[3] Gattaran's historic spots and tourist landmarks include the Lal-lo and Gattaran Shell Middens, Magapit Protected Landscape, Maduppaper Caves, the Mapaso Hot Spring and the Tanglagan Falls whose warm and cold waters meet and flow together on one bed to become the Dummun River.

1600's, but this excerpt taken from Lobato de Santo Tomas version 1854) called it 'Najjiping' from the Ibanag word for 'conjoined, twins'.

The name of Gattaran itself is believed to originate from the word gattad which means "mountain-side", a reference to the town being flanked by the Sierra Madre mountains.

Since each of these towns had few inhabitants and had only one priest to administer to their religious needs, they were merged for ecclesiastical convenience into one municipality in 1877 by virtue of a Diocesan Order from the Bishop of Nueva Segovia (Lallo).

In 1944, the war's escalation led to the town's depopulation, with its inhabitants fleeing to the Sierra Madre or to the Zinundungan Valley in the west, now part of Lasam.

In 1950, the barrios of Gattaran to the west of the Cagayan River was separated to form the town of Lasam.

The shell-midden sites are currently being conserved by the local government from looting to preserve its outstanding universal value.

Poverty Incidence of Gattaran Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] Gattaran, belonging to the first legislative district of the province of Cagayan, is governed by a mayor designated as its local chief executive and by a municipal council as its legislative body in accordance with the Local Government Code.