Editing Cagayan Valley (section)

{{short description|Administrative region of the Philippines}}
{{About|a region in the Philippines|other uses|Cagayan (disambiguation)}}
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{{Use Philippine English|date=November 2022}}
{{Infobox settlement
| official_name      = Cagayan Valley
| native_name        = ''Tanap ti Cagayan''
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| image1                   = KIRKAMON SABTANG ISLAND, BATANES.jpg
| image2                   = Batanes lighthouse at Basco - Flickr.jpg
| image3                   = Quirino 1.jpg
| image4                   = Allan Jay Quesada - Tumauini Cathedral - afternoon exterior DSC 0158.jpg
| image5                   = Palaui Island Sta. Ana, Cagayan.jpg
| image6                   = Callao Cave - rays of second skylight (6965384447).jpg
| image7                   = Bayombong Church Nueva Vizcaya 1.jpg
| image8                   = Saint Peter Metropolitan Cathedral Tuguegarao front (Rizal Street, Tuguegarao, Cagayan; 11-18-2022).jpg
| image9                   = Buntun Bridge from Tuguegarao City, Mar 2024.jpg
| image10                 = Sabtang Batanes.jpg
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'''Clockwise from the top''': [[Sabtang|Sabtang Beach]], [[Quirino|Governor's Rapids]], [[Palaui Island Protected Landscape and Seascape|Palaui Island]], [[Bayombong Cathedral]], [[Buntun Bridge]], [[Sabtang|Sabtang Island]], [[Tuguegarao Cathedral]], [[Callao Cave]], [[Tumauini Church]], and [[Basco Lighthouse]].
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| seat               = [[Tuguegarao]]

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| population_est     = 3,657,741<ref>{{cite web|date=August 27, 2020|title=POPULATION PROJECTIONS BY REGION, PROVINCE, CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES, 2020-2025|url=https://www.doh.gov.ph/node/15619|access-date=October 16, 2020|work=www.doh.gov.ph|publisher=Department of Health|archive-date=May 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210514203439/https://doh.gov.ph/node/15619|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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| blank1_info_sec2   = [[Philippine peso|₱]]510.83 billion<br />[[USD|$]]9.18 billion<ref name="grdp">{{Cite web |title=2021 to 2023 Gross Regional Domestic Product (GRDP)|url=https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/grdp/tables |access-date=April 26, 2024 |publisher=Philippine Statistics Authority|website=openstat.psa.gov.ph}}</ref>
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'''Cagayan Valley''' ({{langx|ilo|Tanap ti Cagayan}}; {{langx|fil| Lambak ng Cagayan}}), designated as '''Region II''', is an [[Regions of the Philippines|administrative region]] in the [[Philippines]]. Located in the northeastern section of [[Luzon]],<ref name="NSCB" /> it is composed of five [[Provinces of the Philippines|Philippine provinces]]: [[Batanes]], [[Cagayan]], [[Isabela (province)|Isabela]], [[Nueva Vizcaya]], and [[Quirino]]. The region hosts four chartered cities: [[Cauayan, Isabela|Cauayan]], [[Ilagan]], [[Santiago, Isabela|Santiago]], and [[Tuguegarao]] (the regional center and largest city).<ref name="PSA-CitiesList" />

Most of its land area lies in the valley between the [[Cordillera Central (Luzon)|Cordilleras]] and the [[Sierra Madre (Philippines)|Sierra Madre]] mountain ranges. The eponymous [[Cagayan River]], the country's largest and longest, runs through the region, flows from the [[Caraballo Mountains]], and ends in [[Aparri]]. Cagayan Valley is the second-largest Philippine administrative region by land area.<ref>[http://www.dotregion2.com.ph/d2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=53 Cagayan Valley] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511235653/http://www.dotregion2.com.ph/d2/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49&Itemid=53|date=May 11, 2013}}, Department of Tourism - Region 2, Retrieved June 21, 2012</ref> According to a literacy survey in 2019, 93% of Cagayan Valley's citizens (ages 10 to 64) are [[Functional literacy|functionally literate]], which is 5th out of the 17 [[regions of the Philippines]]. <ref>{{cite web | url=https://psa.gov.ph/statistics/education-mass-media/node/163646 | title=&#124; Philippine Statistics Authority &#124; Republic of the Philippines }}</ref>

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