Cagayan ( ), officially the Province of Cagayan ( ilo, Probinsia ti Cagayan; ibg, Provinsiya na Cagayan; itv, Provinsiya ya Cagayan; fil, Lalawigan ng Cagayan), is a province in the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region, covering the northeastern tip of Luzon. Its capital is the city of Tuguegarao. It is about northwest of Manila, and includes the Babuyan Islands to the north. The province borders Ilocos Norte and Apayao to the west, and Kalinga and Isabela to the south. Cagayan was one of the early provinces that existed during the Spanish colonial period. Called ''La Provincia de Cagayan'', its borders essentially covered the entire Cagayan Valley, which included the present provinces of Isabela, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya,

Batanes Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes ( ivv, Provinsiya nu Batanes; Ilocano: ''Probinsia ti Batanes''; fil, Lalawigan ng Batanes, ), is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It i ...

and portions of Kalinga and Apayao. The former capital was Nueva Segovia, which also served as the seat of the

Diocese of Nueva Segovia The Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. It covers the province of Ilocos Sur, on the island of Luzon. The see of the archdiocese is the city of Vigan.Cagayan Valley.

Etymology

A folk legend holds that the name was originally derived from the ''tagay'', a plant that grows abundantly in the northern part of the province. The term ''Catagayan'', "the place where the ''tagay'' grows" was shortened to ''Cagayan''. Linguists, however, hold that ''cagayan'' comes from an ancient, lost word that means "river". Variations of this word—''karayan'', ''kayan'', ''kayayan'', and ''kalayan''—all mean ''river''.

History

Pre-colonial period

Cagayan has a prehistoric civilization with rich and diverse culture. According to archaeologists, the earliest man in the Philippines probably lived in Cagayan thousands of years ago. Pieces of evidence to this effect are now convincing beyond scientific doubt to consider it as an incontestable fact. In the classical era, Gattaran and Lal-lo used to be the home of hunter-gatherers who specialized in hunting mollusks. These hunter-gatherers have stockpiled their leftover mollusk shells in numerous sites in Gattaran and Lal-lo, until eventually, the shells formed into the largest stock of shell-midden sites in the entire Philippines. From available evidence, the ''Atta'' or Negritos - short dark-skinned nomads - were the first people in Cagayan. They were later moved to the uplands by the Austronesians who eventually became the

Ibanags The Ibanag (also Ybanag and Ybanak or Ibanak) are an ethnolinguistic minority numbering a little more than half a million people, who inhabit the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, and Nueva Vizcaya. They are one of the largest ethnolinguistic mino ...

Itawes The Itawes, Itawis, Hitawit or Itawit (endonym) are a group of people living in the Philippines. Their name is derived from the Itawes prefix ''i-'' meaning "people of" and ''tawid'' or "across the river". The Itawes are among the earliest inhabi ...

, Yogads, Gaddangs, Irayas and Malawegs - the natives of Cagayan - who actually came from one ethnicity. These are the people found by the Spaniards in the different villages along the rivers all over Cagayan. The Spaniards rightly judged that these various villagers came from a single racial stock and decided to make the Ibanag language the ''lingua franca'', both civilly and ecclesiastically for the entire people of Cagayan which they called collectively as the ''Cagayanes'' which later was transliterated to become ''Cagayanos''. Cagayan was a major site for the Maritime Jade Road, one of the most extensive sea-based trade networks of a single geological material in the prehistoric world, operating for 3,000 years from 2000 BCE to 1000 CE. Even before the Spaniards came to Cagayan, the Cagayanos have already made contact with various civilizations like the Chinese, Japanese and even Indians, as evidenced by various artifacts and even the presence of minor to moderate foreign linguistic elements in the languages of the natives. Various other racial strains, mainly the

Ilocanos The Ilocanos ( ilo, Tattao nga Iloko/), Ilokanos, or Iloko people are the third largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group and mostly reside within the Ilocos Region in the northwestern seaboard of Luzon, Philippines. The native language of the Ilo ...

