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Highly urbanized city

Median family income: P240,000
Population: 701,859 (est. 2003)
Population Density (persons per square kilometer) 1,038
Urban 1,939
Rural 131
Poblacion 11,979
Non-Poblacion 961
Growth rate: 4.2%
Greater Cagayan population: 803,295 (est. 2003)

Land Area (in hectares/square km.)

Urban…………………….48,885.83 / 488.8583 100%
Rural……………………9,922.90 / 99.2290 20.30%
Poblacion……………342.14/3.4214 0.70%
Non-Poblacion………48,543.69 / 485.4369 99.30%


Boundaries:
North……………….. Macajalar Bay
South……………….. Bukidnon
East………………… Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental
West………………... Opol, Misamis oriental
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Maxandrea Hotel
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River view Inn
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Pryce Plaza Hotel
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Pearlmont Inn
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QueensLand
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De Luxe Hotel
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CLICK THAT LINK! :)

Lim Ketkai Mall
Lim Ketkai Center
Mall interior
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Around the CBD.
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Gaisano City
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Ororama MegaCenter
Lim Ketkai Center
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SM City
Pueblo de Oro Business Park
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Robinsons Cagayan de Oro
Lim Ketkai Center
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Imperial
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(Lim Ketkai Center is CDO's Central Business District)

Yes, please post @kush. Cagayan De Oro City is one of my favorites. Not only is it beautiful, the people are so friendly and kind.

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Cagayan de Oro Airport
(The International Airport is now u/c)

guys, im having a hard time posting a pic,, if u wanna see cdo's pic visit www.cagayan-de-oro.com , or you can post that for me. pls

^^ i'll try looking for some pics from the web..

Cagayan de Oro here in Philippine forums is very silent but i believe that this city is also one of the booming cities in our country, comparable to that of bacolod and iloilo. This city not well advertised, and people ended up thinking that this just a small and quiet city.

i think there are a lot of developments going around CDO
CDO pips, please post news, informations and photos about these:


P6.5 billion international airport
Mindanao container terminal
CDO port expansion
proposed Railways
proposed arena
internation conference center
ayala land development
whitewater rafting
CDO - Iligan corrigdor development
Glass plant construction
xavier university

what else? hmm

and oh.. the malls there.. limketkai, sm etc..:)
:)

:)

yes, i guess the ayala has started the ground breaking at the Indahag mountains. it's gonna be a 160 hectars complex with mall, condo, office tower, theme park, villages.

wait, i'll find articles about these things.

Ayala is investing P4Billion for this:) i'll just look for that news:)

Ayala to put up P4-B center in Cagayan de Oro
Ellen P. Red
Business World
January 17, 2005


CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY -- Ayala Corp. plans to build a P4-billion complex in Bgy. Indahag in this city that will feature shopping malls and high-rise condominiums.


This was learned from Mayor Vicente Emano, who said Ayala Corp. representatives visited city hall recently to discuss the project.


He also said that with an initial investment of P2 billion growing to P4 billion in several years, the Ayala project would help create jobs for city residents.


Cagayan de Oro currently hosts nine mixed-use shopping malls: SM City, Robinsons' Big R Super Center, Limketkai Center, and three malls each for the Gaisano and Ororama groups.


Limketkai, a pioneering mall developer in this city, is developing its Limketkai Center into a central business district. Aside from the shopping mall, the center now hosts open cafes, restobars, and a few townhouses. Limketkai mall also features an atrium that can accomodate 4,500 people.


Limketkai proposes to put up condominium units, a hospital with links to US-based specialists, a commercial building for private offices, and a government building that will house local and national government offices.


Part of its plan is the development of a one-hectare area into a basement parking, ground floor department store, four modern theaters on the third floor, and a 320-room business hotel.


The 30-hectare Limketkai Center opened in June 1991. So far, nine hectares have been developed. Two of the biggest locators in the center are Plaza Fair and Robinsons.

2 giant firms to begin CDO projects this year
Cagayan de Oro City (14 January) -- IT will be another big year for the city of Cagayan de Oro in terms of investments and business.

Mayor Vicente Y. Emano said two companies will start their big projects in the city, this year.

He announced that the Ayala Development Corporation will pursue the construction of a business complex at barangay Indahag. It will be pouring in an initial capital of P2 billion.

Meanwhile, Mayor Emano said two months from now, a bulk water supply project amounting to P1 billion will also be implemented in the city.

He is optimistic that this will contribute to the development of Cagayan de Oro as a growing metropolis.

These two investments will definitely boost the development and expansion of the city, as well as provide thousands of jobs for the poor, the mayor added. (Office of the City Council) [top]

One thing i dont know why the Ayala prioritizes CDO more than Davao? since Davao is the identified next to cebu, ryt? I dont know if they have plans putting a center in Davao.

we need photos of Cagayan de Oro here :)

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=218059 this is the previous thread

Is the Mindanao Railway back on track?

The SunStar CdO has the story:

THE $520 million Mindanao Railway System is now gathering grounds as more foreign investors recently intimated their desire to construct this project, said Misamis Oriental Congressman Augusto Baculio, Jr.

Baculio said this include the master plan grant from the government of Germany, the regulating framework for the project and agreement with Austria for a Philippine National Railways Academy.

“We are doing our best to push for the realization of the project despite budget constraints,” the congressman said Saturday.

Already, The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) reported that Germany and Saudi Arabia have announced its intentions to invest a whooping P18 billon for the construction of the Mindanao Railway.

“Germany will invest 220 million Euros or P15.4 billion while Saudi Arabia will lend $40 million and donate another $10 million or a total of P2.705 billion,” the report reads.

The investment would partly finance the 83-kilometer Cagayan-Cotabato Phase of the project that would link the cities of Iligan, Cagayan de Oro, Gingoog, Marawi and Cotabato by 2008.

The project is expected to benefit 60,000 to 90,000 commuters in the Iligan-Cagayan de Oro “industrial corridor” daily.

Germany-based Siemens would provide 12 trains with speeds of 80 to 150 kilometers per hour.

yeah, i've tried but i had a hard time posting some...

i would really like to post esp the beaches of opol

One thing i dont know why the Ayala prioritizes CDO more than Davao? since Davao is the identified next to cebu, ryt? I dont know if they have plans putting a center in Davao.

Yes, Ayala already has plans to build a mall in Davao months ago...

Thanks for those articles @Kush... Now, the article I read was true about Ayala going full blast in the Mall business. :)

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CAGAYAN DE ORO!

Cagayan de Oro is a bustling regional trade and commercial center, the hub of Northern Mindanao and transshipment point to various key destinations; Cebu in the Central Philippines; Manila, the national capital; and neighboring Asian markets.

The city's strong regional orientation is reflected in its large concentration of service industries, government offices, banks, and the facilities of some of the most successful multinational corporations-Del Monte, Coca-Cola, Nestle, and San Miguel to name a few.

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How about in Iloilo? It would be nice if ayala is all over the country like sm and robinsons, but still classy and elegant which SM i guess has lost.

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Welcome to Cagayan de Oro City, capital of the Philippines’ natural resource-rich region of Northern Mindanao. Cagayan de Oro is the ‘City of Golden Opportunities’ and is home to many agribusiness firms and service industries. The city’s key economic role in the region is very much reflected in its large concentration of banks, hotels, brokerage and other firms.

Cagayan de Oro is the favorite shopping and entertainment destination in the region. Its ecologically centered growth makes it one of the best planned, most livable, peaceful and safe cities in the Philippines.

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Thanks for that sinjin.... nice pics.

How about in Iloilo? It would be nice if ayala is all over the country like sm and robinsons, but still classy and elegant which SM i guess has lost.

Yes, to list the Ayala mall prospects, here they are:
>2nd mall in Cebu
>Iloilo
>Davao
>Bacolod
>Sucat, Paranaque
>Las Pinas
>latest! CDO City

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Cagayan de Oro City's population grew fastest between 1975-1980 at an average annual rate of 6.589 %. Between 1980-1990, the rate dropped to 4.096%, but increased again to 4.45 % between 1990-1995. As of the last national census (1995), the city's population was 428,314; its households numbered 84,085. Going by its population growth rate as of the last census, the city is expected to double its population by the year 2010.

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sinjin, could u post the pics at www.cagayan-de-oro.com?

sinjin, could u post the pics at www.cagayan-de-oro.com?

okay, For a while... :)

Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Solon urges completion of airport by '06
By Lizanilla J. Amarga

THE construction of the almost 10-year delayed $107 million Laguindingan International Airport should be completed before the end of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's term in 2010.

This plea was aired by Misamis Oriental Second Dist. Rep. Danilo Lagbas to his colleagues during his privilege speech in Congress last Monday.

He recounted to his colleagues how back in 1996 the National Economic Development Authority (Neda) deferred consideration of the airport project.

"This means in the project planning lingo as a project that is already dismissed," he said, adding that the dropping was made upon the recommendation issued by the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC).

During the Senate committee budget hearing that same year, Lagbas said then Senator Gloria Macagapal-Arroyo managed to persuade Neda to put back the project in the National Investment Priority Plan.

He said much have been done for the project including how funds were secured such as a loan from the Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF).

"But still nothing happened," he said.

Lagbas said the EDCF initial loan is to be augmented by ongoing negotiations with the same EDCF, Korean EXIMBANK, and the Nordik Bank.

Troubled

He said the government has already disbursed a substantial amount from the loan proceeds that included P66 million to Yooshen Engineering for consultancy services and the DOTC has disbursed P220 million from its regular budget allocation from 1996 to 2003.

"Yet up to this day, we are left in the dark as to the exact status of the Laguindingan Airport Project. There was a sudden suspension of the implementation of the project," he said.

Before the May 2004 Elections, Arroyo has so promised Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro that she would undertake the full construction of the Laguindingan International Airport in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental.

But when she lost heavily in the May 2004 elections here in Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro, the project has suddenly been forgotten.

Mayor Vicente Emano said the funds for the project were diverted to fund the Iloilo International Airport in Iloilo City where Arroyo won in the Presidential Race.

This time, Lagbas told his colleagues that he was troubled by how the Laguindingan International Airport was "dropped" from the National Government's list of priority projects.

He said the DOTC secretary has informed him that Laguindingan Airport Project is no longer a priority project of the government during the Committee on Appropriations Budget Hearing for the 2005 Budget.

"NEDA dropped Laguindingan airport project from the List of Priority Projects," he said.

Buck-passing

Lagbas said he was also informed that the responsibility in implementing Laguindingan project has been transferred to the PIC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Development Corporation.

"There is an apparent buck passing among agencies tasked to implement this project," he said.

Nevertheless, he said he does not question the wisdom of this move as this is "the sole prerogative of the Executive Department."

"We are only askig PIC, to treat Laguindingan Airport Project, with the same degree of importance as South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), North Luzon Expressway and other infrastructure projects that they have identified. We are just asking PIC to speed-up its implementation," he said. "We are asking PIC to accomplish this project during the GMA administration."

Lagbas has requested that the congressional committee on transportation and communication should look into the offer made by China Shenyang International Economic Corporation.

He said their loan offers does not require any counterpart but only a sovereign guarantee.

Already, at least P286 million has been spent on the project. The government has so far admitted that it could not as yet start the actual construction of this project as it has difficulties of raising the $35 million or some P1.950 billion loan counterpart.

actually the ayala cdo have been planned even before 2003. i don't know what caused the delay...

