Chico River (Philippines)
The Chico River (Spanish: Río Chico de Cagayán), is a river system in the Philippines in the island of Luzon, encompassing the regions of Cordillera and Cagayan Valley. It is the longest tributary of the Cagayan River with a total length of 233 km (145 mi).
| Chico River Río Chico de Cagayán | |
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The river along Bontoc | |
Chico River mouth Chico River (Philippines) (Philippines) | |
| Location | |
| Country | Philippines |
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| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Mount Data, Cordillera mountains |
| • coordinates | 16°55′01.5″N 120°54′26.9″E |
| • elevation | 2,079 m (6,821 ft) |
| Mouth | Cagayan River |
• location | Santo Niño, Cagayan, Cagayan Valley |
• coordinates | 17°57′50.5″N 121°36′36.2″E |
• elevation | 5 m (16 ft) |
| Length | 233 km (145 mi) |
| Basin size | 5,850 km2 (2,260 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Cagayan River |
| • average | 410 m3/s (14,000 cu ft/s) |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | Chico–Cagayan |
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The most extensive river in the Cordillera region, it covers the provinces of Mountain Province, Kalinga and Cagayan. It is referred to as a "river of life" for the Kalinga people who live on its banks, and is well known among development workers because of the Chico River Dam Project, an electric power generation project which local residents resisted for three decades before it was finally shelved in the 1980s - a landmark case study concerning ancestral domain issues in the Philippines.