Unnatural Manifestations of these Pilgrimages were: the dancing sun, appearance of various colors of light in the vicinity, the radiating apparition tree, "the mystical communion" of Judiel, and the opening up of the overcast sky with a flight of white doves forming the letters A M (Ave Maria) in the sky, the sweet scent, the flashes of light both at the apparition site and later in the Basilica of Our Lady of Charity. All these phenomenon and several others took place at these and succeeding apparitions, but always on the First Saturdays of each month.

According to Msgr. Zabala, a visiting priest and a confidant of Judiel, on one occasion Judiel was elevated about five feet above the ground and he had to take hold of him and pulled him down. One of the most astounding phenomena, and certainly the most controversial one on February 6, 1993, was the shedding of tears of blood of the miraculous statue, which the commission believes "doubtfully authentic", due to the fact that the image was found to have canals in the inner side of the eyes and a hole with a copper tube on the crown of the head..

On August 15, 1995, the Diocesan Commission on Inquiry created by His Excellency Antonio Tobias, Bishop of the Diocese of San Fernando, La Union, announced that the APPARITION IN AGOO IS FAR FROM SUPERNATURAL due to:

1. The clean plagiarizer of the messages;

2.The doubtful and questionable state of the supposedly "miraculous" image; and

3. The disappointing outcome and unedifying effects of division and hostility in the community and the seer's disobedience to ecclesiastical authority.

In order to relate to history the events, the so-called phenomena, that preceded this declaration of the commission, it seems proper that within the context of Agoo's history, that so-called "Agoo Phenomenon" should be placed in its right perspective and clear solution, within the least casting a shade of doubt on the commission's verdict.

Jose D. Aspiras

A Filipino politician. He was a member of Ferdinand Marcos's cabinet as Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism and was responsible for the designation of Agoo as a first class municipality. He is currently interred in the Agoo Basilica in the municipality of Agoo, La Union.

The Agoo-Baguio Road, situated in the Province of La Union, is named the

"Jose D. Aspiras Highway" in his honor.

MUNICIPAL OFFICIALS

HON. SANDRA Y. ERIGUEL, M.D.

Municipal Mayor

HON. HENRY, BALBIN

Municipal Vice- Mayor

Sangguniang Bayan Members

HON. VIOLY, BALBIN

HON. PRISCILLA KOMIYA

HON. DOMING RIVERA

HON. LEONARD FLORENT, BULATAO

HON. RICARDO FRONDA

HON. RICARDO OLLER

HON. RONI, NIÑALGA

HON. RENATO, BALDERAS

HON. FELIZA AURORA, LAUS

Vision and Mission

Vision

By 2015, Agoo:

• As the center of education, trade, industry, sports, culture and tourism in Southern La Union.

• With God-loving leaders united to deliver its citizens, decent, affordable housing, responsive social services, improved agricultural production.

• With balanced ecological resources through an effective environmental, water and transport management.

• As a formidable and progressive city

Mission

It is our mission to set up and develop our community as a haven:

• In pursuit and implementation of social development programs in order to ensure the holistic growth of every citizen;

• For the enhancement of economic enterprise in order to alleviate and improve the quality of life of our people;

• For the preservation of our environment in order to propel the sustainable development of our community;

• For the promotion of family-based and inter community-oriented tourism programs;

• And for the operationalization of other support services in order to empower our people to promote their own welfare and self-actualization.

AWARDS

1998

  • Cleanest Slaughterhouse (Region I), Awarded by National Meat Inspection Commission.

1999

• Most Outstanding Municipal Registry in the Philippines.

• Most Outstanding Municipality in Budget Management.

• National Finalist, Most Child Friendly Municipality in the Philippines.

• Regional Champion, Ilocos Region, Most Child Friendly Municipality in the

Philippines.

2000

• Most Outstanding Municipal Registry in the Philippines.

2001

• National Finalist and First Runner Up, Cleanest and Greenest Municipality in the Philippines, Gawad Pangulo sa Kapaligiran.