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NORTHERN MINDANAO
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Location. Cagayan de Oro is geographically located between the central coastline of Macajalar Bay and the naturally rich plateaus and mountains of Bukidnon and Lanao del Norte to the south. It is bounded by the two municipalities of Misamis Oriental : Tagoloan and Opol on the east and west respectively. It is situated 491 miles (810 air kilometers) south of Metro Manila, an hour and twenty (20) minutes away by plane and thirty (30) minutes from Cebu. Travelling by sea, it is thirty (30) hours from Manila and four (4) to nine (9) hours from Cebu. By land, the city can be reached within forty (40) hours from Manila.


Getting here
by Air. From Manila 1hr 25 mins, Cebu 45 mins, Davao 25 mins, Gen. Santos 1 hr, Cotabato 40 mins.

by Sea. From Manila 30 hrs, Cebu 8 hrs.

by Land. From Manila, 3 days, Davao 8 hrs, Gen Santos 8 hrs, Cotabato City 5 hrs, Illigan 1 hr.

Land Area. The city has a total land area of 488.86 square kilometers, representing 13.7% of the entire Misamis Oriental. It has about 25 kilometers of coastline and a fine deep water harbor within Macajalar Bay.

Topography. Cagayan de Oro City is characterized by a narrow coastal plain along the Macajalar Bay and by highland areas separated by steeply inclined slopes. The lowland is relatively flat and elevation is not more than 10 meters above sea level. The highlands which bound the city in the south from east to west. They consist of plateaus, terraces, hills, mountains, canyons and gorges bound the city in the south from east to west.

Soil Type. The soil type of Cagayan de Oro is predominantly clay. Other textures range from sand, loam to clay loam.

Land Use Classification. As of 1998, Cagayan de Oro's actual land use on the zoning ordinance is generally classified into agricultural and non-agricultural. The agricultural area represents 72.58% of the total area. The non-agricultural (27.42%) is further classified into zoning districts

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Land/Forest. Some 20,000 hectares of land are devoted to agricultural crops. Clay is the predominant type of soil. Other types are sand loam and clay loam. Thick forests, now the object of conservation efforts, blanket the hills and mountains that hem the city.

Aquatic/Coastal. Macajalar Bay is both a natural harbor for passenger and cargo vessels and a source of fish products for the city's population. A number of its coastal districts host large and medium-sized fish farms.


Mineral. Cagayan de Oro is endowed with rich metallic and non-metallic mineral resources. Its non-metallic deposits which include limestone, feldspar, sand and gravel are widely used for industry and agriculture. Evidence of gold, platinum and iron deposits have been recorded in several districts in the city's outskirts.


Livestock and Poultry. The hog population remains highest among livestock, comprising 58% in 1995. Hogs rank highest in number among the most slaughtered animals. All animals slaughtered passed the meat inspection standard.

i will post a pic of the newly opened hotel at the uptown cdo soon. its a 80 room international hotel owned by the HotelKoresco chain.

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Cagayan de Oro City lies safely outside the Pacific typhoon belt. It is blessed with generally fair weather and evenly distributed annual rainfall. For this reason, it has been the choice location for decades of large corporate plantations.

Average temperature: 27’ Celsius
Average humidity: 80%
Dry Season: November - April
Wet Season: May - October
Average number of rainy days per year: 156
Annual rainfall (1997): 27.42 mm to 28.8 mm

cagayan de oro:)

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Population. The native Cagayanon is a mixture of Maranaw, Bukidnon, Spanish, American and Chinese blood. The city experienced the fastest population growth between the 1975-1980 period with an annual rate of 6.589%. During the 1980- 1990 intercensal period, the rate dropped to 4.096%, but it slightly increased again to 4.45% between the years 1990-1995. As of 1998, the recorded population size was 485,996. Growing at an annual rate of 4.45%, it is expected that this number will double by the year 2010. The number of households in 2000 (based on preliminary result of the NSO 2000 Census) was placed at 94,000.


Languages Spoken. Cebuano is the local dialect. Majority of the people however, can speak and understand Tagalog and English; the latter is the official language of business.

Religious Affiliations. Roman Catholic is the dominant religion. Other religious affiliations include Protestants, Baptists, Fundamentalists, Iglesia Ni. Kristo, Philippine Independent Church, Islam, and Pentecostal.

Average Annual Family Incomes. In 1998, Cagayan de Oro's average household income was 15% higher than the average urban areas in the country and 3/4 as big as that of Metro Manila.

Labor Force. Cagayan de Oro City's population is relatively young. With a literacy rate of 97.30%, the city has a highly trainable labor force.

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The area in or around Cagayan de Oro was settled as early as 1,600 BC from the Late Neolithic Period to the Metal Age. Evidences of this settlement were discovered in 1970 by field researchers of the National Museum in a cave dwelling and adjacent open site known as the Huluga Caves area, some 8 kilometers south of the present city site. The cave yielded human skeletal remains, pottery, potsherds, tools, and other ornaments. It also yielded glass beads, probably of Indian origin, as well as Chinese pottery fragments, and vestiges of possible Annamese and Thai wares, proof that the people who lived in the site were engaged in trading across the seas. The open site on the other hand, yielded potsherds

and Chinese celadon sherds as well as obsidian flakes, volcanic glass used as cutting tools. A skull fragment from the skeletal remains in one of the caves was brought to the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, California for a dating technique known as acid racemization, which process revealed the date of the materials. The Hulugan Caves find is considered as the oldest chronological age ever established in the whole of Mindanao. The Huluga Caves area was pre-historic Cagayan de Oro..

The first recorded visit by Spaniards in Cagayan was in the year 1622, when two Augustinian Recollect missionaries first came to the Huluga Caves area, then already known as Himologan. Here they encountered a group of native Filipinos of a mixed stock of Bukidnons and Visayas. The men had a mass of tatoos on their bodies very much like the pintados of the Visayan Islands. The women had intricate jewelries which included those made of gold. These first missionaries were Fray Juan de San Nicolas and Fray Francisco de la Madre de Dios. From the chronicles of these two Recollect friars, we are told when they found the Himologan people, there were no traces of Islamization in the area. In fact, the religious culture was shamanistic and the objects of worship were a polytheistic animism. However, the people paid tributes to Sultan Kudarat through his emissaries from the Lanao area. Sultan Kudarat therefore was able to extract a nominal influence among the Cagayan people.

When the Recollect friars arrived in 1622, the area around Himologan was already known as "Cagayan". In fact, early Spanish documents in the 1500s already referred to the place as "Cagayan". The area of Northern Mindanao which included Cagayan, was granted as an encomienda to a certain Juan Griego on January 25, 1571. How did this name originate, when we also known that there is a Cagayan in Lugzon and a Cagayan in Sulu? Language researchers trace the etymology of the name "Cagayan" as coming from the Proto-Philippine language, the root of many Filipino language. In this language, which was Malayo-Polynesian, the word for water was "ag". "Agus" was the "flow of the water" hence "agusan" was "the place where there is a flow of the water". In that same language, "kagay" meant "river". "Kagay-an" meant "the place of the river". That is the root of the name of Cagayan, derived from the great river that runs through the city.

The settlement of Himologan was located on a cliff overlooking this river. In 1626, another Augustinian Recollect friar was assigned to Cagayan, the young Portuguese Fray Agustin de San Pedro. He was only 26 years old but was trained in mathematics, architecture, gunnery, and military skills at the University of Salamanca before joining the Augustinian Recollect order. The Recollect chronicles relate that Fray Agustin convinced the leader of Himologan, Datu Salangsang, to move the site of his settlement down river, to the area of today's Gaston Part and San Agustin Cathedral. Such was the founding of Cagayan in the year 1626. Here, Fray Agustin built a church of native materials where Datu Salangsang and his wife were baptized as Christians, the first converts of Cagayan. The rest of the chieftain's people followed. This was the Christianization of Cagayan.

At the time, news reached Sultan Kudarat of the coming of Spanish missionaries in the Cagayan area. Wanting to regain back the tributes that he earned from Cagayan, Kudarat sent a fleet of warriors to drive away the Spanish missionaries. It was because of the frequent tensions with Kudarat that drove Fray Agustin to build a fortress and watchtower in Cagayan to protect the native population. Fray Agustin's defense of Cagayan made him known as "El Padre Capitan". This wooden fortress, known as the Fuerza Real de San Jose, was located around the area of today's Gaston Park which contained the church and garrison as the center of town. The fortress was rebuilt much later in stone in 1730, but was demolished in 1875 by then the Spanish politico-military governor of Misamis, Lt. Col. Jose de Carvallo, who used the stones to pave the streets of the town.

The Recoletos established Cagayan as their mission center in 1674, San Agustin as the patron of Cagayan was adapted only on August 28, 1780. The first church built earlier by the Recoletos was reconstructed in 1845 by Fray Simon Loscos de Santa Catalina. It was made of marine stones imported from China and had protruding buttresses and a single belfry. Inside, there was a magnificent altar and sanctuary with carved wooden niches and paintings. This church was destroyed during the bombing of Cagayan in 1945, exactly a hundred years after its reconstruction.

In 1818, the Spanish colonial government in Manila divided Mindanao into politico-military districts. Cagayan became a part of the Segundo Distrito de Misamis, the largest district in Mindanao which encompassed today's Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental, Camiguin, Bukidnon, Lanao, Zamboanga del Norte, and the northern part of Cotabato. However, the capital of the district was the town of Misamis along the Bay of Panguil, today known as Ozamis City, where there was a much bigger Spanish fort and garrison. The name of the district, in fact, was derived from that town. It was only on February 27, 1872 that Spanish Governor General Carlos Maria de la Torre issued a decree in Manila adapting Cagayan as the permanent capital of the District of Misamis. The Spanish politico-military governor of Misamis, who always carried the rank of lieutenant colonel, resided at the Casa Real de Cagayan, built in 1831, the site of today's City Hall of Cagayan de Oro. During this era, the name of the town was "Cagayan de Misamis".

In 1888, the Recoletos erected a wooden Santa Cruz outside the San Agustin Church, the same cross which still stands today outside the present San Agustin Cathedral.

In late August of 1896, the Katipunan revolution against Spain broke out in Luzon. Exactly a month after, or September 29, 1896, a group of Filipinos from Luzon deported to the Spanish fort in Iligan for military discipline, mutinied against the Spanish Officers and soldiers after receiving instructions from the Katipunan in Manila. They were able to raid the Spanish armonry, and with ammunitions in hand, proceeded to Cagayan to attack the town. On the way to Cagayan, they ransacked all the convents and homes of Spanish peninsulars along the way. From Cagayan, they proceeded to Bukidnon where a band of natives joined the resistance. They then attacked Balingasag, and raided the outpost of Gingoog on January 1897, by that time, news of Rizal's execution had reached Cagayan and Misamis, and this further angered the townfolks, fanning the flames of the local Katipuneros. It took a Spanish gunboat, recalled from the Tercio Distrito de Surigao, to subdue the resistance. This was the only known Katipunan revolt in the whole of Mindanao.

On December 10, 1898, the Treaty of Peace between the warring United States and Spain signed in Paris. Immediately, the reigning Spanish governor of Misamis resigned and relinquished his authority to the Filipino local officials of Cagayan town and Misamis province who were elected according to the provisions of General Emilio Aguinaldo decreed earlier in Malolos on June 1898. The first Filipino governor of Misamis was Jose Roa y Casas and the first municipal mayor of Cagayan was Toribio Chaves. The revolutionary junta already ruled Cagayan by late December 1898. On January 10, 1899, the town of Cagayan celebrated the First Philippine Republic of Aguinaldo with a two-day celebration known as the Fiesta Nacional with a parade, music, speeches, and the boom of cannonades outside the Casa Real. It was the first time that the Aguinaldo Republic was proclaimed in Mindanao and the first time that the new Filipino tricolor flag was raised in Mindanao. This local government ruled uninterrupted until the invasion of the Americans on March 1900.

