Cabarroguis, Province of Quirino, Cagayan Valley Region, Philippines

🇵🇭 Cabarroguis, officially the Municipality of Cabarroguis (Ili ti Cabarroguis; Bayan ng Cabarroguis), is a 3rd class municipality and capital of the province of Quirino, Philippines.

History Prior to the advent of settlement, Cabarroguis was a vast forested area and formed parts of the municipalities of Saguday, Diffun and Aglipay. It was originally occupied by the Aetas who were later displaced by the Ilongot tribe because the Aetas were known to be of nomadic character. Many years later, permanent settlements were made by different civilized ethnic groups like Ilocanos, Tagalog and others in search of good fortune in this virgin land. As the population and settlement increased, regular barrios were created. These are the barrios of Zamora, Banuar, Burgos, Del Pilar, Dibibi, Eden, Villamor and five (5) more sitios of Villapeña, Villarose, Tucod, Calaocan and Dingasan at the municipality of Aglipay: barrios of San Marcos, Gundaway and portion of Mangandingay at the municipality of Diffun and the other part of Mangandingay at the municipality of Saguday. The above stated barrios of different municipalities became the territorial jurisdiction of Cabarroguis by virtue of Republic Act No. 5554 enacted by the Philippine Congress authored by then Honorable Senator Leonardo Perez on June 21, 1969. The newly created municipality of Cabarroguis was named in honor of the late Congressman of Nueva Vizcaya, Honorable Leon Cabarroguis.

Cabarroguis operated as a regular municipality after the 1971 local polls wherein Honorable Anastacio dela Pena become the first Local Chief Executive. Barangay Mangandingay also became the temporary seat of the municipal government, Years later, when Honorable Diomedes Dumayas was appointed as the town's executive, the seat of the Local Government officially transferred to Barangay Zamora where a 12 hectares lot was donated.

Cityhood In the 19th Congress of the Philippines, house bills were filed by various representatives which seeks Cabarroguis including other capital towns of provinces with no current component cities, independent component cities or highly urbanized cities to automatically convert into cities.

Geography Cabarroguis is located in the north-western part of the province of Quirino. It is bounded on the north, north-west and north-east by the municipalities of Diffun and Saguday respectively, on the east and south-east by the municipality of Aglipay, on the south by the municipalities of Maddela and Nagtipunan, and on the west by the province of Nueva Vizcaya. It is 380 km (240 mi) from Manila.

The municipal area of Cabarroguis covers 26,902 hectares approximately. The area is further distributed into the seventeen (17) barangays comprising the municipality including barangay Didipio which remains to be in the municipality and the province of Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino.

Barangays Cabarroguis is politically subdivided into 17 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.

Urban: Gundaway; Zamora; Mangandingay; San Marcos.

*Rural: * Villarose; Banuar; Villamor; Del Pilar; Villapeña; Burgos; Eden; Gomez; Dingasan; Calaocan; Dibibi; Sto. Domingo; Tucod (including Didipio).

Education The Schools Division of Quirino governs the town's public education system. The division office is a field office of the DepEd in Cagayan Valley region. The office governs the public and private elementary and public and private high schools throughout the municipality.