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Traditionally, until 2019 and since 2025, it marked the start of the school year and formerly the university academic year (until the move to August in 2015-17). The holiday marked the end of the school year for students of basic academic institutions from 2020 to 2024 and today serves as the end of the university and college academic year.
Poverty incidence of Cagayan de Oro 5 10 15 20 25 30 2006 19.40 2009 22.75 2012 7.73 2015 8.86 2018 9.07 2021 6.80 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Cagayan de Oro is the regional center and logistics and business hub of Northern 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 ...
The Higalaay Festival (formerly known as Kagay-an Festival, then to Higalaay Kagay-an Festival in 2014 [1]) is a patronal festival held each year in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, every 28th day of August, celebrating the feast day of St. Augustine – patron saint of the city.
CDO started with selling siopao with a longanisa filling, longanisa and tocino products. [3] In 1981, the company registered as a corporation under the name CDO Foodsphere Inc. with CDO becoming the flagship brand. [2] It opened its first modern factory in Canumay, still in Valenzuela in 1990 amidst the early 1990s financial crisis. It opened ...
Liturgical feast of the Santo Niño de Cebú according to the Philippine National Liturgical Calendar. Sinulog Festival: 3rd Sunday Cebu, Cebu City (variants in Kabankalan City, Maasin City, Balingasag Misamis Oriental, Cagayan de Oro, Butuan, and Southern Leyte throughout the years) Honours the Santo Niño de Cebú [6] Silmugi Festival: 20 [12 ...
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro (Latin: Archidioecesis Cagayana) is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the Philippines. It is a metropolitan see on the island of Mindanao , which comprises the civil provinces of Misamis Oriental and Camiguin , as well as the municipality of Malitbog, Bukidnon .
It is normally only a school holiday for the schools near the processional route, but for the first time in the city's history, Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada in 2014 declared the day a special non-working holiday due to the impassability of some thoroughfares and projected congestion in others. His successors as City Mayor kept the practice.
Bonifacio Day is a national holiday in the Philippines, commemorating Andrés Bonifacio, one of the country's national heroes. He was the founder and eventual Supremo of the Katipunan, a secret society that triggered the Philippine Revolution of 1896 against the Spanish Empire. It is celebrated every November 30, the birth anniversary of Bonifacio.