The City of Cagayan de Oro; (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Cagayan de Oro; Filipino (Tagalog): Lungsod ng Cagayan de Oro), is the provincial capital city of the Province of Misamis Oriental and classified as first class city. Abbreviated CDO, CDOC, CdeO or Cag. de Oro, lies along the northern coastline on the Mindanao island, southern part of the Philippines.
It is considered as the melting pot of Mindanao in the Philippines because of its accessibility, business growth, attractions and most of its entire warm and hospitable people. The city serves as the regional center being the most populous highly urbanized city in Northern Mindanao (Region X). According to the 2007 Census, the city has an estimated population of about 553,996 inhabitants.
Cagayan de Oro is known by many nicknames such as "Gateway to Northern Mindanao" because of its location and good transportation facilities, "Rafting Capital of the Philippines", it is a primary whitewater rafting destination in the Philippines that has a whole year round of maneuverable rafting courses and is located within the city limit, "ICT Goldmine of the Philippines" due to its number of ICT infrastructures and businesses mushrooming the city providing job opportunities for ICT personnel and "A City in Bloom, in Blossom and in BOOM!" because of the great strides it has made by way of progress, notably in the last few years.
Officially, Cagayan de Oro is dubbed locally as the "City of Golden Friendship" (Dakbayan sa Bulawanong Panaghigalaay) for its warm people. The official city seal bears this phrase. There are also other places in the Philippines with a Cagayan name. One must distinguish Cagayan de Oro from Cagayan Province in Northern Luzon and the Cagayan Islands in the Sulu Sea.
-Wikepedia-(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cagayan_de_Oro_City)
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