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THE HISTORY OF GUAGUA
FROM `WAWA TO `GUAGUA
According to Fray Diego Bergaño, author of the first published Pampango grammar, in , the name WAWA (now GUAGUA), which is of Hindu-Malayan origin, emanated from the vernacular word ALWA or ALAWA which means the mouth of a river. On account, perhaps, of its proximity to the mouth of a river, this old settlement was named WA W A
Similar to how the Spanish writers made `Pampang Pampanga; `Candawe Candaba; `Baba Lubao; Dayat Arayat; Bakulud Bacolor, etc., the original name of the town, `WAWA; was modified by the Agustinian friars and re-christened it GUAGUA in the year However, there has been no lucid explanation to this change. One historian suspected that the indecorousness of WAWA (which means `saliva) could have prompted the Spaniards to modify it to GUAGUA. Furthermore, inasmuch as WAWA refers to a body of water, `GUAGUA could have came from the Spanish word `aqua (which means water). Or could it be that the absence of the letter `W in the Spanish alphabet, WAWA was made GUAGUA.
EARLY INHABITANTS
The pre-historic inhabitants of Guagua might have been any of the several ethnographic groups that trickled, through t
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