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History of Cagayan de Oro


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The area was first inhabited around 377 C.E. (the late Neolithic period), island natives lived in a settlement then known as Himologan (now known as Huluga), eight kilometers from present-day Cagayan de Oro. The natives were polytheistic animists. Ceramics were found in the area, Chinese had probably visited during Ming dynasty period.

Spanish colonial period

In 1622, two Spanish Augustinian Recollect missionaries came in contact with the natives of Himologan and in 1626, Fray Agustín de San Pedro persuaded the chief of

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