Malaueg Church in Rizal, Cagayan, which is one of the oldest churches in the Philippines, turned 400 years old on November 21, 2017. It is one of the country’s National Cultural Treasure as declared by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts in 2001.

Cagua Volcano in Gonzaga, Cagayan is one of the 23 active volcanoes being monitored by PHIVOLCS as of 2015. But there’s nothing to worry about because the Philippines only has five volcanoes with Permanent Danger Zones (Bulusan, Taal, Mayon, Kanlaon and Hibok-Hibok) and Cagua is not one of them. It has already erupted twice; the first was in 1860 and the last one was in 1907. Cagua is a stratovolcano joining the likes of Pinatubo and Mayon.

In 2016, the first zipline in Cagayan was launched in Portabaga Falls Park and Resort, Sta. Praxedes. The zipline project has a length of 210 meters with an average riding time of 23 seconds and has two types of rides, the Superman Ride and the Hip Seat Ride.

Buguey is the “Crab Capital of the North” (some say “of the Philippines”), while Iguig is the “Pottery Capital” because it is rich in clay.  (http://twistthewayiseethings.blogspot.com/2011/03/10-interesting-facts-about-cagayan.html)

Magapit Suspension Bridge in Lal-lo is the first suspension bridge in Asia linking the first and second districts of Cagayan leading to the Ilocos region.

The bell found in the San Jacinto de Polonia Church belfry, Camalaniugan is the oldest bell in the far east. It was forged in the year 1595 and was brought to Manila in February 1987 as one of the attractions during the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress.

Aparri was formerly a Japanese trading post because of its location at the northern tip of Luzon at the mouth of the Cagayan River. It was the main area for trade for Japan in the island of Luzon. Much of the area was once home to the native Ibanag people, who were at the time in alliance with Japan as an early form of an informal protectorate city-state. It was formally established under Spanish rule in 1605 after the Spanish Crown seized the Philippines and made it part of the Spanish East Indies. Since it was on the route of Spanish Galleons during the great tobacco monopoly in the 16th to the 17th centuries, Aparri was therefore made one of the major Spanish ports of the Galleon Trade on May 11, 1680. The original inhabitants of this town were the Ybanags. Later, as the Spaniards settled and because of its strategic location, Ilocanos and Chinese people settled in the area.

In the years before the outbreak of World War II, it became a transshipment point for smuggled goods from China, Taiwan, and other neighboring Southeast Asian nations. Donald Blackburn’s guerrilla forces and the local troops of the Philippine Commonwealth Army and Philippine Constabulary are supported the Sixth United States Army Force B, in the capture of Aparri on 20 June 1945.