, Pangasinenses,

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and Tagalogs, as well as Visayans, Moros and even foreigners like the Chinese, Indians, Arabs, Spaniards and others were further infused to the native Cagayanes to become the modern ''Cagayano'' that we know today. Cagayan is also the site of a Wokou state when the Japanese pirate-lord Tay Fusa, set up his Japanese pirate kingdom in Cagayan before it was destroyed during the

1582 Cagayan battles The 1582 Cagayan battles were a series of clashes between the forces of the Spanish Philippines led by Captain Juan Pablo de Carrión and wokou (possibly led by Japanese pirates) headed by Tay Fusa. These battles, which took place in the vicini ...

Spanish colonial period

In 1581, Captain Ivan Sabala arrived in Cagayan with a hundred fully equipped soldiers and their families by order of

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, the fourth Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. The expeditionary force was sent to explore the Cagayan Valley, to convert the natives to Catholicism, and to establish ecclesiastical missions and towns throughout the valley. On June 29, 1583, Spanish ''conquistador'' Juan de Salcedo traced the northern coastline of Luzon and set foot on the Massi (Pamplona), Tular, and Aparri areas.

La Provincia de Cagayan

In 1583, through a Spanish Royal Decree, the entire northeastern portion of Luzon (specifically, all territories east of the Cordillera mountains and those north of the

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) including the islands in the

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were organized into one large political unit called the ''La Provincia de Cagayan''. The ''provincias territorial delineation encompassed the present provinces of

, Isabela, Quirino, Nueva Vizcaya, including portions of Kalinga and Apayao. Its capital was ''Nueva Segovia'' (the present municipality of Lal-lo). The Spanish friars soon established mission posts in

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and Lal-lo (''Nueva Segovia''), which became the seat of the Diocese established by Pope Clement VIII on August 14, 1595. A founding population of 200 Spanish citizens from Europe accompanied by 100 Spanish soldiers set up settlements across Cagayan Valley. These people were in turn supplemented by 155 Latin American soldiers recruited from Mexico. The

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was moved in 1758 to Vigan because of its relative distance. The Spanish influence can still be seen in the massive churches and other buildings that the Spaniards built for the spiritual and social welfare of the people. In 1839, Nueva Vizcaya was established as a politico-military province and was separated from Cagayan. Later, Isabela was founded as a separate province on May 1, 1856, its areas carved from southern Cagayan and eastern Nueva Vizcaya territories. During the late 18th century, the

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government encouraged the expansion of trade and development of commodity crops. Among these was tobacco, and lands in Cagayan became the center of a vertically integrated monopoly: tobacco was grown there and shipped to Manila, where it was processed and made into cigarettes and cigars. The development of the related bureaucracy and accounting systems was done under the leadership of

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, who as visitor-general to Mexico from 1765 to 1772 developed the monopoly there and increased revenues to the Crown. He worked in the Philippines as Minister of the Indies from 1776 to 1787, constructing a similar monopoly there under

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(1778–1787).Jane Baxter, Chris Poullaos, ''Practices, Profession and Pedagogy in Accounting: Essays in Honour of Bill Birkett''
Sydney University Press, 2009, pp.152-161 The Spanish development of this industry affected all their economic gains in the Philippines. The establishment of the civil government of Cagayan through the 1583 Spanish Royal Decree is commemorated in the annual Aggao Nac Cagayan celebrations of the Provincial Government of Cagayan and its people. Cagayan province 1918 map

American period

When the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1898, ending the Spanish–American War, the United States took over the Philippines. It influenced the culture, most notably in agriculture and education, as well as in public works and communications. A naval base also increased interaction between local Filipinos and American sailors and administrators. At the close of the 18th century, there were 29 municipalities in the province of Cagayan. After the Philippines came under American sovereignty in 1902, more municipalities were founded. Since then, due to centralization and shifting of populations, the number of municipalities is back to 29. A new wave of immigration began in the late 19th and 20th centuries with the arrival of another group of the Ilocano settlers who came in large numbers. They now constitute the largest group in the province, and it was only in this large-scale Ilocano immigration & settlement that made Ilocano language replaced Ibanag as the ''lingua franca'' of the province.

World War II

During the Second World War, with air raids by Japanese fighters and bombers, the province of Cagayan suffered much destruction by bombing and later invasion.

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entered Cagayan in 1942. While under the Japanese Occupation, several pre-war infantry divisions and regular units of the Philippine Commonwealth Army were re-established during the period on January 3, 1942, to June 30, 1946. They established general headquarters, camps and garrisoned troops in the province of Cagayan, and began operations against the Japanese Occupation forces in the Cagayan Valley. This included sending troops to the provinces of Cagayan and Isabela, and helping the local soldiers of the 11th and 14th Infantry Regiment of the USAFIP-NL, the local guerrilla fighters and the U.S. liberation forces. They fought against the Japanese Imperial forces from 1942 to 1945. The Battle off Cape Engaño on October 26, 1944, was held off Cape Engaño. At that time American carrier forces attacked the Japanese Northern Force. This became the concluding action of the

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. The Japanese lost 4 carriers, 3 light cruisers and 9 destroyers. In 1945, the combined United States and Philippine Commonwealth ground troops, together with the recognized guerrillas, took Cagayan. Part of the action were the Filipino soldiers of the 1st, 2nd, 12th, 13th, 15th and 16th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, 1st Constabulary Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary and the 11th and 14th Infantry Regiment of the United States Armed Forces in the Philippines – Northern Luzon or USAFIP-NL from the Battle of Cagayan Valley during the Second World War.

Post-war era

During the 1970s and 1980s, Cagayan became known as a bailiwick of

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, who as Secretary and later Minister of National Defense became one of the most powerful figures during the Martial Law period under President

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. His influence enabled the construction of Port Irene, a modernized international harbor facility in Santa Ana that was named after Marcos' daughter

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, which later formed the basis for the creation of the Cagayan Special Economic Zone and Freeport, whose enabling law was authored by Enrile as a Senator in 1995 and now includes Santa Ana and parts of Aparri. Despite Enrile's defection in the 1986 EDSA People Power Revolution, Cagayan remained as one of the few bastions of Marcos supporters in the so-called "Solid North" region of northern Luzon. However, this did not prevent the province from being one of the hotbeds of the NPA rebellion starting in the 1970s. During that time, logging concessions were awarded in the province by the Marcoses to Enrile and other cronies, leading to the severe degradation of forest cover in the province that contributed to widespread flooding and other environmental issues that persist today. Cagayan was also the site of the Hotel Delfino Siege in Tuguegarao, which took place on March 4, 1990, when efforts to arrest suspended governor Rodolfo Aguinaldo for supporting rebellions against the government of President

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led to him storming the provincial capital and taking hostages including his would-be arresting officer, Brigadier General Oscar Florendo of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Civil Relations Service. The stand-off deteriorated into a series of gun-battles throughout the town, with Florendo being killed presumably in a crossfire inside the hotel and Aguinaldo managing to escape and go into hiding before later surrendering and being cleared of legal charges by winning reelection in 1992.

Geography

Situated within the Cagayan Valley region, the province is bounded by the

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on the east; on the south by Isabela province; on the west by the Cordillera Mountains; and on the north by the

and the

Babuyan Group of Islands The Babuyan Islands ( ), also known as the Babuyan Group of Islands, is an archipelago in the Philippines, located in the Luzon Strait north of the main island of Luzon and south of Taiwan via Bashi Channel to Luzon Strait. The archipelago consi ...

. About from the northeastern tip of the province is the island of Palaui; a few kilometers to the west is Fuga Island. The

, which includes Calayan, Dalupiri, Camiguin, and

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, is about north of Luzon mainland. The eastern coast forms the northern portion of the Sierra Madre mountain range, while the western limits are generally hilly to low in elevation. The central area, dominated by a large valley, forms the lower basin of the country's longest river, the Cagayan. The

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is located at the northern town of Aparri. The province of Cagayan comprises an aggregate land area of which constitutes approximately three percent of the total land area of the country, making it the second largest province in the region.

