Cagayan de Oro – City of Golden Friendship

CAGAYAN DE ORO

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Cagayan de Oro is a first class highly urbanized city and the capital of the province of Misamis Oriental. It is a chartered city where governance is independent and separate from the province of Misamis Oriental.

Cagayan de Oro is located along the north central coast of Mindanao, the second-largest island in the Philippine archipelago.

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Its total land area is 488.86 km² representing 13.9 percent of the entire Misamis Oriental province. It includes 25 kilometers of coastline and a harbor, Macajalar Bay. 44.7 percent of Cagayan de Oro is classified as agricultural land, while 38.4 percent is classified as open spaces.

Under the Köppen climate classification system, Cagayan de Oro has a tropical climate with an annual average temperature of 28 °C. In June 1998, the city recorded its highest temperature to date of 39 °C.

Cagayan de Oro does not receive an even amount of rainfall throughout the year. The driest months are March and April while August and September are the wettest months. The rainy or wet season lasts from June until November with the relatively drier seasons lasting from December until May. The city lies outside the typhoon belt but is affected by the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone.

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Cagayan de Oro is the melting pot of Mindanao because of its accessibility, business growth, attractions and its warm and hospitable people. Being the regional center, logistics and business hub of Northern Mindanao, the city is one of the most progressive and competitive cities in the Philippines.

Cagayan de Oro as the economic center of Northern Mindanao (Region 10) fuels the region’s growth due to its economic dynamism, government efficiency, access to an enormous concentration of City’s markets of more than 600,000 people, appropriate infrastructure such as the multi-berth Macabalan Baseport, the Mindanao Container Terminal (MCT) which facilitates direct and cost-efficient movement of containerized cargoes to Manila, Cebu and international shipping hubs, Laguindingan Airport which services air logistics requirements of Cagayan de Oro.

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Cagayan de Oro due to its strategic location prompted Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation to put up its multi-billion peso fuel import facility, dubbed as the North Mindanao Import Facility (NMIF) to cater to the power and energy needs of millions of residents, motorists and other end-users and consumers in Visayas and Mindanao.

The city’s economy is largely based on industry, commerce, trade, service and tourism. Investment in Cagayan de Oro City for the first six months of 2012 reached 7.4 billion pesos outpacing the local government’s expectation of to nearly 100 percent. Investments in the city are dominated by malls, hotels, condominiums, subdivisions, industrial and power plants. The net income for 2012 pegged at 2,041,036,807.89 billion pesos.

As the gateway to Northern Mindanao and the rest of Mindanao, Cagayan de Oro is very accessible via land, air and water transportation.

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The Port of Cagayan de Oro in Macabalan is located near the estuary of the Cagayan de Oro River. It has an anchorage depth of 18 meters and is around 400 meters from the shoreline. It has two authorized cargo-handling operators. With the recent completion of the P250 million rehabilitation project, the port is now the biggest international and domestic seaport in Mindanao. Read More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagayan_de_Oro

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