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- This article is about the city in Isabela. For the municipality in Negros Occidental, see Cauayan (Negros Occidental)
Cauayan is a city in Isabela. It is the center of the tobacco industry in Cagayan Valley, and is also an important economic hub, mostly concentrated on agriculture, services and industry.
Understand
[edit | edit source]Founded on the ancestral lands of the Gaddang people, Cauayan started in what is now the barangay of Calanusian, along the Cagayan River, around 1740. Flooding along the Cagayan River forced the moving of the town into its present location further inland. In 2001, it became a legally-designated city. It is home to about 144,000 people (census, 1 July 2024) 
Most of the city's inhabitants are Ilocanos, but there are still some of the indigenous Gaddang living here.
Cauayan is a relatively young city, and is largely a stopover and a commercial center. It does have hotels, an airport, and malls, but little in the way of sights.
Get in
[edit | edit source]The main transport terminal is at SM City Cauayan.
By plane
[edit | edit source]- 1 Cauayan Airport (CYZ IATA), Airport Road, San Fermin. Cebu Pacific and PAL Express offers daily flights from Manila four times per week, using an Airbus A320 jet. Takes about 1½ hours, and tickets start from ₱5500. There are also flights by light, turboprop aircraft to the coastal municipalities of Isabela, including Palanan.
By bus
[edit | edit source]- 2 Cauayan City Central Bus Terminal, Cabaruan.
Major bus companies serving Cauayan include Dalin Bus Lines, Victory Liner, and G.V. Florida Transport. There are also smaller individually-owned companies that have buses coming from nearby towns.
Buses not terminating at Cauayan stop at the intersection of Maharlika Highway (Route 1/AH26), Governor Dy Boulevard (Rte 53), and Quezon Street, 200 m (660 ft) south of SM City Cauayan, as well as SM Cauayan itself.
By jeepney
[edit | edit source]Modern jeepneys connect Cauayan with the city of Ilagan to the north, Roxas to the northwest, and San Mariano to the northeast. Cauayan is also a key hub for passenger vans traveling between Tuguegarao and Santiago along the Maharlika Highway.
By car
[edit | edit source]Cauayan is along Asian Highway 26 (also Route 1, locally, the Maharlika Highway or the Cagayan Valley Road/CVR). It is (375 km (233 mi) away from Manila, 48 km (30 mi) from Santiago City and 35 km (22 mi) from Ilagan.
From Tuguegarao and the north, the main route is through the Santiago-Tuguegarao Road (Route 51) and the connecting Cabatuan Road (Route 53, becomes Governor Dy Boulevard upon entering Cauayan City), through Roxas and Cabatuan.
Get around
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Tricycles are widely available, especially within downtown and at the commercial district.
See
[edit | edit source]- 1 Hacienda De San Luis Eco-Tourism Park, San Luis, ☏ +63 916 915 5368. Tue-Sun 8AM-5PM.
- 2 Our Lady of the Pillar Parish Church (Cauayan Church), Mabini Street (beside city hall), ☏ +63 954 479 5809, olppcauayan@gmail.com. A Baroque Roman Catholic church, established in 1740. The original church included a belfry that was destroyed during a devastating earthquake, while the rest of the building except the façade was destroyed by American bombing raids in World War II. The reconstructed interior has been painted with frescoes and murals.
- 3 Meraki Garden, Maharlika Highway, Napaccu Pequeño, Reina Mercedes. 6:30AM–10PM. The park is spacious and has a lot of different things to offer. The plants looks beautiful and the park is well taken care for. ₱50.
- 4 Rizal Park, Pan-Philippine Highway. Open 24 hours. Free.
- 5 Bonsai No Sato Park, Faustino, ☏ +63 956 068 2101, klengguimbarda@yahoo.com. Bonsai garden.
