Camalaniugan is a 4th class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 21,186 people in 4,106 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_cagayan_camalaniugan. ... A municipality (bayan in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Cagayan is a province of the Philippines in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Camalaniugan is politically subdivided into 28 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
Cagayan is a province of the Philippines in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon.
Cagayán province is distinct from the city in Mindanao named Cagayan de Oro, and is far away from Cagayan Islands of Palawan.
In 1581, Captain Juan Pablo Careon came to Cagayan with one hundred fully-equipped soldiers with their families by order of Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peñaloza, the fourth Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines, to explore the Cagayan Valley and to convert the natives to Christianity as well as to establish ecclesiastical missions and towns throughout the valley.
The Province of Cagayan occupies the lower course of the river, and the northeast corner of the island of Luzon (with a few offshore islets).
Cagayan's area is 9,003 sq.km., its population 952,000 (by the 2000 census) in twenty-nine towns, of which Tuguegarao is the capital.
Cagayan has much to offer visitors: beaches, swimming, snorkeling, skin-diving, fishing in the river and the sea, hiking in primeval forest, mountain-climbing, archaeological sites, the remarkable collection of the provincial museum, the Callao Caves, and many fine churches.