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The name Bauan comes from a Tagalog word bauang which means a close or concealed and rugged mountains (Noceda-Sanlucar, Vocabulario, 1860, p. 43).  It was also said that one day a Spanish official asked a group of local farmers what was the place called.  The farmers replied “bawang”, a local term for garlic, believing that what the official wanted to know was what they were planting.  This happened when the farmers were planting garlic at the old site of Bauan along Taal Lake.  From that time on, the place was known and registered as Bauang, which later became Bauan.