Cagayan de Oro, officially the City of Cagayan de Oro, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the region of Northern Mindanao, Philippines. It is the capital of the province of Misamis Oriental where it is geographically situated but governed administratively independent from the provincial government.

What year Cagayan de Oro become a city?

Cagayan de Oro was chartered as a city in 1950 and has become the transportation and commercial hub of northern Mindanao.

Who discovered Cagayan de Oro?

Etymology. The name Cagayan de Oro (lit. River of Gold) can be traced back to the arrival of the Spanish Augustinian Recollect friars in 1622, the area around Himologan (now Huluga), was already known as "Cagayán". Early Spanish written documents in the 16th century already referred to the place as "Cagayán".