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The Cagayan River, also known as the Río Grande de Cagayán, is the longest river [3] [1] and the largest river by discharge volume of water in the Philippines. It has a total length of approximately 505 kilometres (314 mi) and a drainage basin covering 27,753 square kilometres (10,715 sq mi). [ 2 ]
During the arrival of the Spaniards in Cagayan de Oro, the name was changed to Cagayan River. [2] [3] The name of the river Cagayan comes from the Malayo-Polynesian word "Ag", which means water. "Kagay" means river and "Kagayan" is place with a river. [4] This river is not to be confused with the country's longest and largest river of the same ...
18 Major River Basins in the Philippines Rivers in the Philippines are grouped into 18 major river basins . Of these, the Cagayan , the country's longest river, [ 1 ] has the largest drainage basin, followed by the Mindanao , the Agusan , and the Pampanga .
With a length of 46 kilometres (29 mi), the river originates in the Sierra Madre [2] and passes through the Peñablanca Protected Landscape and Seascape, [1] with large karst formations, underground chambers, and rare wild flora, before entering the Cagayan River in Tuguegarao, Cagayan. [2]
The most extensive river in the Cordillera region, it covers the provinces of Mountain Province, Kalinga and Cagayan. It is referred to as a "river of life" for the Kalinga people who live on its banks, and is well known among development workers because of the Chico River Dam Project, an electric power generation project which local residents ...
[19] [20] The advent of modern machinery like tractors are slowly displacing carabaos in their role as draft animals. [21] [22] The traditional equipment used with the carabao is a plow or harrow attached to the animal by a yoke. In modern times, carabaos are also used to plow fields for crops that grow on dry land, like corn, sugarcane, or ...
The lobed river mullet (Cestraeus plicatilis [2]), also known as ludong or banak, [3] is a freshwater mullet. While it is claimed to be endemic to Cagayan River and tributaries extending through the watersheds of Cagayan Valley and the Santa-Abra River Systems of Ilocos Sur and Abra in the Philippines, [4] verifiable and reliable sources have listed Celebes, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and ...
The Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis), also known as the Mindoro crocodile, the Philippine freshwater crocodile, the bukarot [4] in Ilocano, and more generally as a buwaya in most Filipino lowland cultures, [4] is one of two species of crocodiles found in the Philippines; the other is the larger saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).