Do
[edit | edit source]- Gawagaway-an Festival - Celebrates the cityhood of the city and the numerous ethnic groups inhabiting the city
Buy
[edit | edit source]- 1 Primark Town Center (Cauayan City Public Market), 45 Maharlika Highway corner Cortes Street, San Fermin, ☏ +63 919 086 0604, +63 908 818 8999. 8AM–6:30PM, 2AM-8PM public market. An amalgamation of the town's main market and a department store chain.
- 2 SM City Cauayan, Maharlika Highway, District II, customercare@smsupermalls.com. 10AM-9PM daily. Two-story SM mall, with a supermarket, cinema, department store, the first Uniqlo outlet in Cagayan Valley, and branches of national restaurant chains. Parking available at ₱15 for the first 3 hours (₱100 beyond that).
- 3 Talavera Square Mall, Consuelo Lucas Street, San Fermin (facing Cauayan Public Market). 8:30AM–8PM.
Eat
[edit | edit source]- 1 Green Mustard Countryside Pizza-Cauayan City, greenmustardcauayan@gmail.com. 9AM–10PM.
- 2 Otep's Tinuno, Banigan Street. 10AM–9PM. The resto offers a wide array of typical Filipino food from Pinakbet to Inihaw to Beef Bulalo. [dead link]
- 3 The Pares Corner - Cauayan City, #42 Judge Valle Street, San Fermin. 10AM-10PM.
- 4 Cheelogs, Airport Road, ☏ +63 992 897 7387. 9AM–9PM. Asian restaurant.
- 5 Taste of Cauayan, Road A, Coloma Subdivision, San Fermin (located in Rykas Hotel and Executive Rooms). By far the best place to get steak around Cauayan City. Their steak is excellently flavored.
- 6 Kabayan's Arrozcalduhan and Tapsilogan, Cabatuan Road, San Fermin. 8AM–8PM. Affordable and tasty Filipino food. Though, its self service. Worth to try.
- 7 The Lady Purple Restaurant, Don Laureño Lucas Street. 11AM–10PM. They serve the best ramen in Cauayan City.
- 8 La Casa by Mix Cuisines, Maharlika Highway. 10AM–8PM. Filipino/Asian Restaurant.
- 9 Tres Barakos Gotohan - Cauayan Branch, Maharlika Highway. Filipino comfort food.
Drink
[edit | edit source]- 1 Cafe 1254 - Cauayan, 68 Bala Street, San Fermin, ☏ +63 968 710 0742, cafe1254ph@gmail.com. 2–9PM Mon-Sat, 4-9PM Sun.
- 2 Teakaboo Cauayan, #114 Maharlika Highway, San Fermin, ☏ +63 9534155707. 10AM–9PM. Milk Tea, frappe, coffee.
- 3 2K2-Jackals Resto Bar, Canciller Avenue.
Sleep
[edit | edit source]- 1 The Hotel Sophia, Airport Road, San Fermin, ☏ +63 917 881 2379, thehotelsophia@yahoo.com. From ₱3200.
- 2 Mango Suites, Quezon Street, District I, ☏ +63 977 699 9120, +63 928 722 8412, toll-free: 078 325 8529Country code missing, mangosuitescauayan@yahoo.com. From ₱1300.
- 3 Rykas Restaurant and Executive Pads, Governor F.N. Dy Boulevard, San Fermin, ☏ +63 947 367 9413, melanie_almoradie@yahoo.com. Check-in: 2PM, check-out: noon.
- 4 JAPI Travellers Hotel, Maharlika Highway, Sillawit (beside JAPI gas station and in front of Iglesia ni Cristo), ☏ +63 917 542 4625, japihotel2011@yahoo.com.ph.
Connect
[edit | edit source]The city's postal code is 3305.
Go next
[edit | edit source]| Routes through Cauayan |
| Tuguegarao ← Reina Mercedes ← | N  S | → Alicia → Santiago City/Manila |
| END ← | E  W | → Luna → Cabatuan (Becomes  ) |