el toro bumingo 2: Tuguegarao City, Cagayan

Sunday, October 11, 2020

Tuguegarao City, Cagayan

Tuguegarao City is huge. Establishments are spread in wide area. My Tuguegarao-based Aunt lives in Balzain area and traveling to other parts of Tuguegarao City takes time, mostly by tricycle. My US-based Aunt and I stayed at Casa Angela for 2 nights. It’s a few blocks away from Tuguegarao Cathedral (also known as Saint Peter Metropolitan Cathedral).

Tuguegarao City is the capital of Cagayan Province. The provincial capitol is located quite far from the town center.

There are huge malls across the city, like Robinson’s Place and SM Center Tuguegarao, and you can find a lot of establishments found in Manila. I feel like I’m in Manila but it’s wider and gives you a lot of space.

After visiting Tuguegarao Cathedral, we also visited the Cagayan Museum and toured around downtown Tuguegarao. It’s also a starting point if you’re traveling to other parts of Cagayan like Piat, Iguig, Peñablanca and even to Tabuk, Kalinga. Too bad I’m just an alalay during this trip and doesn’t have the privilege to travel by jeep on my own.

Here’s more information about this bustling city from PhilAtlas:

Tuguegarao is a landlocked component city in the coastal province of Cagayan. It serves as the provincial capital as well as the regional center of Cagayan Valley.

The city has a land area of 144.80 square kilometers or 55.91 square miles which constitutes 1.56% of Cagayan's total area. Its population as determined by the 2015 Census was 153,502. This represented 12.80% of the total population of Cagayan province, or 4.45% of the overall population of the Cagayan Valley region. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 1,060 inhabitants per square kilometer or 2,746 inhabitants per square mile.