The Americans invaded Cagayan by bombarding the Filipino flag that fluttered at Macabalan wharf on March 31, 1900. By time that Cagayan revolutionaries were already massed and prepared to fight against the new colonizers. Led by General Nicolas Capistrano, the town of Cagayan de Misamis fought gallantly in the Philippine-American War and was one of only two such theaters in that war in the entire Mindanao. The Cagayan resistance fighters first fought in the Battle of Cagayan on April 7, 1900 in the center of town. This was followed by the Battle of Agusan Hill that was led by Captain Vicente Roa y Racines who was martyred with his men by the Americans. The US forces only lost to the Cagayan fighters in the Battle of Makahambus Hill under Colonel Apolinar Velez on June 4, 1900 where a great number of American soldiers perished. It was the first victorious battle of the Filipinos in the entire duration of the Philippine-American War in the whole country.

Under the American regime, Cagayan de Misamis became a center of commerce, migration, and education in Northern Mindanao. Several American governors-general visited Cagayan. These were William Howard Taft (later the 27th President of the United States), William Cameron Forbesy, James F. Smith and Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. The town was also graced several times by the visits of Manuel L. Quezon and Sergio Osmeña, Sr. Misamis Oriental became a separate province in 1930 through Legislative Act 3777.

On March 17, 1942, General Douglas MacArthur and his family arrived at Macabalan wharf in Cagayan de Misamis from Corregidor to escape the advancing Japanese forces. MacArthur stayed in Del Monte for four days from where American planes fetched and flew him to Australia, where upon arrival he uttered his now-famous "I Shall Return" promise. A few days later, on March 26, 1942, Quezon and Osmeña arrived in Cagayan to take the same escape route. Quezon spent his last breath on Philippine soil in Northern Mindanao, for he died on August 1, 1944 in New York.

On May 1, 1942, Cagayan de Misamis was invaded by the Japanese Kawamura Detachment that sailed from the port of Iloilo. Using the "scorched earth" policy, the Japanese razed the whole town to the ground and occupied the major buildings for their headquarters. Guerilla activity was rife in the Northern Mindanao countrysides from where a "Free Cagayan Movement" was launched. Cagayan suffered much from World War II until American planes bombarded the town on October 10, 1944 in an effort to drive out the Japanese. Cagayan de Misamis was liberated on May 10, 1945.

Reeling from the ashes of war, Cagayan began its lobby in the Philippine Congress for a city charter beginning in 1946 through the then Congressman of Misamis Pedro Sa Baculio. On December 17, 1949, Misamis Congressman Emmanuel Pelaez introduced in Congress House Bill No. 54 entitled "An Act Creating the City of Cagayan de Oro". President Elpidio Quirino signed the city charter at 11:30 in the morning of June 15, 1950. It was Pelaez who conceived of the idea to append the "de Oro" to its name as a distinctive mark of the new city which had already earned a reputation since the 1500s in the Hispanic era as a place that was abundant in gold due to the placer mining that begun in its hinterland barrios. It was also on that day of its inauguration as a city that it ceased to be known as "Cagayan de Misamis". The first city mayor of Cagayan de Oro was Max Y. Suniel. The position of city mayor was then an appointive office. The first elections for city mayor took place on November 1955. Justiniano R. Borja became the first elected city mayor of Cagayan de Oro. He was first appointed city mayor in 1954 and was repeatedly appointed and elected until he died in office on October 3, 1964. He was known as the "Arsenio Lacson of Cagayan de Oro" and was responsible for the phenomenal economic growth of the city when he opened the Cogon area in 1959.

On June 29, 1951, Pope Pius XII created the first Catholic archbishop in Mindanao when he elevated the Diocese of Cagayan into an archdiocese. The first archbishop was Santiago T. G. Hayes, SJ. Archbishop Hayes founded the Ateneo de Cagayan on June 7, 1933, becoming the first university in the entire Mindanao on March 22, 1958, as Xavier University.

During the regime of the Marcos dictatorship, Cagayan de Oro earned a reputation as a center of political opposition in the Philippines, producing a roster of independent-minded politicians who all helped restore Filipino democracy in EDSA in 1986. Since 1987, Cagayan de Oro became a congressional district in the Congress of the Philippines. The first Congressman of the Lone Congressional District of Cagayan de Oro was Benedicta B. Roa.

Today Cagayan de Oro is a center of booming trade and teeming commerce, a burgeoning education and population center of close to 800,000 people. It is one of the major cities of the Philippines, a city rich in heritage, sharing in the historical highlights of the Republic of the Philippines.

http://www.pbase.com/edso/image/3385647 Why dont you try this? this is the airport plan

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Cagayan de Oro’s strategic location makes it a key transshipment point to major domestic markets, among them Cebu in the central Philippines, and Manila, the country’s capital. Internationally, Cagayan de Oro has direct shipping access to Japan as well as Taiwan through Kaoshiung, and is the reason why some of the world’s largest corporation’s such as Del Monte and Nestle have chosen to operate here.

The city is a key node in the Cagayan de Oro – Iligan Corridor (CIC), an economic zone soon to become Southern Philippines’ leading trade and industrial center. The Corridor is already host to a number of corporate plantations, agro-processing facilities, as well as heavy industries such as cement, steel, and chemical plants.

Is the Mindanao Railway back on track?

The SunStar CdO has the story:

THE $520 million Mindanao Railway System is now gathering grounds as more foreign investors recently intimated their desire to construct this project, said Misamis Oriental Congressman Augusto Baculio, Jr.

Baculio said this include the master plan grant from the government of Germany, the regulating framework for the project and agreement with Austria for a Philippine National Railways Academy.

“We are doing our best to push for the realization of the project despite budget constraints,” the congressman said Saturday.

Already, The Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) reported that Germany and Saudi Arabia have announced its intentions to invest a whooping P18 billon for the construction of the Mindanao Railway.

“Germany will invest 220 million Euros or P15.4 billion while Saudi Arabia will lend $40 million and donate another $10 million or a total of P2.705 billion,” the report reads.

The investment would partly finance the 83-kilometer Cagayan-Cotabato Phase of the project that would link the cities of Iligan, Cagayan de Oro, Gingoog, Marawi and Cotabato by 2008.

The project is expected to benefit 60,000 to 90,000 commuters in the Iligan-Cagayan de Oro “industrial corridor” daily.

Germany-based Siemens would provide 12 trains with speeds of 80 to 150 kilometers per hour.

some comments are here:
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=209281

http://www.pbase.com/edso/image/3385647 Why dont you try this? this is the airport plan

Kush, just place at the start of your link and at the end of your link. And now, the pic will be visible. ;)

advance happy birthday sinjin:)

you're close to 3k posts! wow:)

GASTON PARK - named after the first Mayor of Cagayan de Oro, Segundo Gaston; located near the Saint Augustine Cathedral and Archbishop’s Palace. This park was the center of town when Pueblo de Cagayan was first erected in 1624. This plaza served as the training ground for the local revolutionaries who were preparing for the Phil-American War in 1900.

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Playground

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The Garden

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Birdseye View of Gaston Park

advance happy birthday sinjin:)

Thank You very much! :) And, Advanced Merry Christmas to you! :D

what's tsada?

GOLDEN FRIENDSHIP PARK

Stretches along the city’s commercial districts featuring the national heroes like Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio and Ramon Magsaysay. Inside the Bonifacio monument are the bones of patriot who were perished in the Battle of Agusan on May 14, 1900 against the Americans. A City Bandstand serve as a venue for community affairs while the police outpost (Mayors Action for Squad Assistance – MASA) maintain peace and order condition of the City.

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Pueblo Monument

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Divisoria Park Grand Stage

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President Ramon Magsaysay Monument

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Justiniano Borja Monument

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Jose Rizal Monument


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Divisoria by night

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what's tsada?

My question too....

SAKAY-SAKAY LAMBAGO – a yearly tourism, fiesta activity for the communities along the water fronts to showcase the ability/strength and endurance in boat racing sport. Utilize the panoramic and geographical uniqueness of the Cagayan de Oro river.

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chada/tsada means nice or beautiful :)

Tsada is cdo's term for "maganda" "nice" "wow", it's our original.

http://www.pueblodeoro.com/township_bp.htm

Here's the plan for the Business Park:
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hapi bday sinjin, thanks for the pics.

Pueblo de Oro Business Pars is also an IT center.. Link2Support is on its operation on that area.

that pic of divisoria by night is the old one. it looks better now. it went thru face lift. the park cafe of the previous thread is at plaza divisoria.

Do they speak Spanish in Cagayan de Oro?

I notice a lot of Spanishness in the city, like the monument "El Pueblo a sus Heroes"?
And then the Pueblo de Oro Business Park has streets named "Gran Via" (like the Gran Via in Madrid), "Las Ramblas" (like the "Las Ramblas" of Barcelona), there's Paseo de Oro, Paseo de Roa, etc?

Que coño ciudad eh! :)

hi cyrusal, do you come here regularly?

we speak visayan here in cdo, similar to cebuano... i dont know why there's a lot of spanishes here... arte lang cguro ng mga developer.

no.. but i will be there in Christmas :)

WHITE WATER RAFTING – there really is nothing quite like rafting trip on Cagayan de Oro River. The stretch from Barangay Dansolihon to the city provides you with strikingly beautiful panoramic view of the river rocky walls, untouched vegetation and the sight of the resting haven of monkeys. It has breathtaking rapids that provides the more adventurous with thrills and challenges of rapids intervals not less than 10 – 15 minutes of each other. Cagayan de Oro river has everything that makes for a memorable experience with awesome roar and power of water cascading over rocks and boulders.

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WHITE WATER RAFTING – there really is nothing quite like rafting trip on Cagayan de Oro River. The stretch from Barangay Dansolihon to the city provides you with strikingly beautiful panoramic view of the river rocky walls, untouched vegetation and the sight of the resting haven of monkeys. It has breathtaking rapids that provides the more adventurous with thrills and challenges of rapids intervals not less than 10 – 15 minutes of each other. Cagayan de Oro river has everything that makes for a memorable experience with awesome roar and power of water cascading over rocks and boulders.

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i haven't tried it but our president did:)

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Maharlika-Velez junction

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Opol-CDO boundary

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Main Avenue

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To Marcos Bridge

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This way to CDO

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Monument for Peace

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That way to Iligan City

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Furniture for sale along the sidewalk

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Dunkin Donut of course

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Carmen Bridge

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Infront of CDO City Hall

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Maharlika Highway

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Marcos Bridge

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CDO traffic

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MACAHAMBUS HILL CAVE AND GORGE


Was the site of famous Battle of Macahambus Hill which took place on June 4, 1900, the first Filipino victory against the Americans. The cave itself is a picturesque spot. Today, it’s a short cavern leads to a veranda that overlooks the meandering Cagayan River below. 200 meters away is the Macahambus Gorge. This is actually the steep precipice where the enemy forces fell to their deaths. Today, a flight of over a hundred steps leads one down to the floor of the gorge where there is an underground river that comes out from one cave to another cave. The cave is covered with a lush tropical arbor of forest growth.

