Towns and Cities of Pampanga:
Guagua – a town in Pampanga
Guagua is known for its furniture, interior church paintings and wood carvings. Location on
Pampanga’s river tangle to manila bay, the town is named after the word “wawa” (engl. mouth of
the river). Early inhabitants of the town were already engaged in trade and barter in terms of
fishing and farming industries with the Chinese merchants. Politically, the town plays important
role in the revolutionary struggles of the Filipinos against foreign invaders. The Guagua Public
market is the biggest and well known tough the entire province.
Wawa Filipino writing still of the Chinese Hua-Hua (by Chinese traders on Guagua) which called
Philippine Hokkien (Speak by the Chinese local people in the Philippines) and during the Spanish
period they change it to Guagua in accordance with Spanish terminology.
Picture Gallery: Guagua