Piat is a 4th class municipality in the province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 20,524 people in 3,975 households. 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
Piat is politically subdivided into 18 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.
Piat today has aptly earned the distinction as the "Antipolo of the Northern Luzon," "Mecca of the Devoted Pilgrims," and the "Pilgrimage Center of the Cagayan Valley." Each year, thousands of devotees and tourists flock to its miraculous Lady of the Hill - the Nuestra Señora de la Visitacion de Piat.
The Lady of Piat is famous for her intercession for the sick, the poor, and the troubled.
The Lady of Piat was canonically crowned as Queen of Heaven and Earth on June 20, 1954 in Tuguegarao, Cagayan.
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