• National Finalist and First Runner Up, National Literacy Awards, Most Outstanding Local Government Unit (NFE Category)

2005

• Second Runner Up Cleanest & Greenest Municipality in the Philippines.

• Second Runner Up, National Literacy Awards (Most Outstanding LGU).

2006

• Best PESO Office (Regional & Provincial Level)

• Most Outstanding Municipal Civil, Registry Office (National Level)

2007

• Best PESO Office (Regional & Provincial Level)

• Outstanding PESO Office (National Level)

• 4-Star Achievement Award Most Functional Community Learning Center-San Vicente San Agustin Community Learning Center (Regional Level)

• Most Outstanding Municipal Civil, Registry Office (National Level)

2008

• Champion, Most Outstanding LGU (Municipal Level Class A) (National Level), National Literacy Awards

• Champion, Most Outstanding LGU (Municipal Level Class A) (Regional Level) National Literacy Awards

• Most Outstanding Child Friendly Municipality (Provincial Level)

• Finalist, Most Outstanding Child Friendly Municipality (Regional Level)

- 2nd Runner-up, LGU’s Best Literacy Practices, “Establishment of DEFEMNHS” (Regional Level)

2009

• Best Practices on Solid Waste Management (Regional Level)

• UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy

• Hall of Fame, National Literacy Awards (National Level)

•Hall of Fame, National Literacy Awards (Regional Level)

2010

• Program/Project Award – 40th Anniversary Reading Advocacy Awards given by the Reading Association of the Philippines.

• Best Solid Waste Management Project Implementer on Zero Basura (Provincial Level)

• Best Practices on Solid Waste Management (Regional Level)

• 2010 Presidential Award for Child-Friendly Municipality (Regional Level)

• 2nd Runner-up, Presidential Award for Child-Friendly Municipality (National Level)

2011

  • 2nd Runner-Up, Child Friendly Municipality (National Level)
  • Regional Champion, Child Friendly Municipality.
  • Regional Champion, Cleanest, Safest and Greenest Municipality.
  • 2nd Runner-up, Search for Best Performing LGU Based on LGPMS (Regional Level)
  • Regional Champion, Model LGU on Solid Waste Management Best Practices.
  • National Finalist (Barangay Macalva Sur), National Search for the Barangay with Best Sanitation Practices.
  • Regional Champion, Best Municipal Fire Station.
  • Most Improved Facility 2011, Rural Health Unit of Agoo (Provincial Level)
  • Best LGU MNCHN (Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health and Nutrition Implementer (Provincial Level)
  • Citation for Sustained Good Performance in the Implementation of RA 9003 (ESWM Act of 2000)

RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Information and Communication Technology

- Establishment of Agoo Website: www.agoolaunion.gov.ph

Massive Infrastructure Projects

- Construction of Waterway at San Nicolas East-San Antonio-San Juan

- Construction/Concreting of Road at San Roque West

- Construction of 12-Units Movable Stalls at Denny's Park

- Construction of Farm-To-Market Road at San Joaquin Sur

- Construction of Farm-To-Market Road at Macalva Sur

- Construction of Drainage Canal at San Joaquin Norte

- Construction/Repair of Stage (Roofing) at San Nicolas Elementary School

- Back filling of BJMP Ground/Parking Area at San Francisco

- Repair/Replacement of Totally Damaged Roofing at San Agustin-San Vicente Elementary School

- Rip-rapping of Road Shoulder and Tapping of Existing Rip-rap at San Joaquin Norte

RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Community/Social Development

- Conduct of eighteen (18) "Danggay ti Iskwela" and one (1) grand medical-dental mission

- Conduct of Blood Letting Activity

Health

- Conduct of "Operation Tuli" wherein 468 children were circumcised

- Conduct of Free Cleft Lip Palate Operation

Human Resource Development

- 118 trainees completed basic and advance computer literacy training

External Affairs

- Given assistance to the Enhanced Justice on Wheels (EJOW) Program of the Supreme Court

TANGIBLES

BASILICA MINORE OF OUR LADY OF CHARITY ("Basilica de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad")

  • The only Basilica Minore north of Manila. Enshrined in the massive structure is the image of Our Lady of Charity which was left untouched during an earthquake that destroyed the church in 1892. It also known as Apo Caridad de Agoo and the third among the churches with that distinguished title in the Philippines, after the Basilica of the Santo Niño of Cebu and the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Manila, the Manila Cathedral.

