The Gateway of Mindanao

Cagayan de Oro City is located at the northern coast of Mindanao, Philippines. It is the capital of Misamis Oriental province and the regional center for Northern Mindanao (Region 10). The city is popularly known for its initials CDO or CDOC.

Jeepney's hired for White Water Rafting

Cebuano or Bisaya is the city's main dialect. English on the other hand is widely used in schools, media, government and commercial transactions. People from Cagayan de Oro are called Kagayanons.

Most are brown-skinned of Malay descent and some with mixed ancestry popularly known to locals as mestizo.

Cagayan de Oro's Best Tourist Spot

The city is home to several universities and colleges. Xavier University, Liceo de Cagayan University and Capitol University are known in the fields of nursing, medicine, agriculture, engineering and commerce.

Typical Cagayanon Family: Riding a Motor Bike

Cagayan de Oro Airport run way

Cagayan de Oro is known as "The Gateway to Northern Mindanao" because of its location and good transportation facilities. However, it is through her warm and hospitable people that the city became more known as "The City of Golden Friendship".

List of Cagayan de Oro City Mayors

Below are the list of Mayor which plays Political Head of Cagayan de Oro City, the list from (1 to 12) are when Cagayan was still named Cagayan de Misamis and later Cagayan de Oro City (18 to 29)

Cagayan de Misamis to Cagayan de Oro
1. Tirso Neri 1901 – 1904
2. Cayetano Pacana 1904 – 1905
3. Pedro Velez 1905 – 1906
4. Cipriano Vamenta, Sr. 1906 – 1908
5. Isidro Vamenta 1908 – 1909
6. Anastacio Neri 1909– 1910
7. Ramon B. Neri 1912 – 1916
8. Uldarico Akut 1912 – 1916
9. Segundo Gaston 1916 – 1919
10. Pedro P. Mabulay 1919 – 1922
11. Fernando Pacana, Sr 1922 – 1925
12. Vicente P. Castro 1925 – 1928
13. Apolinar Velez 1928 – 1931
14. Lucio S. Ramos 1931 – 1934
16. Julio B. Pacana 1934 – 1937&1938 – 1941 (First Mayor to be re-elected)
17. Herminiglido Wanceña 1941 – 1945
18. Lucio S. Ramos 1946 – 1947
19. Maximo Y. Suniel 1948 – 1953
20. Pedro SA. Baculio March 1953 to December 1953
21. Justiniano R. Borja 1954 – 1964
22. Jesus V. Seriña Sr. 1964 – 1971
23. Reuben R. Canoy 1972 – 1976
24. Concordio C. Diel 1976 – 1979
25. Pedro N. Roa 1978 – 1980
26. Aquilino Pimentel Jr. 1980 – 1984
27. Pablo P. Magtajas 1984 – 1998
28. Vicente Y. Emano 1998-2007
29. Constantino G. Jaraula 2007-Present

CAGAYAN DE ORO' Kagay-an Resort

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, Philippines - The City Government is confident the local government can get back Lawndale Springs now known as Kagay-an Resort in sitio Taguanano, Barangay Indahag which was reverted into a public land by the Supreme Court (SC).

Kagay-an Resort (formerly: Lawndale Springs)

Lawyer Maryanne Enteria, head of the city legal office, said they expect no problem to arise when the City Government reapplies for a pre-patent title for the resort before the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Land Management.

She said because the local government is a government agency, it will get top priority from the DENR.

The City Government lost ownership of the 12-hectare resort in sitio Taguanao, Barangay Indahag, when the SC handed down a decision reverting the land, which is the former 105-hectare estate of Dona Josefina Graciano vda Neri, into public land.

The landmark decision penned by Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing found that the judicial title of Neri did not pass through proper government processes "even bypassing the then-Bureau of Land and the DENR."

Aside from the City Government, claimants to the estate, which include beneficiaries of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), lost all their ownership rights to the property.

The DENR has scheduled a resurvey of all properties claim by the claimants on September 9.

Last Tuesday, the DENR held a public consultation among the stakeholders - its fourth in the past four years -- inside the Kagay-an Resort.

Conrado Mahinay, OIC of Cenro's Land Management said that all the claimants including the City Government will have to reapply with the DENR so they can have the proper land titles of their property.