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Cagayan Valley Travel March 2009

Cagayan Valley (Lambak ng Cagayan in Filipino;Tanap ti Cagayan in the Ilocano Language) is a region of the Philippines, also designated as Region II or Region 02. It is composed of five provinces, namely: Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, and Quirino. Its regional center is Tuguegarao City. Here, the valley of cagayan region welcomes the visitors as seen from the last area of Nueva Ecija, San Jose City... The Cagayan Valley Region II is defined by the Cagayan River, the largest in the Philippines. Archaeology indicates that the Cagayan Valley has been inhabited for half a million years, though no human remains of any such antiquity have yet appeared. The earliest inhabitants are the Agta, or Atta, food-gatherers who roam the forests without fixed abode. A large tract of land has lately been returned to them. The bulk of the population are of Malay origin. For centuries before the coming of the Spanish the inhabitants traded with Indians, Malays, Chinese, and Japanese. In the ni