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Cagayan de Oro
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Cagayan de Oro

City (pop., 2000: 461,877), northern Mindanao, Philippines. Located along the Cagayan River near the head of Macajalar Bay, it was established as a mission station in the 17th century and fortified by the Spaniards. Chartered as a city in 1950, it has become northern Mindanao's transportation and commercial hub.


Cagayan de Oro 

a city and port in the Philippines, on the northern part of the island of Mindanao, on the Bay of Macaja-lar. It is the administrative center of Misamis Oriental Province. Population, 92, 600 (1969). It is a center of the fishing industry and also has food-processing enterprises and garment factories.



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Regional civil defence director Carmelito Lupo said that most of those whose homes were destroyed were from Cagayan de Oro city but officials were still trying to get information on the situation in the surrounding areas.
More than 900 people were on board the 10,192-tonne vessel, which was travelling to Cagayan de Oro City when it burst into flames and sank on February 27.
7 Miles) south east of Cagayan de Oro City, is accessible through an all-weather farm-to-market road.
 
 
 
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