Cagayan Valley

<p>Cagayan Valley , designated as Region II, is an <a href="/facts/Regions_of_the_Philippines/QNl8LElU">administrative region</a> in the <a href="/facts/Philippines/ARpmxXQV">Philippines</a>. Located in the northeastern section of <a href="/facts/Luzon/dJNpzhEM">Luzon</a>, it is composed of five <a href="/facts/Provinces_of_the_Philippines/o533JT2S">Philippine provinces</a>: <a href="/facts/Batanes/vazp6MqX">Batanes</a>, <a href="/facts/Cagayan/ul36BFnp">Cagayan</a>, <a href="/facts/Isabela_(province)/sB2LX1d6">Isabela</a>, <a href="/facts/Nueva_Vizcaya/1dnIrm1n">Nueva Vizcaya</a>, and <a href="/facts/Quirino/MrI1ayK1">Quirino</a>. The region hosts four chartered cities: <a href="/facts/Cauayan,_Isabela/cnwo4dQT">Cauayan</a>, <a href="/facts/Ilagan/H9sDbyqt">Ilagan</a>, <a href="/facts/Santiago,_Isabela/zXRDoy8l">Santiago</a>, and <a href="/facts/Tuguegarao/sl0hh9JC">Tuguegarao</a> (the regional center and largest city).
</p><p>Most of its land area lies in the valley between the <a href="/facts/Cordillera_Central_(Luzon)/NxCJrj6g">Cordilleras</a> and the <a href="/facts/Sierra_Madre_(Philippines)/WUK2oBFk">Sierra Madre</a> mountain ranges. The eponymous <a href="/facts/Cagayan_River/2IEMXoKB">Cagayan River</a>, the country's largest and longest, runs through the region, flows from the <a href="/facts/Caraballo_Mountains/lIC8X2nT">Caraballo Mountains</a>, and ends in <a href="/facts/Aparri/d0kVS0fK">Aparri</a>. Cagayan Valley is the second-largest Philippine administrative region by land area. According to a literacy survey in 2019, 93% of Cagayan Valley's citizens (ages 10 to 64) are <a href="/facts/Functional_literacy/CIlTH7C1">functionally literate</a>, which is 5th out of the 17 <a href="/facts/Regions_of_the_Philippines/QNl8LElU">regions of the Philippines</a>. 
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