Cagayan
Cagayan, officially the Province of Cagayan, is a province in the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region, covering the northeastern tip of Luzon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tuguegarao and Aparri.
Tuguegarao
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Tuguegarao is the only city in Cagayan province, and is the transportation hub for the region. It is the regional center of Cagayan Valley, with a reputation for hot weather.
Aparri
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Aparri is a town of about 69,000 in northern Cagayan. It lies at the mouth of the Cagayan River which drains into the Bashi Channel. This article covers only the mainland portion; Fuga Island, while administratively part of the town, is considered its own destination.
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Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Lal-lo.
Lal-lo
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Lal-lo, Gattaran and Lasam are three rural municipalities in northern Cagayan. The former have the Lal-lo and Gattaran Shell Middens and the Magapit Protected Landscape, while Lasam is a smaller municipality that used to be part of Gattaran until 1950.
Cagayan
- Type: State with 1,280,000 residents
- Description: province of the Philippines
- Also known as: “Cackejen”, “Cagajaen”, “Cagayan province”, “Cagayen”, “Cagejan”, “Cagiaen”, “Cagian”, “Cakejen”, “Catagayan”, “Kackajen”, “kahayan”, “Kakajen”, “kalayan”, “karayan”, “kayan”, “kayayan”, and “Province of Cagayan”
- Neighbors: Ilocos Norte
- Categories: province of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Cagayan Valley, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
18° northLongitude of center
121.8333° or 121° 50′ eastPopulation
1,280,000Elevation
18 metres (59 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 305704566OpenStreetMap feature
place=state
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Waray—“Cagayan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Cagayan”
- Achinese: “Propinsi Cagayan”
- Arabic: “كاغايان”
- Asturian: “Cagayan”
- Balinese: “Cagayan”
- Banjar: “Cagayan”
- Bengali: “কাগায়ান”
- Capiznon: “Cagayan”
- Catalan: “Cagayan”
- Cebuano: “Cagayan”
- Cebuano: “Lalawigan sa Cagayan”
- Central Bikol: “Cagayan”
- Chavacano: “Cagayan”
- Chinese: “Cagayan”
- Chinese: “加牙因省”
- Chinese: “卡加延省”
- Chinese: “卡加揚省”
- Chinese: “卡加煙省”
- Chinese: “嘉牙因省”
- Czech: “Cagayan”
- Danish: “Cagayan”
- Dutch: “Cagayan”
- Esperanto: “Kagajano”
- Filipino: “Palagao Norte”
- Filipino: “Palagao”
- Finnish: “Cagayan”
- French: “Cagayan”
- Georgian: “კაგაიანი”
- German: “Cagayan”
- German: “Provinz Cagayan”
- Gorontalo: “Cagayan”
- Greek: “Καγκαγιάν”
- Gujarati: “કેગયન”
- Hiligaynon: “Cagayan”
- Hindi: “कागायान प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “कागायान”
- Hungarian: “Cagayan”
- Iloko: “Cagayan”
- Indonesian: “Cagayan”
- Indonesian: “Kagayan”
- Indonesian: “provinsi Kagayan”
- Italian: “Cagayan”
- Italian: “provincia di Cagayan”
- Italian: “Provincia di Cagayan”
- Japanese: “カガヤン”
- Japanese: “カガヤン州”
- Javanese: “Cagayan”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಗಾನ್”
- Kinaray-A: “Cagayan”
- Korean: “카가얀주”
- Latin: “Cagayan”
- Latvian: “Kagajana”
- Macedonian: “Кагајан”
- Malay: “Cagayan”
- Marathi: “कॅगयन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cagayan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “加牙淵省”
- Min Nan Chinese: “加牙鄢省”
- Min Nan Chinese: “迦牙燕省”
- Minangkabau: “Cagayan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cagayan”
- Norwegian: “Cagayan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cagayan”
- Pampanga: “Cagayan”
- Pangasinan: “Cagayan”
- Persian: “کاگایان”
- Polish: “Cagayan”
- Portuguese: “Cagaiã”
- Portuguese: “Cagayan”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Cagayan”
- Russian: “Кагаян”
- Sinhala: “කගයාන්”
- Slovenian: “Cagayan”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاقایان”
- Spanish: “Cagayan”
- Spanish: “Cagayán”
- Sundanese: “Cagayan”
- Swedish: “Cagayan”
- Tagalog: “Cagayan”
- Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Cagayan”
- Tagalog: “Probinsiya ng Cagayan”
- Tagalog: “Probinsya ng Cagayan”
- Tamil: “ககயன்”
- Tamil: “கேகயன்”
- Telugu: “కాగేయాన్”
- Tetum: “Cagayan”
- Thai: “คากายัน”
- Thai: “จังหวัดคากายัน”
- Turkish: “Cagayan”
- Ukrainian: “Кагаян”
- Urdu: “کاگایان”
- Venetian: “Cagajan”
- Vietnamese: “Barbuda”
- Vietnamese: “Cagayan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cagayan”
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