Administrative divisions

Cagayan comprises 28 municipalities and one

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divided into three congressional districts. It has 820 barangays. Tuguegarao City (as of December 18, 1999) is the provincial capital, regional seat, and center of business, trade, and education and the only city in the province.

Barangays

The 28 municipalities and 1 city of the province comprise a total of 820 barangays, with ''Ugac Sur'' in Tuguegarao City as the most populous in 2010, and ''Centro 15 (Poblacion)'' in Aparri as the least. If cities are excluded, ''Maura'' in Aparri has the highest population.

Climate

Cagayan has a tropical savannah climate ( Aw) with hot days and warm nights that last year round.

Demographics

The population of Cagayan in the 2020 census was 1,268,603 people, with a density of . The majority of people living in Cagayan are of Ilocano descent, mostly from migrants coming from the Ilocos Region. Originally, the more numerous groups were the Ibanags, who were first sighted by the Spanish explorers and converted to Christianity by missionaries, the reason why the Ibanag language had spread throughout the valley region prior to the arrival of the migrating Ilocanos. Cagayan is predominantly Roman Catholic with 85% of the population affiliated and the Aglipayan Church has a very strong minority in the province. Aside from Ilocanos and Ibanags, Malawegs, Itawits, Gaddangs, groups of nomadic Aetas, as well as families of Ibatans who have assimilated into the Ibanag-Ilocano culture make Cagayan their home. More recently, a new group from the south, the Muslim Filipinos, have migrated to this province and have made a community for themselves. In addition to this, Tagalog-speaking peoples from Central Luzon and Southern Luzon have also settled in the area, as well as a few Pangasinans and

from the central plains. Major languages spoken are Ilocano followed by Ibanag,

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and Gaddang. Ilocanos and Ibanags speak Ilocano with an Ibanag accent, as descendants of Ilocanos from first generation in Cagayan who lived within Ibanag population learned Ibanag; same situation with Ilocano tinged by Gaddang, Paranan, Yogad, and Itawis accents when descendants of Ilocanos from first generation in Cagayan who lived within Gaddang, Paranan,

, and Itawis populations learned their languages. People especially in the capital and commercial centers speak and understand English and

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/ Filipino. Tagalogs, Ilocanos, and Ibanags speak Tagalog with an Ibanag accent, as descendants of Tagalogs from first generation in Cagayan who lived within Ibanag population learned Ibanag.

Endangered languages

There are two endangered indigenous languages in Cagayan. These are the ''Dupaninan Agta'' language (with fewer than 1400 remaining speakers) and the ''Central Cagayan Agta'' language (with fewer than 799 remaining speakers); both of these are listed as ''Vulnerable'' according to the UNESCO ''Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages''. All remaining speakers of the languages are among the community's elders. Without a municipality-wide teaching mechanism of the two endangered languages for the youth where the languages are present, the languages may be extinct within 3-5 decades, making them languages in grave peril unless a teaching-mechanism is established by either the government or an educational institution in the municipalities of Gattaran and

Baggao Baggao, officially the Municipality of Baggao ( ibg, Ili nat Baggao; ilo, Ili ti Baggao; tl, Bayan ng Baggao), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 87,753 p ...

Economy

Agricultural products are rice, corn, peanut, beans, and fruits. Livestock products include cattle, hogs, carabaos, and poultry. Fishing various species of fish from the coastal towns is also undertaken. Woodcraft furniture made of hardwood, rattan, bamboo, and other indigenous materials are also available in the province. Claveria Cagayan

The Northern Cagayan International Airport is a planned airport in Lal-lo. The airport will be built to support the Cagayan Special Economic Zone in northern Cagayan, which also serves seaborne traffic through Port Irene. The airport project will involve the construction of a 2,200-meter runway, with a width of 45 meters, following the standards of the International Civil Aviation Organization. Once completed, the planned international airport can accommodate large aircraft such as the Airbus A319-100 and Boeing regional jets of comparable size.

