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Geography
Cagayan de
Oro City, the capital of Misamis Oriental province, covers a
496.3-square-kilometer area. Located along
the central coast
of the Northern Mindanao Region, the city lies on a valley
in the middle of which runs the Cagayan
River.
The
city sits 491 miles south of the national capital, Metro
Manila. From Metro Manila, it takes about an hour and 20
minutes by air and 30 hours by sea.
Its boundaries
are: Barangay Bugo in the east, Barangay Iponan in the west,
Barangay Tumpagon in the south, and
the Macalajar Bay in the
north.
The city
has a fairly good weather profile all year round, with
seasonal rains particulary during the period May to
October.
The city has not experienced a typhoon over the last 50
years.
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Population |
Map of Cagayan de Oro City |
(2000):
461,877
Annual
growth rate (1999-2000): 3.12%
No. of
households: 93,525
Average
household size: 4.91
Cagayan
de Oro has the highest annual population growth rate at 3.12% in
Region X (Northern Mindanao) with an average of only 2.26%. The
city’s growth rate is also higher than the national average of
2.34%. |
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Language / People
Locals are known
as Kagay-anons
Cebuano is the
most common dialect because many of the locals are immigrants from
Cebu and Bohol. English is also widely spoken. |
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Economic Status
Cagayan de
Oro serves as the economic center of Region X which covers the
provinces of Surigao del Norte, Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur,
Camiguin, Bukidnon, Misamis Oriental and Misamis Occidental. It
is also the major base of the Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Corridor
Special Development Project.
The city is highly-urbanized with several shopping malls that
are already up and under construction, including two owned by
the country’s major mall developers, namely SM Prime and
Robinson’s.
It is also a university town being home to the Jesuit-run Xavier
University, among others.
It has an airport and a wharf/port at the Macalajar Bay which
serves as the main interisland outlet for agricultural produce
of the Misamis Oriental province and neighboring Bukidnon.
The Del Monte pineapple processing and canning plant is about 15
kilometers east of the city proper. The pineapple plantation is
about 20 more kilometers further out in a hilly area above
Cagayan.
Major
products / Industries
Owing to
the presence of Del Monte, Cagayan de Oro’s major produce is
pineapple which is used for both its fruit (canned) and leaves
(for piña cloth, the fabric of the male national clothing
Barong Tagalog).
Cagayan de Oro also has a wide native products industry which
are sold locally as well as for export. It has several
manufacturing companies that process raw materials into
intermediate and finished products. |
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Brief
History
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Cagayan de Oro
(with “de Oro” meaning “golden ”) is tagged by its people as the
City of Golden Friendship. Originally, though, the province
derives its name
from the gold found by the Spaniards in the Cagayan
riverbed in the 1500s. |
Cagayan de Oro
was established by the Spaniards as a mission station in the
1600's. It became a chartered city in 1950.
At the start of the 1900s, Cagayan
de Oro was just a small community but has over the
decades grown into the Misamis Oriental’s bustling commercial,
economic, financial and educational cente |
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