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Macahambus Cave

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Macahambus Gorge

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cyrusal, do you know where is that Monument for peace?

MIGTUGSOK FALLS
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MIGTUGSOK FALLS - Migtugsok, a sitio of Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City is a place that could be reached via Barangay Indahag. It is accessible by car via Indahag until kamakawan where one has to walk for 45 minutes in a winding, descending sloping trek of an estimated distance of 400 feet, passing along the converging shallow river of Bigaan and Migtugsok. The river convergence was more or less 20 meters in width. Another 30 minutes trek was made before reaching the falls using the river. The falls is composed of five beautiful cascading waters, where the beauty of nature could be experienced, unexploited by the carelessness of human search for progress and development.

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PELAEZ SPORTS CENTER - along A. Velez St., offers sports facilities, including an Olympic-size swimming pool; site of the first Palarong Pambansa outside Metro Manila in 1975.

IMO, Cagayan de oro City is big....

KAGAY-AN FESTIVAL – Cagayan de Oro’s local answer to mardigras celebrated during the annual feast of the city’s patron saint, Saint Augustine on August 28. Traditionally done in a three (3) hrs. parade of civic-military groups, the event is colored by participation of contingents in bedecked costumes, choreographed movements, lively sounds and gimmickry to bring out the desired theme or social message. Added attractions are the inclusion of huge floats in parade and school drum & bugle corps.

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cyrusal, ur pics on the first page didint appear..

the building at the back of pelaez sports complex is the polymedic general hospital.

the Malbery Suite is almost done. It's a 120-room 5-star hotel at the limketkai center, cdo's cbd.

MALASAG NATURE TRAIL – “Panoramic Scenery “; 10 minutes drive from Cagayan de Oro to Malasag Reforestration Office. One has to negotiate existing asphalted road of about 3 kilometers from the office up to the 300 year Balete Tree landmark near the Mahoganao Reservoir. Along this route, one can already have a panoramic view of the Betania Retreat House; the sitio of Malasag and the City of Cagayan de Oro . This trick can be accomplished in one day.

GARDENS OF MALASAG ECO – TOURISM VILLAGE – situated in Sitio Malasag, Cugman; a rolling terrain in the slopes of reforestration area 20 minutes from the city center. A culturalvillage in a botanical garden setting, it showcases the tribal practices & crafts of Mindanao tribes. The village also serves as the learning center for ecotourism, ethnic arts, flora and fauna endemic to Northern Mindanao while at the same time generate revenues and livelihood for the tribal groups . The village has a souvenir shop of ethnic products; Ethnic Museum; tribal houses of the Talaandigs, Higao-non, Subanon, Maranaos and Ifugaos. It features rows of cozy guest cottages; camp ground , swimming pool , picnic shed, orchidarium, mini garden, native restaurant, butterfly garden, multi purpose hall. It offers the view of Macabalan Bay and hills of Malasag. Available transport : jeepneys, taxis and motocycles (habal-habal)

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Entrance to Malasag Eco-Tourism Village

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Map

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View of Macabalan Bayfrom Malasag Gardens

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Malasag Kabukiran Native Restaurant

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Lumad Souvenir Shop


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Malasag Museum

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Cottages

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Accommodations Amenities: Camping ground, Park, Swimming Pool

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Maya Cottage

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Molave Cottage interior

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Subano House Replica

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Tribe husking rice statuary

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Philippine Deer

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Philippine Eagle
Malasag animal santuary

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Radio Mindanao Network

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Globe Telecom

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Philweb.com

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Capitol Compound Tennis Court

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Misamis Oriental Provincial Capitol

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Goodyear Service Center

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Intelisoft

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National Power Corporation

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Merchants' Bank

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PCI Bank

Cagayan de Oro City's look from SEMINARY HILL

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Tsada is cdo's term for "maganda" "nice" "wow", it's our original.

Oh I see - that's clever - thanx :)

we speak visayan here in cdo, similar to cebuano... i dont know why there's a lot of spanishes here... arte lang cguro ng mga developer.

LOL! Meron sigurong razón about those Spanish streets and wordings. :)

Yeah, I was really confused why there's Spanish words...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think MINDANAO was not colonized by the Spaniards right?

tsada bitaw bai...............how about xavier university? and also lim ket kai

Yeah, I was really confused why there's Spanish words...
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think MINDANAO was not colonized by the Spaniards right?

Remember Zamboaga? Davao was settle around 1850's and I think in the Northern Mindanao that is close to Visayas has been settled by the Spanish. We have family friends from Dipolog who are Spanish descendants. They look caucasian and yet they are very Visayan. :lol:

I found more information about Cagayan de Oro's history: http://cagayan.************/history.html

In 1622, two Augustinian Recollect missionaries first came to Huluga, then called Himologan. Here they met a mixed stock of Bukidnons and Visayas who lived in a settlement perched on a cliff, overlooking a river. The men had massive tattoos, like those of the Visayan pintados, and the women wore intricate jewelry, some made of gold.

The priests were Fray Juan de San Nicolas and Fray Francisco de la Madre de Dios. According to their journals, the natives were polytheistic animists, not Muslims. But they paid tributes to Sultan Kudarat.

Etymology

Spanish documents in 1500s already referred to the area around Himologan as Cagayan. On January 25, 1571, the Spanish government granted this area, including what is now Northern Mindanao, as an encomienda to Juan Griego.

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Check the link its pretty good with some pictures.

the Spanish penetrated into most of Mindanao in the late 19th century.

Zamboanga in the 1700s
Misamis, Caraga, Zamboanga, Cotabato, Davao in the 1800s(with the help of Visayan settlers).

They had a problem getting Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Marawi, (the Muslim territories) and Bukidnon, interior Mindanao (indigenous).

Chavacano (Spanish creole) is still spoken in Zamboanga, Basilan and used to be spoken in Cotabato City and even Davao City.

the Spanish penetrated into most of Mindanao in the late 19th century.

Zamboanga in the 1700s
Misamis, Caraga, Zamboanga, Cotabato, Davao in the 1800s(with the help of Visayan settlers).

They had a problem getting Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Marawi, (the Muslim territories) and Bukidnon, interior Mindanao (indigenous).

Chavacano (Spanish creole) is still spoken in Zamboanga, Basilan and used to be spoken in Cotabato City and even Davao City.

This site is also nice to read about the spanish vs. moros: http://www.bakbakan.com/swishk/swk2-13.html

http://www.bakbakan.com/swishk/skris13.gif

This book is part of a selection of rare Filipiniana books which have long been out of print and are no longer available. Through the admirable efforts of concerned groups such as the Filipiniana Book Guild, the Historical Conservation Society, Cacho Hermanos and the Eugenio Lopez Foundation, more Filipiniana materials have been reprinted and made available to the general public. These rare books, selected by Professor Renato Constantino, form part of the Filipiniana Reprint Series published by Cacho Hermanos.

here it is.. xavier university-ateneo de cagayan http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/xu/seal.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/xu/tourtop.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/xu/1.jpg

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http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/xu/13.jpg

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oh.. so Ateneo has a campus in Cagayan de Oro. or is Xavier University really connected to Loyola Schools et. al?

Why did they name it Xavier U. Why not Ateneo de Cagayan de Oro de Misamis de Occidental. LOL jk i know, it's a mouthful.

[QUOTE=cyrusal]here it is.. xavier university-ateneo de cagayan http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/xu/seal.jpg



http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/xu/1.jpg


This is very beautiful...

i really like xu's campus as much as i adore cagayan de oro city... been there a couple of times.

oh.. so Ateneo has a campus in Cagayan de Oro. or is Xavier University really connected to Loyola Schools et. al?

Why did they name it Xavier U. Why not Ateneo de Cagayan de Oro de Misamis de Occidental. LOL jk i know, it's a mouthful.

Xavier University is one of the branches of Ateneo, it is not an extension of Ateneo de Manila.., other branches are Ateneo de Davao, de Zamboanga,and de Naga (just like UP has Diliman, Los Banos, Cebu etc..)

Why not 'Ateneo de Cagayan' only? i have no concrete answer. But its original name is Ateneo de Cagayan.. rumors say that they changed it to 'Xavier University' because in early years, Jesuits residing in the loyola house in xu campus, said the ateneo de manila will change its name to 'Loyola University', and that xu likewise planned and did change to its current name. however ateneo de manila failed to pursue in changing its name. xu ended up naming 'Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan' to retain the word 'Ateneo' :)

Did they rebuid this church?

http://cagayan.************/History/san_agustin_cathedral.jpg

The Recoletos made Cagayan their mission center in 1674. But only on August 28, 1780 did they declare San Agustin the patron saint of Cagayan.

In 1845, Fray Simon Loscos de Santa Catalina reconstructed the church, using marine stones from China. It had protruding buttresses and a single belfry. Inside were a magnificent altar and sanctuary with carved wooden niches and paintings.

This church was destroyed during the Japanese bombing of Cagayan in 1945, exactly a hundred years later.

http://cagayan.************/History/stained_glass.jpg

Detail of a stained glass window at St. Augustine Cathedral

I spent my first seven years in life in Malaybalalay Bukidnon.
We often travelled from Malaybalay to Cagayan de Oro.
The travel back then was harrowing.
You had to go through the infamous ravine/mountain. I forgot what the name of that mountain was. But, it was famous for a water drop where people stopped for water and the big cross right before you get to Cagayan.

Cagayan de Oro City (Highly urbanized city)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Limketkai_Mall1_small.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Limkitkai_MallXmas2_small.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Road_2_Kitkai1_small.jpg
Median family income: P240,000
Population: 701,859 (est. 2003)
Population Density (persons per square kilometer) 1,038
Urban 1,939
Rural 131
Poblacion 11,979
Non-Poblacion 961
Growth rate: 4.2%
Greater Cagayan population: 803,295 (est. 2003)

Land Area (in hectares/square km.)

Urban…………………….48,885.83 / 488.8583 100%
Rural……………………9,922.90 / 99.2290 20.30%
Poblacion……………342.14/3.4214 0.70%
Non-Poblacion………48,543.69 / 485.4369 99.30%


Boundaries:
North……………….. Macajalar Bay
South……………….. Bukidnon
East………………… Tagoloan, Misamis Oriental
West………………... Opol, Misamis oriental

Cagayan de Oro Malls:

Lim Ket Kai Mall
Lim Ketkai Center(CBD)

Gaisano City,
CM Recto Avenue Cor Corales Ave

SM City,
Masterson ave, Pueblo Business Park

Ororama Mega Center,
Limketkai Center

Robinsons Cagayan,
Limketkai Center

Country Village Hotel
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Country_Village_Hotel_Facade1_.jpg
Maxandrea Hotel
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Maxandrea_Hotel2_small.jpg
River view Inn
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Riverview20nnFacade_small1.jpg
Pryce Plaza Hotel
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Pryce_Plaza_Hotel3_small.jpg

Still have to post some more pics of hotels and malls... Cagay anons, help me.. bye bye, still have a class

@Kush: You shouln't have created a new thread since the other one hasn't reached 500 posts. ;) Maybe a mod can merge the two..Calling Moderators... :D

kush..you can edit your 1st post as an introductory information about cagayan de oro in the first thread you made and delete this one..

i just finished a photo essay for Cagayan de Oro, this is good for introduction..

http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/xu/cagayan_de_oro.jpg
(thanks to sleepwalker_uno, cagayan-de-oro.com, xu.edu.ph, and pbase for the photos)

if you want, edit your frist post in your first thread and insert this picture through this page: http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/xu/cagayan_de_oro.jpg :) good luck

dunno how to delete this ...

threads have been merged:)

this is better.. thanks greyx..

