In the picturesque northwestern tip of Northern Luzon, overlooking the China Sea on the north and west lies the town of Burgos which is one of the towns of Ilocos Norte organized in the 17th century, in the year 1662 to be exact.

Burgos was first known as Nagpairtan because a group of wild and fierce people who were extra ordinary tall and who were known as Mamburi, prohibited the Christians especially the Malayans to settle and build their homes, who likewise fled from the ravages of fierce and cruel Moroes who frequented the coastal settlements of the Northwestern region of Luzon.

Burgos was not easily accessible by the sea and by land at that time so, feeling safer in this mountainous part of the region, the evacuees decided to stay in Nagparitan and hold their ground. They were able to do so with the valiant defense achieved by the brave men among the Christians called Scrapa, Riuac, Ambayog and Serrano. The planted bamboos around Nagparitan to strengthen their defense and these bamboos could still be seen around the poblacion until lately.

Then the Spaniards settled here in Nagparitan. But because of hard labor white slavery and other oppressing acts induced to the people by the Spaniards the people staged a revolt, captured a priest, butchered and scattered parts of his body to certain places of the locality. It was believed that places where the body parts have been laid, the soil turned red, because at present, there are parts of the locality wherein the soil is red. And because of this incident, the Spaniards changed the name Nagparitan, which means "prohibit" to Nagparitan, which means "the place of slaughter."

In 1913, Burgos was incorporated with the town of Bangui but later in 1913, many towns that were fused to municipalities of better income became independent again because of increased revenue and Burgos was one of them.

Senior Juan Ignacio was the first President Municipal of the once more independent town.