Agoo Plaza dela Virgen

  • The former Shrine of Our Lady of Charity which was destroyed during the killer earthquake of July 16, 1990, located in front of Museo Iloko.

Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes

  • This religious shrine carved out on the mountain side and located in the end of Dona Toriba Aspiras Road at Barangay San Antonio.

Apparition Site of the Immaculate Queen Heaven and Earth

  • The place is located on a hilly portion of Barangay San Antonio, some 500 meters south of Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes. Prior to its development as a sacred ground, the place was barren with some area planted with vegetables by local residents living near the area. The significant portion of the place was the existence of a spring which serve as a source of potable water among the local residents who lived near the area.

Eagle of the North

  • huge statue of an eagle stand like a sentinel at the entrance of the Jose D. Aspiras Highway (formerly Marcos Highway) to Baguio City.It symbol the power of the Marcoses and the edifice was designed by Arch. Anselmo Day-ag.

Museo de La Union or Museo Iloko

  • The former presidencia of Agoo now converted to museum located at the right side of the municipal hall.

Jose D. Aspiras Civic Center

  • It was built in memory of the late Congressman Jose D. Aspiras, an Agoeño. Started his public life as Press Secretary of the late Ilocano President Marcos in the year 1965,then as Secretary of Tourism.

Agoo Welcome Arch

Jose D. Aspiras Ancestral House

Jose D. Aspiras Higway (formerly Marcos Highway)

Municipal Hall Building

SAN ANTONIO - SAN MIGUEL ECO-MOUNTAIN TRAIL

Agoo Beach

  • This stretch of beach fronting the Agoo Playa Hotel and which is part of Agoo- Damortis National Park was where the Japanese traded with the native during the Pre-Spanish time earning for Agoo the name "Puerto de Hapon"

INTANGIBLES

Festival & Traditions

AGOO DINENGDENG FESTIVAL

A festival of harvest and thanksgiving for the bounty and blessings that the Almighty Creator has bestowed to the town and the Agoeños. It is celebrated annually every first week of May.

This occasion pays tribute to Dinengdeng, a favorite vegetable dish of Ilocanos equally famous as the pakbet or “pinakbet”. It aims to promote this simple yet healthy dish made up of backyard vegetables like the squash, eggplant, ampalaya, saluyot and okra, mixed with bagoong (fish sauce) and simmered with a dried or broiled fish.

It features 101 ways to cook Dinengdeng from the variant of freshly picked vegetable prepared on-the-spot by the town’s socio, academic, religious and civic organizations. The dishes are open for free tasting to the public.