Did they rebuid this church?

http://cagayan.************/History/san_agustin_cathedral.jpg

The Recoletos made Cagayan their mission center in 1674. But only on August 28, 1780 did they declare San Agustin the patron saint of Cagayan.

In 1845, Fray Simon Loscos de Santa Catalina reconstructed the church, using marine stones from China. It had protruding buttresses and a single belfry. Inside were a magnificent altar and sanctuary with carved wooden niches and paintings.

This church was destroyed during the Japanese bombing of Cagayan in 1945, exactly a hundred years later.

http://cagayan.************/History/stained_glass.jpg

Detail of a stained glass window at St. Augustine Cathedral


yep.. they rebuilt the church but i dont know exactly when was it..
here is the st. augustine cathedral now:

http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/cagayan/cathedral_facade.jpg

and the stained glass shipped from somewhere in an abandoned church in UK
http://www.geocities.com/v96rus2001/cagayan/cathedral_sg.jpg

yep.. they rebuilt the church but i dont know exactly when was it..
here is the st. augustine cathedral now:

and the stained glass shipped from somewhere in an abandoned church in UK

Huh? You mean they shipped this stained glass to the UK?

our thread is much better now. thanks Cyrusal for the pics... so nice...

many thanks to the people who contributed pics here, esp Cyrusal and Sinjin..
Cagay-anons, u gotta post some more!

it is from UK. :)

Here's Divisoria pic, i got this from the previous thread.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00101.jpg

Cagayan de Oro City's look from SEMINARY HILL

>>>Scroll---->
http://www.cagayan-de-oro.com/CDO_View_frm_Seminary_Hill1.JPG

http://www.cagayan-de-oro.com/CDO_View_frm_Seminary_Hill2.JPG

http://www.cagayan-de-oro.com/CDO_View_frm_Seminary_Hill5.jpg

http://www.cagayan-de-oro.com/CDO_View_frm_Seminary_Hill6.jpg

if you try to take a pic of this again at the very same angle, it would be much much different... i guess this was taken 3-5 years ago. now, there are more high rise buidings, esp Limketkai(CBD) and along velez ave.

GASTON PARK - named after the first Mayor of Cagayan de Oro, Segundo Gaston; located near the Saint Augustine Cathedral and Archbishop’s Palace. This park was the center of town when Pueblo de Cagayan was first erected in 1624. This plaza served as the training ground for the local revolutionaries who were preparing for the Phil-American War in 1900.

http://www.cagayan-de-oro.com/Gaston_ParkPlayground1_small.JPG
Playground

http://www.cagayan-de-oro.com/GastonPark1_small.JPG

http://www.cagayan-de-oro.com/GastonPark2_small.JPG
The Garden

http://www.cagayan-de-oro.com/Gaston_Park_small.JPG
Birdseye View of Gaston Park

this park has undergone face lift and lightings.... it's very different now...

Here's the plan for the Business Park:
http://www.pueblodeoro.com/images/plan_bizpark.jpg
this is not a plan anymore. this has already been materialized.. thanks for posting this anyway.

Here's Divisoria pic, i got this from the previous thread.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00101.jpg

I took that pic when we dropped by CDO on our way home to Davao from Camiguin. Ok dinha sa Park Cafe.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/cdo/Img00102.jpg

heto, Park Cafe by day:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/cdo/Img00107.jpg

other pic...
Malasag Eco-Tourism Village:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/cdo/Img00110.jpg

para di maligaw...
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/public%20art/camiguin2072.jpg

that is very nice and thanks for those photos sleepwalker_uno.. i hope i could go to CDO and get more pictures of Night Cafe:)

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/public%20art/camiguin2072.jpg

Oh, it's actually a town in the Philippines?


Wao, Philippines!

Oh, it's actually a town in the Philippines?


Wao, Philippines!

ye, in Lanao del Sur.

Oh, it's actually a town in the Philippines?


Wao, Philippines!
wao is a small municipality of Bukidnon :)

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/CDO_Airport2_small.jpg
Cagayan de Oro Airport
(The International Airport is now u/c)

hi kush,
do you have any renderings or photos of the construction site please ??

the actual construction has not yet pushed through because of some issues:

please read

Solon urges completion of airport by '06
By Lizanilla J. Amarga

THE construction of the almost 10-year delayed $107 million Laguindingan International Airport should be completed before the end of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's term in 2010.

This plea was aired by Misamis Oriental Second Dist. Rep. Danilo Lagbas to his colleagues during his privilege speech in Congress last Monday.

He recounted to his colleagues how back in 1996 the National Economic Development Authority (Neda) deferred consideration of the airport project.

"This means in the project planning lingo as a project that is already dismissed," he said, adding that the dropping was made upon the recommendation issued by the Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC).

During the Senate committee budget hearing that same year, Lagbas said then Senator Gloria Macagapal-Arroyo managed to persuade Neda to put back the project in the National Investment Priority Plan.

He said much have been done for the project including how funds were secured such as a loan from the Korean Economic Development Cooperation Fund (EDCF).

"But still nothing happened," he said.

Lagbas said the EDCF initial loan is to be augmented by ongoing negotiations with the same EDCF, Korean EXIMBANK, and the Nordik Bank.

Troubled

He said the government has already disbursed a substantial amount from the loan proceeds that included P66 million to Yooshen Engineering for consultancy services and the DOTC has disbursed P220 million from its regular budget allocation from 1996 to 2003.

"Yet up to this day, we are left in the dark as to the exact status of the Laguindingan Airport Project. There was a sudden suspension of the implementation of the project," he said.

Before the May 2004 Elections, Arroyo has so promised Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro that she would undertake the full construction of the Laguindingan International Airport in Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental.

But when she lost heavily in the May 2004 elections here in Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro, the project has suddenly been forgotten.

Mayor Vicente Emano said the funds for the project were diverted to fund the Iloilo International Airport in Iloilo City where Arroyo won in the Presidential Race.

This time, Lagbas told his colleagues that he was troubled by how the Laguindingan International Airport was "dropped" from the National Government's list of priority projects.

He said the DOTC secretary has informed him that Laguindingan Airport Project is no longer a priority project of the government during the Committee on Appropriations Budget Hearing for the 2005 Budget.

"NEDA dropped Laguindingan airport project from the List of Priority Projects," he said.

Buck-passing

Lagbas said he was also informed that the responsibility in implementing Laguindingan project has been transferred to the PIC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Development Corporation.

"There is an apparent buck passing among agencies tasked to implement this project," he said.

Nevertheless, he said he does not question the wisdom of this move as this is "the sole prerogative of the Executive Department."

"We are only askig PIC, to treat Laguindingan Airport Project, with the same degree of importance as South Luzon Expressway (SLEX), North Luzon Expressway and other infrastructure projects that they have identified. We are just asking PIC to speed-up its implementation," he said. "We are asking PIC to accomplish this project during the GMA administration."

Lagbas has requested that the congressional committee on transportation and communication should look into the offer made by China Shenyang International Economic Corporation.

He said their loan offers does not require any counterpart but only a sovereign guarantee.

Already, at least P286 million has been spent on the project. The government has so far admitted that it could not as yet start the actual construction of this project as it has difficulties of raising the $35 million or some P1.950 billion loan counterpart.


(June 15, 2005 issue)

Arroyo admits paying off '04 political debts
By Lizanilla J. Amarga

PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has personally confessed to the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro that she is indeed somehow paying back her political debts to the areas where she won in the 2004 presidential elections by giving them "extra projects."

Arroyo had debunked reports that the construction of the $107-million Laguindingan International Airport was neither scrapped nor were its funds diverted to the Iloilo International Airport where she won by a huge margin.

Misamis Oriental congressmen Danilo Lagbas of the First District and Augusto Baculio Jr. of the Second District are asking the congressional committee on transportation and communications to check into the project's delay and to find ways to fast track its construction.

Meanwhile, Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro Vicar General Monsignor Rey Monsanto and media representative Monsignor Elmer Abacahin told reporters that Arroyo has personally told them that the Laguindingan International Project is still on.

"She clarified nga naa paman ang Laguindingan International Airport ug wala man gi-divert ang funds para didto sa Iloilo...kaso lang wala pay kwarta para sa Laguindingan (Arroyo clarified that the Laguindingan International Airport is still in the pipeline and that its funds were not diverted for the Ioilo Airport...the problem is just that there is still no hard cash for the Laguindingan International Airport)," Monsanto said.

He added that the president even disclosed that the Iloilo International Airport does not even have any funds yet.

In a radio interview earlier, Cagayan de Oro City Mayor Vicente Emano said the funds for the Laguindingan International Airport construction at Laguindingan, Misamis Oriental were diverted to finance the Iloilo Airport project in Iloilo City.

He said this as Arroyo allegedly was displeased over how she lost by a huge margin against top opposition presidential bet Fernando Poe Jr. in Misamis Oriental and Cagayan de Oro City.

In the course of their discussion on the Laguindingan project, Monsanto recounted how Arroyo admitted that she is giving "extra projects" to areas where she won in the elections 2004.

"Iyang gi-ingon sa amoa nga kadtong diin siya napilde wala man niya gikuha ang iyang mga projects unya didto sa dapit diin siya midaug naa lang siya'y pasobra nga mga projects (Arroyo told us that in those areas where she lost she did not scrap her projects in these areas and that all her projects in these areas are still on the table and in those areas where she won in the elections she gave them extra projects)," he said.

Baculio and Lagbas separately disclosed that they are now urging the congressional committee on transportation and communication to look into this 10-year delayed project and the possibility of completing this project within the Arroyo administration period.


(June 21, 2005 issue)

hi kush,
do you have any renderings or photos of the construction site please ??

http://www.pbase.com/edso/image/3385647 Why dont you try this? this is the airport plan... I dont have the actual pic coz i haven't visited the area yet.. but the groundbreaking has already started and they(GOVT) have already spent some P280M for groundbreaking alone... The cost of the project is estimated to be P6.5-7B..

SANN BANDA IPAPATAYO UNG AIRPORT? BALITA KO IT IS OUTSIDE CDO CITY? GAANO KALAKI ANG LIMKETKAI CENTER? MASMALAKI BA UN KAYSA SM CDO? OR SM CDO IS THE SMALLEST MALL IN CDO?

ano po ang lahi nung Lim Ket Kai? ang hirap atang bigkasin ng name nya. hehe

Intsik yang si Lim Ket Kai. I think its the biggest mall in Mindanao.

Intsik yang si Lim Ket Kai. I think its the biggest mall in Mindanao.

WHAT IS THE GROSS FLOOR AREA OF THE LARGEST MALL IN MINDANAO?

WHAT IS THE GROSS FLOOR AREA OF THE LARGEST MALL IN MINDANAO?

i dunno how big is it exactly but if u'v been to ayala cebu, definitely mas malaki ang base ng Lim ketkai. it's just ayala cebu has 4 levels kaya mas malaki xa.. and yes, limketkai is believed to be the largest mall in mindanao and 2nd only if not the largest in visayas.

WHAT IS THE GROSS FLOOR AREA OF THE LARGEST MALL IN MINDANAO?

i dunno how big is it exactly but if u'v been to ayala cebu, definitely mas malaki ang base ng Lim ketkai. it's just ayala cebu has 4 levels kaya mas malaki xa.. and yes, limketkai is believed to be the largest mall in mindanao and 2nd only if not the largest in visayas-mindanao.

