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CULTURE of
CAGAYAN
VALLEY
•GEOGRAPHY
•MUSIC
•DANCE
•LITERATURE
Presented by:
Gomez, Hernando Jr.
Hailil, Lou Jain
BEED-ED2A
-BRIEF HISTORY
•the Cagayan Valley has been inhabited for a half million years,
though no human remains of any such antiquity have been yet
appeared.
•AGTA or ATTA
-the earliest inhabitants,
and a food gatherers who
roam the forest without
fixed abodes.
→The bulk of the population are of Malay origin. For
centuries before the coming of the Spanish, the
inhabitants traded with Indians, Malays, Chinese, and
Japanese.
In the nineteenth century the prosperity
found in tobacco cultivation caused
many Ilokano to settle here .
TABACCO is still a major factor in the
economy of Cagayan, though a special
economic zone and free port has been
created to strengthen and diversify the
provincial economy.
• Present-day chroniclers hold that the name was
originally derived from the “TAGAY” , (a plant that
grows abundantly in the northern.)
• The term “CATAGAYAN” , it means the place where the

tagay grows. And it was shortened to CAGAYAN
• More conventionally, etymological scholars hold

that cagayan comes from an ANCIENT WORD that
means RIVER. Variations of this word-karayan,
kayan, kayayan, and kalayan-all mean river.
GEOGRAPHY
Region II or the Cagayan Valley is located
in the northeastern portion of the main
island of Luzon and includes the scattered
Island of Batanes-Babuyan.
It is composed of five provinces: Batanes,

Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya and
Quirino.
And it is bounded by 3 mountain ranges:

Sierra Madre (East) , Caraballo Mountain
(South) , Cordillera Mountain (North)
The Region has a rich and immense natural and
development potentials.
It is the third largest region with an area of 2,687,517
hectares representing the 9% of the country's total land
area.
Region II is abundant in
agricultural products such
as: rice, corn peanut beans
and fruits. Also, livestock
products include cattle, hogs,
curacao's, and poultry.
PEOPLE IBANAG (YBANAG, IBANAK,
YBANAK)
-refers to the people as
well as the language
spoken in Northern
Luzon, Philippines.
The majority of people living in Cagayan are

of Ilocano descent, mostly from migrants
coming from the Ilocos Region. Originally,
the more numerous group were the Ybanags.
MUSIC♪
•The Ybanag music (awit) are psalms about love, and the message
that it usually portray is about a promise, a confession, an
assurance of one's love to another, or about a sacrifice one can
offer to his dear one.
•The diffusion of the songs from the Ybanags and its singers went
to the peak of its level during the time where the male sings
serenades for the female they wanted to be their wife.
•Verzo •Neneng
•Verzistas •O Lappaw
•Lappaw na Asusena •Nerulay Nga Daddam
•Bagu Nga Aya •Tu Manoli Y Aya
•VERZO
-is the Ibanag counterpart of the Spanish coplas, a four-line rhymed Spanish
songs which appeared during the Golden Age of Spain's Literature. Often
composed on the spot by the versista during social occasions like weddings,
baptisms, it is intended to entertain and to moralize.
•VERZISTAS
-Cagayan's version of the scop, minstrel, bards of England and European
countries who is lavishly repaid by the host with gift or cash, palay, corn or
any food stuff.
•LAPPAW NA ASUSENA (Asusena Flower)
-this song speaks of the admiration of a lover for hid loved-one. He
compares his beloved to an asucena flower which is visited everyday by
butterflies.
•BAGU NGA AYA (New Love)
- a series of songs is all about a young man who is starting to court a young
woman. It speaks of humility of the young man. He is asking the father of the
woman he intends to court to shower him with goodness. This song shows
that before an Itawes or Ibanag young man courts a woman, he must first
court the parents.
•NENENG (Beloved)
-when the Ibanags/Itawes gentlemen goes out for serenading, he sings this
song to his beloved. The song tells about a young man asking his beloved to
peep out of her window to listen and comfort his sorrowing heart.
•O LAPPAW (O Flower)
-the song speaks of a lover comparing his beloved to a flower. According to
him, the beauty of his beloved is the source of his joy and consolation
•NERULAY NGA DADDAM (Grief)
-the song unfolds to us the bitterness that a lover experiences when his
beloved turns away from him. He experiences self-pity. He prefers to die than
to live if his beloved will not come back to him
•TU MANOLI Y AYA (That Love May Return)

. -this song is about a lover who is wishing that his beloved will come back to
him/her. He is praying that their love will bloom again.
DANCE
“PATTONG”
It is a traditional dance of the Ibanag
people in Cagayan Valley. It is performed
by a group of dancers who move in a
circular formation while holding bamboo
poles. The dance involves intricate
footwork and rhythmic tapping of the
bamboo poles on the ground.
✧LITERATURE✧
•Ybanag folk literature, like any other literature, is the expression of
Cagayanos' emotions and have spread to some parts of Northern Luzon.
In a span of around 500 years, the Ibanag literary, balladeer, and minstrel,
and rural folks and countryside mystics have composed and handed down a
great number of folk literature promoting love, peace, justice, honesty,
unity, morality, reconciliation, and lifestyle improvement because of the
divisiveness and vices everyday conflicts can bring to a person.
•Their literature is didactic, moralistic, predominantly sentimental,
romantic, socialistic, comic and spiritual.
LITERARY WORKS
•POETRY
-their poetry, on the other hand, is mostly sung, which explains how it was handed
down to the present: by way of oral tradition. They are also fond of making proverbs
(unoni) and riddles (palavvun).
•OLD SONGS, PROVERBS and POEMS
-it still sung today, alongside the instruments Kuribaw, tulali and the kuritang
produced by Ibanags. These produced warlike or sad music.
•EPIC
“Biuag Anni Malana”
Cagayan's legendary figures – Biuag and
Malana – who were said to have fought their epic
battle for supremacy over the hand of the beautiful
"Maguinganay" by swapping volleys of uprooted
trees and live cattle.
Thank You!
REFERENCES:
http://ncca.gov.ph/subcommissions/subcommission-on-cultural-
communities-and-traditional-arts-sccta/northern-cultural-
communities/cagayan-valley-the-ibanag/
https://www.scribd.com/doc/97738718/Region-II-Cagayan-Valley
https://cagayano.tripod.com/arts/moresongs.html

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• The term “CATAGAYAN” , it means the place where the

• More conventionally, etymological scholars hold

It is composed of five provinces: Batanes,

And it is bounded by 3 mountain ranges:

The majority of people living in Cagayan are

•TU MANOLI Y AYA (That Love May Return)

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