101 Dinengdeng Recipes:

1. Dinengdeng Con Kabute

2. Malunggay-Papaya Saluyot Dinengdeng Espesyal,

3. Dinengdeng na Toge na may Malunggay,

4. Buridibud na Kamatsile,

5. Guyabano-Patani Dinengdeng,

6. Dinengdeng (Corn, Mushroom and Ampalaya),

7. Buridibud,

8. Mais-Kabute Dinengdeng,

9. Papaya Delight,

10. Dinengdeng na Singkamas na may Alugbati,

11. Alocon Malunggay Dinengdeng,

12. Ampalunggay,

13. Bulanglang na Patani,

14. Sitaw at Kalabasa,

15. Dinengdeng Shabu-shabu,

16. Saging na Saba at Dahon ng Saluyot,

17. Saging na Saba at Dahon ng Ampalaya,

18. Linuyaang Daludal,

19. Inasimang Bunga ng Sitaw,

20. Linuyaang Kamansi,

21. Iloco Dinengdeng.

22. Inasimang Daludal at Bunga ng Sitaw,

23. Bunga ng Monggo (Young),

24. Linuyaang Upo, Inasimang Bunga ng Monggo,

25. Dinengdeng na Puso ng Saging,

26. Puso ng Saging na Inasiman,

27. Puso ng Saging na may Sitaw at Okra,

28. Monggo na may Dahon ng Malunggay,

29. Inasimang Papaya at Saluyot,

30. Linuyaang Papaya con Sardinas,

31. Inasimang Papaya na may Sitaw,

32. Dinengdeng na Kalabasa,

33. Dinengdeng na Kalabasa at Ampalaya,

34. Dinengdeng na Kalabasa at Sitaw,

35. Dinengdeng na Labong,

36. Dinengdeng na Labong na may Sitaw,

37. Dinengdeng na Kadios (Kardis),

38. Dinengdeng na Patani na may Sitaw,

39. Dinengdeng na Patani at Malunggay,

40. Dinengdeng na Patani na may Kabute.

41. Dinengdeng na Bunga ng Malunggay,

42. Dinengdeng na Kabute at Dahon ng Ampalaya,

43. Dinengdeng na Kabute at Bunga ng Ampalaya,

44. Dinengdeng na Kabute at Sari-Saring Gulay,

45. Dinengdeng na Murang Mais at Dahon ng Ampalaya,

46. Dinengdeng na Langka,

47. Kinamatisang Bungang Malunggay,

48. Bunga ng Malunggay Con Kabute,

49. Dinengdeng na Bungang Malunggay na may Sari-Saring Gulay,

50. Dinengdeng Special,

51. Dinengdeng na Upo at Kadios,

52. Dinengdeng na Puso ng Saging at Patola,

53. Dinengdeng na Saba,

54. Dinengdeng na Saba at Sari-Saring Gulay,

55. Dinengdeng na Saba na may Bulaklak ng Kalabasa,

56. Dinengdeng na Buko,

57. Dinengdeng na Murang Buto ng Sitaw,

58. Dinengdeng na Kamansi,

59. Dinengdeng Malunggay Fruit with Ampalaya Fruit and Camote (Bagas),

60. Dinengdeng na Toge.

61. Dinengdeng na Papaya na may Malunggay,

62. Dinengdeng na Mani,

63. Sari-Saring Dahon ng Gulay,

64. Dinengdeng na may Bulaklak ng Kalabasa at Talbos ng Sitaw,

65. Dinengdeng na Gabi,

66. Dinengdeng na Mais na may Dahon ng Malunggay,

67. Dinengdeng na Gabi (Tangkay),

68. Dinengdeng na Puso ng Saging na may Bunga ng Papaya,

69. Dinengdeng na Monggo (Buto),

70. Dinengdeng Pochero,

71. Dinengdeng na Bunga ng Ampalaya,

72. Dinengdeng na Bunga ng Ampalaya na may Mais at Kabute,

73. Dinengdeng na Gabi na may Sitaw,

74. Dinengdeng na Buto ng Murang Sitaw at Dahon ng Malunggay,

75. Dinengdeng na Talong,

76. Dinengdeng na Buto ng Sitaw at Dahon ng Ampalaya,

77. Dinengdeng na Labong na may Sari-saring Gulay,

78. Dinengdeng na may Puso ng Saging at Gabi,

79. Dinengdeng na Bungan g Singkamas, Dinengdeng na Patola.

80. Dinengdeng na Patani

  • 81. Dinengdeng na Kalabasa at Dahon

82. Dinengdeng na Upo at Patani,

83. Dinengdeng na Patani at Sari-Saring Gulay,

84. Ilokano Pinakbet,

85. Dinengdeng na Langka at Sitaw,

86. Inasimang Bungang Singkamas,

87. Sitaw at Saluyot, Dinengdeng na Buto ng Sitaw (Itim),

88. Dinengdeng na Buto ng Sitaw at Sari-Saring Gulay,

89. Dinengdeng na Mais at Kamoteng Baging at Dahon ng Ampalaya,

90. Inasimang Daludal,

91. Dinengdeng na Mani,

92. Gabi at Dahon ng Malunggay,

93. Dinengdeng na Bulaklak ng Kalabasa,