SANN BANDA IPAPATAYO UNG AIRPORT? BALITA KO IT IS OUTSIDE CDO CITY? GAANO KALAKI ANG LIMKETKAI CENTER? MASMALAKI BA UN KAYSA SM CDO? OR SM CDO IS THE SMALLEST MALL IN CDO?

yes it's outside the CDO City somewhere 20-30 km from CDO proper.

Limketkai center is actually not a mall alone but a mixed-use center with hotels, restos, malls, banks, ect... and the limketkai mall is within the limketkai center..the robinsons cdo is also at the same center...
Definitly mas malaki ang limketkai kesa sa sm cdo... i guess it's 4x the size of sm cdo.... halos same size with ayala cebu.

yes, i guess sm is the 2nd smallest mall in cdo.. mas malaki kc ang gaisano city... ororama ang pinakamaliit.. though, halos same size with sm cdo rin..

yung buong limketkai center(central business district) is i guess 39 hectars.. mas malaki kesa sa ARANETA center cubao w/c is only 33hectars i guess. correct me if im wrong.

Mall interior.. sa loob ng limketkai mall
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00092.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00093.jpg
Around the Limketkai center.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/lkks1.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00098.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00095.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Road_2_Kitkai1_small.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Road_2_Kitkai1_small.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Limkitkai_MallXmas2_small.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Limkitkai_Mall_Clean1_small.jpg

Talagang Lim Ket Kai ang name ng mall ah. Wala ba syang nickname?
LKK Mall? LKK Chada Mall? How did it manage to stay long in the business with that name? hehehe JK

Talagang Lim Ket Kai ang name ng mall ah. Wala ba syang nickname?
LKK Mall? LKK Chada Mall? How did it manage to stay long in the business with that name? hehehe JK

Limketkai mall talaga ung name..pero we usually call it ketkai.. yung center namam limletkai center tlga.. 1991 pa when they started the business.. sila bale yung pioneering in mall industry sa cdo.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/camiguin3007.jpg

sleepwalker, saan to? was this taken from mangima bukidnon or sa may davao na banda? i like this... parang mini Kenon road..hehehe

that's a good thing for CDO for it's largest mall to be locally owned... rather than letting it be SM all the way, I mean SM is too boxy sorry Mr. Sy but it's true.... if you've been to one SM you've been to all.

^ haha that is so right, but the new sm's actually look better! ketkai is actually my favourite mall there in CDO, my aunt always takes us there when we visit. Also, it was there in CDO where i first saw a skybridge, hehe, katong sa GAISANO. haay, those memories.

^ haha that is so right, but the new sm's actually look better! ketkai is actually my favourite mall there in CDO, my aunt always takes us there when we visit. Also, it was there in CDO where i first saw a skybridge, hehe, katong sa GAISANO. haay, those memories.

ah, yeah... that sky bridge you're saying was converted into a department store extension...

that's a good thing for CDO for it's largest mall to be locally owned... rather than letting it be SM all the way, I mean SM is too boxy sorry Mr. Sy but it's true.... if you've been to one SM you've been to all.

yeah your right! sm cdo, sm davao, and sm pampanga look very same.. infact they just differ in size... pampanga being the largest followed by davao and then cdo... they're getting so boring.... but i really like sm baguio.. it's interior is like alabang town center.

Is the casino located at Limketkai too??

Australian business deligates have recently visited the city for the ocular inspection of the probable sites to develop... they're keen on developing many parts of cdo esp the costal area into business center. the mountains of cdo will also be develop into malls, hotels, ect... im looking forward to the materialization of these things... cdo is really a city in blosom, bloom and boom as many investors prioritize cdo more than that of iloilo, bacolod, and davao... this is probably because of the peace and order situation in the city and high median family income...

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/cagayan_de_oro222.jpg

as you can see, the river has no slums, unlike that of pasig, davao, and iloilo rivers... no offensement to the people of these places...

Is the casino located at Limketkai too??

is there a casino at cdo? all i know is there have been 3 attempts of pagcor to put up at kauswagan,cdo, but the conservatives here opposed all the way... i hope there would be like bacolod... it's going to be another contribution to cdo's best performing economy

wow. tsadaha sa Limketkai bai. the last time i was there on-going pa ang renovation.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/cagayan_de_oro222.jpg

as you can see, the river has no slums, unlike that of pasig, davao, and iloilo rivers... no offense meant to the people of these places...
That's great.
Davao does have too many badjao's.

yeah your right! sm cdo, sm davao, and sm pampanga look very same.. infact they just differ in size... pampanga being the largest followed by davao and then cdo... they're getting so boring.... but i really like sm baguio.. it's interior is like alabang town center.

sm pampanga, davao, CDO, batangas, are almost the same. me annex lang ang sm pampanga kaya malaki at malawak. as in maliit lng ang sm cagayan de oro? ilan lang ang cashiers ng sm supermarket sa CDO? I THINK LIMKETKAI HAS THE BIGGEST SUPERMARKET AFTER ALL.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/camiguin3007.jpg

sleepwalker, saan to? was this taken from mangima bukidnon or sa may davao na banda? i like this... parang mini Kenon road..hehehe

malapit sa bukidnon-davao boundary. i forgot the name.

http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/cagayan_de_oro222.jpg

as you can see, the river has no slums, unlike that of pasig, davao, and iloilo rivers... no offensement to the people of these places...

its ok. its a fact. thanks for using my pics. galeng mo palang gumawa ng poster. keep it up.


That's great.
Davao does have too many badjao's.

not only badjaos, but also bisaya, muslims & lumads na mga squatters. good for cdo, they were able to control illegal settlements along its river.

malapit sa bukidnon-davao boundary. i forgot the name.

yups, that's the mangima mines. i remember taking the route to cagayan when we had those lectures (for my previous employer). somewhere they sell those stone plates (called mangima) which you can fashion out to so many things - table tops, tiles etc.

Cagayanons, please post your pictures in the Photo album thread for the SSC Phil photo collage. :)

wow. tsadaha sa Limketkai bai. the last time i was there on-going pa ang renovation.

im not mall fanatic but i like ketkai & rosario strip. i like cdo. the only thing i hate, like every city in our country is the overhead powerlines.

Mall interior.. sa loob ng limketkai mall
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00092.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00093.jpg
Around the Limketkai center.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/lkks1.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00098.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Img00095.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Road_2_Kitkai1_small.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Road_2_Kitkai1_small.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Limkitkai_MallXmas2_small.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Limkitkai_Mall_Clean1_small.jpg

About LimKetKai, it's bigger than SM CDO. Is it more crowded also?

2005.05.28 the day i visited CDO.

About LimKetKai, it's bigger than SM CDO. Is it more crowded also?

sometimes people prefer going to Limketkai than SM CDO because it is generally more accesible and has a wider variety of shops so most of the times it is more crowded.

^^ even bigger than any davao mall, i think... could be tha biggest in mindanao. i dont have any data but thats how i see it.

sometimes people prefer going to Limketkai than SM CDO because it is generally more accesible and has a wider variety of shops so most of the times it is more crowded.

that means malapit sa central business district ng cagayan de oro ung limketkai and the sm cdo is far from its CBD?

KaTsada sad aning CDO ba! ;) Mura man sa'g Sugbu gikan sa ibabaw.

that means malapit sa central business district ng cagayan de oro ung limketkai and the sm cdo is far from its CBD?

yup.. that is true. SM CDO is built in uptown cdo... yea its a bit far from the city's CBD, but they put a business/IT park around the mall's vicinity catering a number of people in that region.

SM cdo is smaller than SM batangas in base.. but cdo has 3 levels and batangas only has 2 levels.. the supermarket, i guess SM cdo's supermarket and dept store is bigger than those of SM batangas. SM cdo is expanding right now... more space and a multi level carpark is included..

Limketkai Centercenter is also building their 2 level basemant parking in front of Robinsons... i dunno if it's 2 or 3 level... not so sure.. i heared it's 2 only...

its ok. its a fact. thanks for using my pics. galeng mo palang gumawa ng poster. keep it up.



not only badjaos, but also bisaya, muslims & lumads na mga squatters. good for cdo, they were able to control illegal settlements along its river.


i think cyrusal should be given credit on this coz he/she was the one who made the photo essay...

its HE lolz :)

i think cyrusal should be given credit on this coz he/she was the one who made the photo essay...

kaya nga, im thankful to him for making a beautiful banner for CDO.

btw, i think ketkai is the first in mindanao to have underpass.

SM cdo is smaller than SM batangas in base.. but cdo has 3 levels and batangas only has 2 levels.. the supermarket, i guess SM cdo's supermarket and dept store is bigger than those of SM batangas. SM cdo is expanding right now... more space and a multi level carpark is included..

Limketkai Center is also building their 2 level basemant parking in front of Robinsons... i dunno if it's 2 or 3 level... not so sure.. i heared it's 2 only...

did u already went to sm batangas?

did u already went to sm batangas?

yup... we were there last summer..on our way to Mindoro...
it's the one beside the DAYS HOTEL ryt? The mall is pretty big but it only has 2 levels and very few parking spaces to think it has a very huge surrounding..

does SM own that space around sm batangas? it has lots of potentials... maybe Henry Sy should consider building a hotel there as their answer to the neighbor DAYS.. it would surely be a boom for batangas.. i love that place.. it's pretty clean...

its HE lolz :)

aws... sorry kaayo bai... wa man gud ko kabalo how to address you.. lol

kaya nga, im thankful to him for making a beautiful banner for CDO.

btw, i think ketkai is the first in mindanao to have underpass.

yes i guess so.. i can't speak for Zambo...haven't been there... but i guess it's the only underpass in Mindanao.. and very soon, it will have the very first multi-level basement carpark in Mindanao if not Visayas-Mindanao..
it's a 2 level basement carpark in front of Robinsons Cagayan de Oro..

wow. tsadaha sa Limketkai bai. the last time i was there on-going pa ang renovation.

u should visit it now.. it's totally different...

anyone who has an areal photo of cdo, post please...

yes i guess so.. i can't speak for Zambo...haven't been there... but i guess it's the only underpass in Mindanao.. and very soon, it will have the very first multi-level basement carpark in Mindanao if not Visayas-Mindanao..
it's a 2 level basement carpark in front of Robinsons Cagayan de Oro..

2nd underpass in mindanao is in davao.

2nd underpass in mindanao is in davao.

ah so there is one in DC? aok.. haven't seen it...

ah so there is one in DC? aok.. haven't seen it...

post # 414
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=247044&page=21&pp=20

btw, heres some CDO pics:

park cafe
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/cdo/Img00101.jpg

xavier university
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/cdo/Img00106.jpg

inside p joe's diner
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/cdo/Img00097.jpg

this ones in bukidnon
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y229/sleepie_uno/cdo/110705P1010037.jpg

ahhh... so it's a real underpass.. i mean for the traffic... wow... in limketkai it's just for the bridge linking robinsons and limketkai mall...

CDO is fast catching up Davao

CDO is fast catching up Davao

not really... davao is cebu is manila.... yes CDO is very progressive, in fact 3rd most progressive city in the country, and the most progressive in Mindanao...(fast growing)

the peace and order situation here is our advantage... that's why we got a Robinsons here.. the only in Minda... Robinsons is infact planning a second mall in cdo... but still in Lim ketkai center...

