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Cagayan River

The 870th longest river in the world

505 km

The Cagayan River, also known as the Río Grande de Cagayán, is the longest river and the largest river by discharge volume of water in the Philippines. It has a total length of approximately 505 kilometres (314 mi) and a drainage basin covering 27,753 square kilometres (10, 715 sq mi). It is located in the Cagayan Valley region in northeastern part of Luzon Island and traverses the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya, Quirino, Isabela and Cagayan; it also flows through the only Central Luzon province of Aurora.

Flows through: Philippines.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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