Quirino, Philippines

Last modified: 2025-09-13 by zachary harden
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About

The Philippine Republic's Region II, Cagayan Valley, contains two landlocked provinces, Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya. Both are relatively small in size (3057 sq.km. for Quirino, 4081 sq.km. for Nueva Vizcaya) and population (147,000 and 365,000, respectively, by the 2000 census). Both are ruggedly mountainous and heavily forested. Quirino was set off as a subprovince in 1966, named in honor of the late Elpidio Quirino, second President of the independent Philippine Republic, and raised to the rank of a province by legislative act of 1971. Both are ethnically and linguistically diverse, with a substrate of Agtas, Negritos who are food-gatherers with no fixed abode, overlaid by Ilonggos and  others in a number of tribes, some of whom were fierce head-hunters until recently (we are firmly assured that they have given up the practice), with the latest but largest element of the population being Ilocanos. Quirino is divided into six towns; its capital is Cabarroguis. Agriculture in both has until recently consisted of slash-and-burn cultivation of corn and maize, though more stable cultivation of vegetables and fruits is becoming established, and Quirino now lists coffee and peanuts among its produce. Both also produce logs, and are trying to manage their forest resources so that production can be sustained indefinitely. They have deposits of gold, silver, copper, iron, and, in Quirino, marble, limestone, and guano. The marble is turned into tiles and figurines. Quirino contains the actual confluence of three mountain streams that is regarded as the head of the Cagayan River. Its shield shows the mountains from which the rivers and logs descend, the river descending to the sea, three trees symbolizing forest and wood products, and rice, maize, and tobacco plants.
John Ayer, 24 March 2001

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The flag used by the province is their seal on an orange background. (Source)
Zachary Harden, 11 September 2025

Former flag