Goldilocks Food shop, Limketkai Center(First in Minda)

KennyRogers, Limketkai Center(Davao and Cebu braches months after CDO's)

IT Park (but Davao has ICT)

Robinsons, Limketkai Center(First in Minda)

not really... davao is cebu is manila.... yes CDO is very progressive, in fact 3rd most progressive city in the country, and the most progressive in Mindanao...(fast growing)

the peace and order situation here is our advantage... that's why we got a Robinsons here.. the only in Minda... Robinsons is infact planning a second mall in cdo... but still in Lim ketkai center...

I was born in CDO though I grew up and currently live here in Cebu, but I still consider CDO my second home!

I guess CDO is really the most progressive city in Mindanao.. I was so impressed with its Port.. (is it an international port na ba?) So clean and so big with all those containers... It's also so peaceful and it has a very different aura... It's as if you are not in Mindanao... Basta naa jud siya aura nga lahi kaayo...

I think if CDO grows, the Metro CDO area would include portions na of Iligan and I think this is the site of its proposed international airport i guess?

And guess what, I remember talking with one of the councilors there in CDO during our Junior Jaycees convention 3 years ago and he said that Ayala is planning to put up an AYALA CENTER MALL in CDO...

:)

not really... davao is cebu is manila.... yes CDO is very progressive, in fact 3rd most progressive city in the country, and the most progressive in Mindanao...(fast growing)

the peace and order situation here is our advantage... that's why we got a Robinsons here.. the only in Minda... Robinsons is infact planning a second mall in cdo... but still in Lim ketkai center...
really :eek2: Ost :)

not really... davao is cebu is manila.... yes CDO is very progressive, in fact 3rd most progressive city in the country, and the most progressive in Mindanao...(fast growing)

the peace and order situation here is our advantage... that's why we got a Robinsons here.. the only in Minda... Robinsons is infact planning a second mall in cdo... but still in Lim ketkai center...

It's between CDO and IloIlo... which is the most progressive... before, CDO for me is the 4th most progressive city after Davao in the country until I found out here in SSC that IloIlo is more vibrant and has more economic activities coz of the infos crtsy of @wecky and @chymera so for me IloIlo is the 4th but I haven't still seen the economic lay outs of the city and its progress so I still dunno...

CDO is one big but silent city with over 700k population at a higher median income.For me CDO is the 3rd most progressive city outside Manila, though in terms of popularity, Iloilo is more famous.

Currently, our president admitted that she is paying off her price to provinces which she won during the elections by pursuing more projects on those areas.. in this regard, she lost in CDO and won in Iloilo

after googling about the city. here is a brief review of socio-economic life in CDO



KNOWN AS THE CITY OF GOLDEN FRIENDSHIP, Cagayan de Oro has been cited by two Philippine leading think tanks for the vast potentials it holds for investors and businessmen who manage to see beyond the fabled warmth and hospitality of its residents.

Roberto de Vera, author and regional studies director of the University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P),cited Cagayan de Oro as the best positioned for future growth and investments among 23 leading urban regional cities of the Philippines.

Investment Center

In his 2000 paper "Investing in Regional Cities: the Next Big Thing," de Vera describes how Cagayan de Oro is not only the gateway to Northern Mindanao region, but is its regional shopping center as well.

Although it ranked only 16th among the 23 cities in the study in Gross City Domestic Product (GCDP) with P4.93 billion, it led all others in investments with P16.5 billion. It was also the only city in Mindanao among the top five cited by the study in investments posted with the Board of Investments (BOI) in 1999.

Focused Vision
Cagayan de Oro was also cited in a 2000 study by the Washington Sycip Policy Forum -- a think tank of the Asian Institute of Management -- because of its "focused vision for its economic future."

The study said Cagayan de Oro's competitiveness was enhanced by its strong economic ties such as with the Northern and Central Visayas regions, Cagayan de Oro-Iligan Corridor (CIC), and the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA).

Although other regional centers like Davao were also progressive, its average household income from 1994 to 1997 dropped 10%, while those of Cagayan de Oro and General Santos increased.


Infrastructure Support

Another unique feature of Cagayan de Oro is the way by which its strong real estate property development is balanced by inter-regional infrastructure development such as the Laguindingan international standard airport, Mindanao International Container Port, Tubod-Tangub bridge and widening of its Iligan-Cagayan de Oro-Bukidnon Road (ICBR), the road artery which links it to key satellite areas.

^^ nice article! per capita, CDO could easily surpass Davao.

CDO is one big but silent city with over 700k population at a higher median income.For me CDO is the 3rd most progressive city outside Manila, though in terms of popularity, Iloilo is more famous.

Currently, our president admitted that she is paying off her price to provinces which she won during the elections by pursuing more projects on those areas.. in this regard, she lost in CDO and won in Iloilo

yup, CDO is the most underrated of all... sabi ko na nga be ah, CDO is a sleeping active volcano..hehe. hilom hilom lng pero watch out:okay:

Wow, woudn't it be nice to invest in CDO? The last time I was there was Dec 2004 and first thing I did was visit my alma mater XU. What's the best business to set up or I wonder if you guys know how much a farm lot per hectare costs now near CDO surrounds or Bukidnon?

anyone who has an areal photo of cdo, post please...

here it is :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/50728389.jpg

another one

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/cagayan.jpg

here it is :)

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/50728389.jpg
Yeah I agree that the riverbanks should be reserved for parks like in Kuching, Malaysia and as I see can in the aerial it's still quite possible since there are still greens bounding the river!CDO does look like Manila in that shot with that island looking like Isla Convalencia(?).

nice shots cyrusal! CDO looks very densed na! aliw din ako with CDO City Mayor. English with "american accent" when interviewed on TV regarding Garcillano sumthing. he must be very smart :) wasnt able to get his name though.

i just found those pictures in pbase..ahehehehe. its a copyright of Jim Bonner as indicated in the lower right portion of the pic.:)

CDO current mayor is Vicente Emano.. he is famous for his unique, deep and fluent english.

Oh, I wanna hear him speak...:)

nice aerial views of CDO

^^ looks clean & green.

beautiful macajalar and river.

CDO current mayor is Vicente Emano.. he is famous for his unique, deep and fluent english.

cool! naaaliw tlaga me when i saw him on tv being interviewed hehe.. nice to know he's famous for that :D

when i was a lil kid we went to CDO. all i can remember are these:
CDO Airport is somewhere on top of a mountain, then land trip kami goin' to Iligan. before that pala, we dropped by a mall. i don't know if it was SM or sumthin. We visited Ma. Christina Falls and Tinago Falls which my relatives owned a resto there. and then a swimming pool resort somewhere. basta, so many swimming pools!! i can't remember the resort's name. after a few days we went to Camiguin island. it was one of my best summer vacation ever! but can hardly recall. :(

I'm sure it @Rusty isn't SM coz SM wasn't built yet during your younger days:D

or bka Gaisano Mall? twas way back 1995 :)

Oh Cagayan my second home.. I really like it coz it's clean and green. It also has a very beautiful backdrop not to mention the bay, etc..etc.. I hope they can come up with a waterfront development project in order to make this city the greatest in Mindanao.. :)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/arnoldsa/cagayan.jpg

If Cagayan will be further developed, it will definitely look like Singapore.. :)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/arnoldsa/singapura.jpg

How about that small island what is their long term plan for it?

^^ hospicio. jk

somehw i knew you would say that

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y215/jafhoy/Cagayandeoro.jpg

or bka Gaisano Mall? twas way back 1995 :)

Or maybe LimKetKai Mall

Oh Cagayan my second home.. I really like it coz it's clean and green. It also has a very beautiful backdrop not to mention the bay, etc..etc.. I hope they can come up with a waterfront development project in order to make this city the greatest in Mindanao.. :)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/arnoldsa/cagayan.jpg

If Cagayan will be further developed, it will definitely look like Singapore.. :)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/arnoldsa/singapura.jpg

sana mag dilang anghel ka arnoldsa!

I thought it's "sana mag bilang anghel"...

what's dilang anghel? :)

I think it's "hope it will come true"

Oh Cagayan my second home.. I really like it coz it's clean and green. It also has a very beautiful backdrop not to mention the bay, etc..etc.. I hope they can come up with a waterfront development project in order to make this city the greatest in Mindanao.. :)

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/arnoldsa/cagayan.jpg

If Cagayan will be further developed, it will definitely look like Singapore.. :)
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/arnoldsa/singapura.jpg

wow.. this is possible in a hundred years:)

^^ of all cities that had rivers in it, cagayan is the most scenic, years back, i saw someone fishing. i dunno now, but if somebody still is, you guys can congratulate yourselves for taking good care of the river.

those small islands in the river are eyecatchers in that areal view!!^^

Wow, woudn't it be nice to invest in CDO? The last time I was there was Dec 2004 and first thing I did was visit my alma mater XU. What's the best business to set up or I wonder if you guys know how much a farm lot per hectare costs now near CDO surrounds or Bukidnon?


maybe this little information would be a help (in a way) :)


Thursday, December 08, 2005

More businesses in Oro established this year

MORE than 800 new business establishments have registered this year, records from the City Finance Department revealed.

City Treasurer Lino D. Daral disclosed that as of the latest record of his office, a total of 15,264 business establishments have registered this year compared to the 14,367 businesses registered in 2004.

Daral said that this year's figure of 897 new business establishments might still increase pending business applications in the fourth quarter of the year.

Among the business categories that showed significant increase in number this year are the banking and finance sector, cargo handling, manufacturing, wholesale, accommodation for tourists and transient visitors, restaurants and related food establishments, travel agency, internet cafe, and variety stores.

A computer-generated report of business registration in the city provided by the City Finance Department showed a total of 512 banking and other financial facilities registered this year compared to some 487 establishments registered last year.

Hotel occupancy and related service also increased from 95 establishments last year to 109 this year; restaurants and food establishments from 1,135 last year to 1,329 this year; internet cafes from 175 last year to 260 this year; travel agency from 26 last year to 32 this year; cargo from 138 last year to 144 this year; manufacturing from 105 last year to 113 this year; wholesale from 31 last year to 40 this year, travel from 26 last year to 32 this year; and variety stores from 2,777 last year to 2,948 this year.

City Mayor Vicente Y. Emano attributed the high level of confidence placed by the business sector in the city, to the stable peace and order condition, local tax incentives, and investor-friendly business registration process. (CIO)

i went to Limketkai lately... i don't usually go there for it's some 15-20 km from uptown cdo(Pueblo de Oro) where i live.. SM is more accessible for me..

Limketkai Mall's Atrium with a huge fountain behind the glass wall.. More or less, this atrium is 5 or 6 times bigger than SM's.. it could accomodate more than 10000 person at a time..
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Image083.jpg


This one is at Limketkai Mall's Rutonda.. Pretty busy inspite having taken on school days/hours..
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/Image084.jpg

the quality of the pic is poor.... i only used phone cam for this

i'll try to post pic of high ridge soon.

It's between CDO and IloIlo... which is the most progressive... before, CDO for me is the 4th most progressive city after Davao in the country until I found out here in SSC that IloIlo is more vibrant and has more economic activities coz of the infos crtsy of @wecky and @chymera so for me IloIlo is the 4th but I haven't still seen the economic lay outs of the city and its progress so I still dunno...

i guess Iloilo And Cagayan de Oro are neck-neck in terms of Economy..
In fact, CDO's economy is the Fastest Growing local economy in 2005.

