page_title: Tuguegarao
section_title: Demographics
hierarchical_section_title: Tuguegarao / Demographics
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the Archbishops Photo.
context_page_description: Tuguegarao, officially the City of Tuguegarao, is a 3rd class component city and capital of the province of Cagayan, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 153,502 people, making it the most populous city in Cagayan Valley and Northeastern Luzon.
  A major urban center and primary growth center in the Northeastern Luzon, it is the regional center of Cagayan Valley and also its regional institutional and administrative center. One of the fast emerging cities in the Philippines, the city is a convergence area for the provinces of Cagayan, Kalinga, Apayao and northern Isabela.
  Dubbed as the “Gateway to the Ilocandia and the Cordilleras, ” the city is located on the southern border of the province where the Pinacanauan River empties into the Cagayan River. It is surrounded by the Sierra Madre Mountains to the east, Cordillera Mountains to the west, and the Caraballo Mountains to the south.
  The highest temperature ever recorded in the Philippines—42.2 °C —hit Tuguegarao on August 19, 1912 and May 11, 1969.
context_section_description: In the 2015 census, the population of Tuguegarao was 153,502 people with a density of 1,100 inhabitants per square kilometre or 2,800 inhabitants per square mile. It is the most populous and densest city in the Cagayan Valley region. Most of the inhabitants are Ilocanos, Ibanags and Itawes.  Some are of Chinese and Indian descent.
caption: Ricardo Baccay, the incumbent Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuguegarao
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