Oroquieta City is a 3rd class city in the province of Misamis Occidental, Philippines. It is the capital city of Misamis Occidental.According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 59,843 people in 12,417 households. A city (lungsod, sometimes siyudad, in Filipino) is a tier of local government in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Misamis Occidental is a province of the Philippines located in the Northern Mindanao region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
The word Oroquieta came from the Spanish words 'Oro' which means gold and 'Quieta' which means found.
Barangays
Oroquieta City is politically subdivided into 47 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
In OroquietaCity alone, the power supply is much less expensive compared to other cities in the regions of Visayas (Cebu City) and Luzon (Manila).
Looking closely at the aerial view of OroquietaCity, this city is a prime location for big investment opportunities had infrastructure been the mainstream of the Government's plan twenty years ago.
To contrast the community components of the "old" OroquietaCity is totally different from the "today's" OroquietaCity.