94. Gabi at Kabute,

95. Dinengdeng na Saba,

96. Okra at Bulaklak ng Kalabasa,

97. Pinakbet Ilokano,

98. Dinengdeng na Gabi,

99. Talbos ng Sitaw, Talong at Patola,

100. Dinengdeng na Mais at Yellow Camote,

101. Dinengdeng na Mani Con Kabute and Puso ng Saging na may Sitaw, Sigarilyas at Saluyot.

Kilawen Festival

  • An festivity meant to give thanks to God and the community for all the blessings received by all concerned especially the townspeople of Agoo. The festivity was derived from one of the Ilokanos’ favorite dishes, KILAWEN. Agoeños’ culture and character is closely linked to the sea and the land they work. As the town evolves to progress, Agoeños never forget the nourishment given by their place they called home for centuries.

Agoo Semana Santa

  • Celebrated with processions and religious rites. The Good Friday Procession is something unique as life-sized icons are pulled by devotees around the towns processional road.

The End!!

Thank You for Listening :)

Reported By: Ma. Jesusa S. Balanag

Crisanta B. Mamuyac

Ryan A. Orpilla

2004

•National Finalist (Cleanest & Greenest Town in the Philippines)

• National Literacy Award(Most Outstanding LGU in Basic Literacy Promotion)

• Most Outstanding Municipal Civil Registry Office.

• Best Anti-Illegal Drug Abuse Council in Region I.

  • A

2002

• National Finalist and First Runner Up, Cleanest And Greenest Municipality in the Philippines, Gawad Pangulo sa Kapaligiran, Municipal Catergory A.

• National Champion, National Literacy Awards, Most Outstanding Local Government Unit (NFE Category).

• National Champion, Cleanest and Greenest Municipality in the Philippines, Gawad Pangulo sa Kapaligiran, Municipal Category A.

• Public Enterprise Development Award, Parangal Pangkabuhayan ng TLRC.

2003

• National Champion, Cleanest and Greenest Municipality in the Philippines.

• National Champion, National Literacy Awards, Most Outstanding Local Government Unit.

• Hall of Fame Ilocos Region, National Literacy Awards, Most Outstanding Local Government Unit for three Consecutive years from 2001-2003.

Geographical Location

Agoo is located (Proximity to Major Cities)

  • 35 kilometers south of the Regional Center, City of San Fernando
  • 49 kilometers west of the Summer Capital, Baguio City
  • 40 kilometers north of Dagupan City
  • 235 kilometers north of Manila

5,118.23 hectares

Total Land Area

  • Second smallest town in La Union.
  • During the 16th century, it was one of the largest towns where the Municipalities of Pugo and Tubao were formerly a part of Agoo.

Music: Agoo Hymn

Celebrating Santacruzan ang Moro-moro

Ideas

Notes

The Agoo

Phenomenon

Social Profile

People well-known in History

Government

Income Classification: First Class Municipality

Population (2011): 63,283

Total Number of Households: 11,977

Total Number of Families: 17,834 families

Average Annual Income: Php 113,002,264.96

Ideas

Achievements

& Accomplishments

Cultural Heritage

(Tangibles & Intangibles)

Ideas

Judiel Nieva

(born 1977), also known as Angel de la Vega, is a Filipino transgender woman, actress and businesswoman, notable for her claims of seeing a vision of the Virgin Mary atop a guava tree in Agoo, La Union in what was labeled as the "Miracle of Agoo" from 1989 until 1993.

In 2003, Nieva, who now calls herself by the screen name "Angel dela Vega", starred in a film entitled "Siklo". In the film, she plays a woman who falls in love with her neighbor.

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