: The Iloilo Domestic Port or popularly known as " Fort / Port San Pedro ", serves inter-island passenger and cargo ferries which serves the routes Manila, Bacolod, Cebu, Zamboanga and Cagayan de Oro.

The longest river is the Cagayan River or Rio Grande de Cagayan in northern Luzon measuring 354 kilometers.

Cagayan Valley ( Lambak ng Cagayan in Filipino ; Tana ' nak Cagayan in the Ibanag language ; Tanap ti Cagayan in the Ilocano language ) is a region of the Philippines, also designated as Region II or Region 02.

It is composed of five provinces, namely: Batanes with Basco as the capital, Cagayan, Tuguegarao City as the capital, Isabela considered to be the heart of the region with Ilagan as the capital, Nueva Vizcaya with Bayombong as the capital, and Quirino with Cabaruguis as the capital.

Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan is a private, Roman Catholic university run by the Society of Jesus in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.

Francisco Z. Araneta, S. J., then rector, had vowed to St. Francis Xavier that if ever Ateneo de Cagayan is conferred as a university before its Commencement Exercises on March 22, 1958, he will rename the university after the saint.

Aparri is a 1st class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Luzon, Philippines.

But it was established as one of the major ports of the Galleon Trade on May 11, 1680 because it is located at the mouth of the mighty Cagayan River towards the flourishing city of then Nueva Segovia.

Aparri is one of the most famous towns in Cagayan, rivaling that of Tuguegarao, the capital city.

The strait is approximately wide containing a number of islands grouped into two groups: the Batanes Islands of Batanes province and the Babuyan Islands of Cagayan province, both of the Philippines.

The Cebu Strait connects the western part of Bohol Sea with Camotes Sea, and is a major sea-lane connecting Cebu City on its northern end with port cities in the south such as Dumaguete City and Cagayan de Oro City.

Cagayan Valley ( Filipino: Lambak ng Cagayan, Ibanag: Tana ' nak Cagayan, Iloko: Tanap ti Cagayan, Malaueg: Ga-dang yoh Cagayan ) is a region of the Philippines, also designated as Region II or Region 02.

It is composed of five provinces, namely: Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, and Quirino.

Cagayan Valley is the largest region of the Philippines in terms of land area.

Cagayan Valley is the vast mass of land in the northeastern region of Luzon, comprising today the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino.

The Cagayan Valley Region II is defined by the Cagayan River.

As the historian and missionary Jose Burgues, said, The old Cagayan Valley comprises the province of Cagayan, Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya as well as the military Districts of Apayao, Itaves, Quiangan, Cayapa and Bintangan, plus the area of the Sierra Madre to the Pacific Ocean in hte said trajectory.

Nueva Vizcaya is the remnant of the southern province created when Cagayan Province was divided in two in 1839.

The province of Isabela is the richest in Cagayan Valley.

The Cuyo Islands and Cagayan Sulu are part of the province of Palawan while Mapun and the Turtle Islands are part of the province of Tawi-Tawi.

Politically, the Babuyan Islands are part of the Philippine province of Cagayan.

Cagayan province is distinct from the city in Mindanao named Cagayan de Oro, and is far away from Cagayancillo of Palawan or Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi Island in the Sulu Sea.

Thus, “ Catagayan ” which means a place where the tagay grows abundantly was shortened to “ Cagayan ,” the present name of the province.

At the close of the 18th century, there were 29 municipalities in the province of Cagayan.

Beginning the Second World War, the air raid of the Japanese fighters and bomber planes was invaded, bombed and destroyed around the province of Cagayan and founded in 1942, the Japanese Imperial forces entered in Cagayan.

During the Second World War under the Japanese Occupation, over several pre-war infantry divisions and regular units of the Philippine Commonwealth Army was re-established from 1942 to 1946 at the general headquarters, camps and garrisoned here the province of Cagayan and begins the battles and invasions for the Anti-Japanese Operations in Cagayan Valley included to sending the province 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 was defeated and fought against the Japanese Imperial forces from 1942 to 1945.

* Malaueg Church in Rizal, Cagayan, Philippines-The famous Dominican Church in the Philippines

Cagayan de Oro, Philippines

* Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines

Pineapples in a fruit stand in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines.

* The Basilica Minore of the Our Lady of Piat, Piat, Cagayan, Philippines

In 2003, the first allotment garden of the Philippines was established in Cagayan de Oro City, Northern Mindanao as part of a European Union funded project.

Aparri sits at the mouth of the Cagayan River, the longest river in the Philippines, about 55 miles north of Tuguegarao, the provincial capital.

Whitewater Rafting along the Cagayan de Oro River, Philippines.

* 2011: Philippines, Cagayan de Oro and Iligan City, 17 December 2011.

On January 11, 2008, the Cagayan Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources ( BFAR ) stated that tilapia ( species of cichlid fishes from the tilapiine cichlid tribe ) production grew and Cagayan Valley is now the Philippines ’ tilapia capital ( Saint Peter ’ s fish ).

They are found south of Cagayan Valley, northeast of the Central Luzon Plains.

The raid resulted in the capture of many Sama Balangingi and the exile of many to the tobacco fields of Cagayan Valley.

Following this accomplishment, the corps turned northward and began the systematic reduction of the enemy positions on the approach to the Cagayan Valley.

During Spanish times Cagayan Valley had a larger territory than what it has today.

Archaeology indicates that the Cagayan Valley has been inhabited for half a million years, though no human remains of any such antiquity have yet appeared.

The Philippine Republic's Region II, Cagayan Valley, contains two landlocked provinces, Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya.