Cagayan de Oro

[kah-gah-yahn de aw-raw]

noun

1. a city in the Philippines, on NW Mindanao.

Example Sentences

Locally known as Odette, the typhoon made landfall on Thursday on the southeastern island of Siargao — a tourist hot spot popular among surfers — then moved northwest, passing through major cities, including Cebu and Cagayan de Oro.

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They also used rubber boats to ferry people to safety, as the waters quickly rose in Cagayan de Oro, a city of 730,000 on Mindanao Island that is bisected by a major river system.

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In southern Cagayan de Oro city, footage showed two rescuers struggling to keep a month-old baby inside a laundry basin above the water and shield it from the wind and rain with an umbrella.

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Philippine Coast Guard officers floated the infant through chest-deep water in Cagayan de Oro city in the south of the country.

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The plane was flying in from Cagayan de Oro City, over 450 miles south of Manila.

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