Cagayan de Oro, the "City of Golden Friendship", is the capital of the province Misamis Oriental. It is a clen and friendly university city with numerious schools. Golden Friendship Park, also known as Divisoria, is the right at the heart of the city.
An old legend explains how the name Cagayan is derived from the word kagayha-an, which means shame. The legend tells of an attack on a Manobo tribe by another tribe. The defeated villagers planned to retaliate, but before they could, their chieftain fell in love with the daughter of the enemy chieftain and married her. His disgusted subjects refferred to their village as a place of shame or Kagayha-an. The Spaniards pronounced it Cagayan and after they discovered gold in the river, it become Cagayan de Oro.
An old legend explains how the name Cagayan is derived from the word kagayha-an, which means shame. The legend tells of an attack on a Manobo tribe by another tribe. The defeated villagers planned to retaliate, but before they could, their chieftain fell in love with the daughter of the enemy chieftain and married her. His disgusted subjects refferred to their village as a place of shame or Kagayha-an. The Spaniards pronounced it Cagayan and after they discovered gold in the river, it become Cagayan de Oro.
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