Santiago City - Santiago 6.4

Santiago,
Philippines
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Santiago, officially the ', or simply as Santiago City' is a independent component of the Philippines in,. According to the, it has a population of people.Formerly known as Pueblo de Carig in old Spanish time, it is located between southwestern part of Isabela and northwestern boundary of Quirino in Northeastern Luzon island of the Philippines. It is the gateway to the vast plains of Cagayan Valley.Santiago is situated north of Metro Manila. The city sits on a vast area of predominantly flat and fertile land in the Cagayan Valley, surrounded by the Caraballo Mountains to the south, the Great Sierra Madre to the east and the Cordillera Mountain Range to the west.Though geographically located within the boundaries of the province of, and part of the province's 4th District, Santiago City is administratively and legally independent from the province as stated in Section 25 of the LGC.HistoryThe origin of Santiago City can be drawn from the first native settlement discovered by the early Spanish missionaries at the bank of the old Carig River from which its original name, Carig, was derived. The early inhabitants were the Gaddangs and the Ibanags. When the Spanish settled in, the city was named Pueblo of Santiago Apostol de Carig, with Santiago as the Spanish name of Saint James the Apostle. In the early 1950s, the Municipal President Vicente Carreon changed the name to simply Santiago. Santiago remained a municipality for 84 years.

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