Tourism

Since Cagayan faces the

, an extensive shoreline sprawls along the northern coastal towns of

Sanchez Mira Sanchez Mira, officially the Municipality of Sanchez Mira ( ibg, Ili nat Sanchez Mira; ilo, Ili ti Sanchez Mira; tl, Bayan ng Sanchez Mira), is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it h ...

, Pamplona, Santa Praxedes, Claveria,

Buguey Buguey, officially the Municipality of Buguey ( ibg, Ili na Buguey; ilo, Ili ti Buguey; tl, Bayan ng Buguey), is a 3rd class municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to ...

, Aparri, Ballesteros, Abulug, and the islands of Palaui, Fuga, and island municipality of Calayan. Sanchez Mira, Claveria, and Santa Praxedes have facilities for excursion stays while Fuga Island is being developed as a world-class recreation and tourism center. Activities include whale watching at the Calayan Islands, and scuba diving, snorkeling and fishing in Palaui Island of Santa Ana. The airstrip at Claveria could be used as a jump-off point to Fuga Island. The Sambali Festival is celebrated throughout the province in commemoration of its founding. Hotels include the Governors Garden Hotel, Hotel Candice, Hotel Roma and Hotel Kimikarlai all in Tuguegarao City. Claveria is host to several scenic attractions which include: the ''Lakay-Lakay Lagoon'', the rocky formation along the ''Camalaggaon Caves'', the ''Roadside Park'' overlooking the Claveria Bay, ''Macatel Falls'' with its clear waters that run in abundance throughout the year, the ''Pata Lighthouse'', and the Claveria Beach Resort along the white sand coasts.

Notable personalities

* Bretman Rock - beauty influencer and social media personality. From Sanchez Mira, Cagayan. * Kakai Bautista - actress and comedian. * Paco Román - Filipino- Spanish soldier and later became a revolutionary during Philippine Revolution and

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. Roman had the rank of a colonel in the revolutionary army, and served as the close aide of General Antonio Luna. From Alcala, Cagayan. * Cesar Adib Majul - Philippine historian best known for his work on the history of Islam in the Philippines and on the life of Apolinario Mabini. *

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Ricardo Baccay Ricardo Lingan Baccay (born April 3, 1961) is the fourth Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao. Biography Ricardo Lingan Baccay was born in Tuguegarao on April 3, 1961. Finishing his secondary studies in San Jacinto Seminary, his courses i ...

- third Bishop of the Diocese of Alaminos, Pangasinan and former Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Tuguegarao. Born in Tuguegarao. * Eulogio Balao - former Secretary of the Department of National Defense and former Senator of the Republic of the Philippines, from Tuguegarao City. * Diosdado P. Banatao - entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry. From Iguig, Cagayan. * Lilia Cuntapay - An actress, also known as the "Queen of Philippine Horror Films", from Gonzaga, Cagayan. *

Maja Ross Andres Salvador Maja Ross Andres Salvador-Ortega (; born October 5, 1988) is a Filipinos, Filipino Actor, actress, Performing arts, performer, Television presenter, television host, occasional producer, and talent manager. Referred to as the “Majestic Super ...

- a popular actress of ABS-CBN, born and raised in barangay Canayun, Abulug, Cagayan. * Silvestre Bello III - secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment from Gattaran, Cagayan. *

Arthur Tugade Arthur "Art" Planta Tugade (born January 9, 1946) is a Filipino businessman and lawyer from Cagayan who served as the Secretary of the Department of Transportation under the Duterte administration from 2016 to 2022. He previously held the posi ...

- secretary of the Department of Transportation from Claveria, Cagayan. *

- cabinet secretary and minister under Presidents

(

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, Justice and

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) and

(Defense), Senator (1987-1992, 1995-2001, 2004-2016) and President of the Senate of the Philippines (2008-2013), from Gonzaga, Cagayan

References

External links

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Official Website of the Provincial Government of Cagayan
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