BANGUED, a municipality (with administration centre and 18 barrios or districts) and capital of the mountainous province of Abra, Luzon, Philippine Islands, located in the interior some what over a mile from the Abra river and not far from the sea. Pop. (1918), 13,892, of whom 6,621 were males and two whites. The region round about produces mainly corn, tobacco and rice. In 1918, it had 758 household industry establishments with output valued at 174,000 pesos; and eight schools, all public. The natives are chiefly IIocanos.