Chico River
The Chico River is a river system in the Philippines on the island of Luzon that connects the Cordillera and Cagayan Valley regions. With a total length of 233 kilometers, it is the Cagayan River's longest tributary (145 mi).
It is the longest river in the Cordillera region, spanning the provinces of Mountain Province, Kalinga, and Cagayan. It is known among development workers as a "river of life" for the Kalinga people who live on its banks, and it is well known among development workers because of the Chico River Dam Project, an electric power generation project that local residents fought for three decades before it was finally shelved in the 1980s - a landmark case study concerning ancestral domain issues in the Philippines.
The Chico River is the longest tributary of the Cagayan River, stretching 233 kilometers (145 miles). The highest headwaters start along the slopes of Mount Data in the Cordillera mountains, near Bauko in Mountain Province. The river then flows northeast through Bontoc, Sabangan, Sadanga, Tinglayan, Lubuagan, Tabuk City, Pinukpuk, Tuao, Piat, Rizal, and finally to Santo Nio, where it joins the Cagayan River. The Bunog River to the south, the Tanudan and Biga Rivers to the east, the Mabaca and Saltan Rivers to the north, and the Pasil River further downstream are its tributaries.
Length: 233 km (145 mi)