It maybe due to the industries comming in the city, SUCH AS:
TANDUAY PLANT, GLASS FACTORY, DELMONTE PROCESSING, NATIONAL STEEL CORP (branch of ILIGAN'S NSC), NEW OIL REFINERIES, NESTLE WASTE MGT(the only in VIS-MIN of NESTLE), GOOD SAMARITAN FOOD PROCESSING PLANT, LIM KET KAI MFG PLANT, ect..

CDO is definitely more INDUSTRIALIZED than ILOILO as manifested by the declaration of ILIGAN-CDO corridor as PHILIPPINES' INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR.

The Largest International Container Terminal in VIS-MIN is also located in CDO. Larger than the one in CEBU.

ILIGAN-CDO corridor has also the largest ridership in VIS-MIN making it a priority for the proposed Mindanao Railway System(MRS).
An 80 km railway(First phase) which will run from ILIGAN through CDO and BUTUAN..

It's just ILOILO has more foreign and local tourist due to its internationally known DINAGYANG FESTIVAL. It's their advantage...
But Iloilo city, in my observation, is just too small. Very little room for Dev't.

Unlike CDO, the uptown(PUEBLO) is fast growing. Soon it'll be the New City.
The Western Bay area, where the 2nd property of AYALA is located, is due for RECLAMATION and DEVELOPMENT.. i heard that CASINO FILIPINO will finaly rise there, after many oppositions for the past 10 years.
The other uptown(INDAHAG MTS), where the ayala is putting up a mall is due to be the next PUEBLO DE ORO..

It's a very nice thing that cdo's mountains are being transformned into urban areas. Infact the highest peak of CDO (just by the city proper adjacent to Pueblo and Indahag) was developed into a park named HIGH RIDGE. CDO's answer to CEBU's "TOPS" and DAVAO's "something i dunno"..

To sum it all, Iloilo has it's own advantage as much as CDO has. Iloilo has the visitors, CDO has the Industries..
For me,ILOILO CDO, CDO ILOILO (whatever the billing) are the 4th cities after MERTO MANILA, METRO CEBU, and DAVAO.

here is my version limketkai mall pics when i had my vacation in CDO this Christmas.. aheheh.. sorry for the quality.. it is also from my camera phone :)



http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai2.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai1.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai4.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai3.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai10.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai9.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai7.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai5.jpg

:)

another one from outside:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai8.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/limketkai6.jpg

Thanks for the pics kush and cyrusal. They all look fine to me. It's just nice to see a glimpse of CDO city life. Can't wait to see more. :cheers:

You got nice shots Cyrusal.. Thanks for sharing the pics..
You could have visited high ridge.. so nice..

You got nice shots Cyrusal.. Thanks for sharing the pics..
You could have visited high ridge.. so nice..

Ya, i've seen it from afar.. i looks like taal vista, does it?
do you have any pictures?

Ya, i've seen it from afar.. i looks like taal vista, does it?
do you have any pictures?

yeah, you're right... sad to say i have not taken any pics of it. next time i climb up there.. lol.. there's a tower up there resembling Seatles's Space needle.. looks like mini space needle.. can be seen from downtown.

laki na pinagbago ng cdo
isang beses pa lang ako nakapunta dyan

is limketkai bigger than sm?

is limketkai bigger than sm?

definitely!

buhay pa ba ororama?
yun lang matandaan kong
napuntahan
ko

buhay pa ba ororama?
yun lang matandaan kong
napuntahan
ko

they're still operating 3 supercenters.. i hope they make a real mall soon.

is limketkai bigger than sm?

yup!
i've been to all the major malls in mindanao and i believe that it's the largest among them (based on my observation, i dont have any figures though)
plus it is connected to Robinsons' BigR and Rosario Arcade

Limketkai complex is like CDO version of Araneta Cubao shopping center

yup!
i've been to all the major malls in mindanao and i believe that it's the largest among them (based on my observation, i dont have any figures though)
plus it is connected to Robinsons' BigR and Rosario Arcade

Limketkai complex is like CDO version of Araneta Cubao shopping center

or better yet, Ayala Center Makati.. because like ayala, Lim ketkai center has now a hotel(counter part of intercon, shangri-la, dusit, oakwood..lol).. LimketkaiMall being glorietta right? Like glorietta, LKKMall has also 4 wings..and a rutonda at the common end of 4 wings.. i really hope, sooner or later the rest of the center will be develop..i really anticipate RUSTAN's branch at Limketkai.. because i heard.. and Robisons will also be having expansion daw... y not...

so naay plano lugar ang rustan's nga magtukod ug department store sa cdo?

so naay plano lugar ang rustan's nga magtukod ug department store sa cdo?

i heard from the business folks.. and it's gonna be located at LKK center daw.. adjacent to the LKK mall... pretty cool..

wow i hope it's gonna be tsada kaayo :)

i have friends living there right now (mostly, ex-editors of Xavier University's paper)...and an ex-girlfriend too... hehe...

ahh. ok..

taken from Dynasty court hotel.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/dynasty.jpg

where is this? highway to iligan? looks unfamiliar...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/hehehe.jpg

taken from 1 of cdo's high ridges...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/58158179TCQzmn_ph.jpg
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/cdotop.jpg

Maxandrea hotel's glassy building.. the dominating building in this pic... plus Xavier Univ Ateneo de Cagayan.. the one with school seal..
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/maxandrea.jpg

imperial plaza, Polymedic general hospital, and VIP hotel respectively..
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/velez.jpg

CDO's domestic airport..
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/cdoairport.jpg

another inside LKKMall...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/mall.jpg

maybe your second pic is not in cagayan de oro..

well i hope this is in cdo.. i'd love to see places like this one... lol... i found this on webshots..

where is this? highway to iligan? looks unfamiliar...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/hehehe.jpg

Looks not in the Philippines



another inside LKKMall...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/mall.jpg

Wow, it really is crowded

Looks not in the Philippines





Wow, it really is crowded

yup, regardless of time and day, LKK is always busy..

yea.. after it was renovated

pics po sa Robinsons BigR CDO na connected sa Limketkai Mall

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigr1.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigR3.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigR4.jpg

another hotel is being built at the back of the mall
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigR2.jpg

nice thread! are you head on with davao? hehehe, kasi may robinsons na kayo while with davao sm pa lang, ive heard that sm CDO was able to have its return of investement faster than the sm in davao, kasi daw people in cdo have a higher purchasing power. galeng! looks like cdo is on the right track, patuloy lang yan and in 5 to 8 years magiging parang cebu na rin

btw, sa CDO ba yung may mga live ostrich sa may pier? how are they? :) :) :)

nice thread! are you head on with davao? hehehe, kasi may robinsons na kayo while with davao sm pa lang, ive heard that sm CDO was able to have its return of investement faster than the sm in davao, kasi daw people in cdo have a higher purchasing power. galeng! looks like cdo is on the right track, patuloy lang yan and in 5 to 8 years magiging parang cebu na rin

btw, sa CDO ba yung may mga live ostrich sa may pier? how are they? :) :) :)

Ang alm ko yung mga ostrich nasa Opol municipality e, 30 mins lang ata na ride from city proper. Dun may Ostrich farm. Usually dinadala din nila yung mga tourists dun.

Speaking of Piers, let me share this pic i took last month when i went from Cebu.. I find CDO port to be the best in terms of service and facilities outside South Harbor in Manila:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/p4.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/p3.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/p2.jpg

the porters, who are all wearing these eyecatching yellow uniforms, are already lined up before the ship docks
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/p1.jpg

Ang alm ko yung mga ostrich nasa Opol municipality e, 30 mins lang ata na ride from city proper. Dun may Ostrich farm. Usually dinadala din nila yung mga tourists dun.

yup.. it's in opol... there's also a crocodile farm in opol.. it maybe not as big as palawan's and davao's, but pretty cool.. at least CDO has...

Speaking of Piers, let me share this pic i took last month when i went from Cebu.. I find CDO port to be the best in terms of service and facilities outside South Harbor in Manila:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/p4.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/p3.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/p2.jpg

the porters, who are all wearing these eyecatching yellow uniforms, are already lined up before the ship docks
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/p1.jpg

and yes... cdo's port for me is better than South harbor..imo.. south harbour looks so bare.. unlike cdo port, maybe small when compared to S.H. but preoccupied with trees.. and imo that makes a port promissing...

like for example, batangas' port... god, it is so huge.. equiped with international standards port facilities, foot bridges, huge cargo handling.... but it doesn't have trees... makes it look dull..

CDO's port is pretty clean and green..

nice thread! are you head on with davao? hehehe, kasi may robinsons na kayo while with davao sm pa lang, ive heard that sm CDO was able to have its return of investement faster than the sm in davao, kasi daw people in cdo have a higher purchasing power. galeng! looks like cdo is on the right track, patuloy lang yan and in 5 to 8 years magiging parang cebu na rin

if i am to base it with what you say...maybe... you mean, sm cdo earns more than sm davao does? woah... pretty amazing.. could the expansion of SM cdo manifest this? btw, sm cdo has now it's 4 level carpark..it's part of the expansion.. there is also expanded spaces for tenants..

about davao having no robinsons, i guess it has something to do with the security... remember the airport, sasa warf bombing.. maybe it's a factor..
and yes, i heard in the news that cdo is among the most peaceful place in mindanao..

if sm cdo is expanding it means that its gross size is not anymore 56k+ sq.m. something...

pics po sa Robinsons BigR CDO na connected sa Limketkai Mall

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigr1.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigR3.jpg

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigR4.jpg

another hotel is being built at the back of the mall
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigR2.jpg

still cant believe that this is bigger than Robinson's Place Cebu.

still cant believe that this is bigger than Robinson's Place Cebu.

here i am.. kush2.. gi disable ko sa mga taga country na insecure nato.. hehehe.. kabalo na mo kinsa.. anyway, cyrusal, u've been to robinsons cebu? u min our's is bigger?

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d2/cyrusal/bigR2.jpg

still can't understand why a hotel as big as this is built at the back of the robinsons... good if they will connect this to the mall...but if not, where will the guest pass by? by the robinsons parking? pretty awkward...

yup, your Robinsons CDO really is bigger.. havent been there but I know :D
Ours is very small...

but urs looks nicier coz lined with medium height skyscrapers... midtown right?

wow. i love yellow cabs.. are all cabs in CDO painted yellow? impressive downtown. looks ike Malate.

where is this? highway to iligan? looks unfamiliar...
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/angeleslew/hehehe.jpg


wow nice :applause:

wow. i love yellow cabs.. are all cabs in CDO painted yellow? impressive downtown. looks ike Malate.

nope, not all. but you can see many yellow cabs(taxi royale) in cdo.. since taxi royal dominates the taxi industry in the city.. they own more than a hundred taxi roaming around the city and neighboring towns...

but urs looks nicier coz lined with medium height skyscrapers... midtown right?

yup, Midtown hotel with 12 or 13 floors and at the back of Robinsons is the Metrobank plaza which has 15 storeys and club ultima 20 storeys and corown regency with 40 storeys but still u/c and infront of it is the Rajah Park hotel which has 8 storeys...hehe
maybe you've seen sa Cebu thread bout that crown regency, it's only about 20 to 50 steps from Robinsons Cebu. That buildings made Robinsons Cebu quite beautiful... :D

nope, not all. but you can see many yellow cabs(taxi royale) in cdo.. since taxi royal dominates the taxi industry in the city.. they own more than a hundred taxi roaming around the city and neighboring towns...

there are numerous toyota altis taxis in cdo too. while in davao, 90% are dilapidated kia pride.