Cordillera Administrative Region

Administrative divisions

Cordillera Administrative Region is politically subdivided into 6 provinces. It has 2 cities; the highly urbanized city of Baguio, and the component city of Tabuk. There are 1,176 barangays in the region. Geographically, the western half of Nueva Vizcaya is part of the main Cordilleras, while its eastern half is part of the Caraballos, the meeting point of the Cordilleras and the Sierra Madre. There have been moves to reunify Nueva Vizcaya with the Cordilleras, however, no such legislation has yet been introduced in Congress.

Provinces

Cities

Municipalities

Barangays

Name	Type	Population (2020)	Population (2015)	Annual Population Growth Rate (2015‑2020)	Area (2013), in km²	Density (2020), per km²	City count	Mun count	Brgy count
Abra	province	250,985	241,160	0.84%	4,199.72	60	0	27	303
Apayao	province	124,366	119,184	0.90%	4,502.33	28	0	7	133
Baguio	city (HUC), regional center	366,358	345,366	1.25%	57.51	6,370	–	–	129
Benguet	province	460,683	444,224	0.77%	2,769.08	166	0	13	140
Ifugao	province	207,498	202,802	0.48%	2,618.01	79	0	11	176
Kalinga	province	229,570	212,680	1.62%	3,282.04	70	1	7	153
Mountain Province	province	158,200	154,590	0.49%	2,389.43	66	0	10	144
Cordillera Administrative Region Total		1,797,660	1,722,006	0.91%	19,818.12	91	2	75	1,178

Governors and vice governors

Provinces	Governor	Political Party	Vice Governor
Abra	Dominic Valera	NUP	Maria Jocelyn Bernos
Apayao	JElias Bulut Jr.	NPC	Remy N. Albano
Benguet	Melchor Diclas	PDP-Laba	Ericson Lawagey Felipe
Ifugao	Jerry U. Dalipog	KBL	Glenn D. Prudenciano
Kalinga	James Edduba	Lakas	Jocel Baac
Mountain Province	Bonifacio C. Lacwasan	PDP-Laban	Francis O. Tauli

History of Ilocos Region

On July 15, 1987, Executive Order No. 220 was issued creating the Cordillera Administrative Region. It is composed of provinces which used to be part of the Old Mountain Province. Republic Act No. 6766 was passed on October 23, 1989. It provided for an Organic Act for the Cordillera Autonomous Region. It mandates the creation of an autonomous government to be headed by a Regional Governor.

It creates a Regional Assembly that will enact laws of regional application and a regional judiciary composed of a supreme court and lower courts. The act also directs the proposed autonomous government in the Cordillera to exercise governmental functions, including the raising of taxes, but excluding defense, foreign affairs and monetary functions. However, the Constitution requires that the act has to be ratified by the people in a plebiscite. It was originally scheduled on December 27 of the same year but was reset to January 30 the following by virtue of the Commission on Elections. During the said plebiscite, it was only Ifugao which voted favorably.

Republic Act No. 8438 dated December 22, 1997 created the Cordillera Autonomous Region. In January 1998, a group of lawyers challenged the constitutionality of the act. A plebiscite held on March 9 of the same year was held and invalidated the act. The region was created but reduced to a regular administrative region.

Map

Cordillera Administrative Region is bordered on the East by the Cagayan Valley, and West by the Ilocos Region.

Demographics

Combining age groups together, those aged 14 and below, consisting of the young dependent population which include infants/babies, children and young adolescents/teenagers, make up an aggregate of 31.16% (536,624). Those aged 15 up to 64, roughly, the economically active population and actual or potential members of the work force, constitute a total of 63.79% (1,098,483). Finally, old dependent population consisting of the senior citizens, those aged 65 and over, total 5.05% (86,899) in all.

The computed Age Dependency Ratios mean that among the population of Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR), there are 49 youth dependents to every 100 of the working age population; there are 8 aged/senior citizens to every 100 of the working population; and overall, there are 57 dependents (young and old-age) to every 100 of the working population.

The median age of 24 indicates that half of the entire population of Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) are aged less than 24 and the other half are over the age of 24.

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1903	145,186	—
1918	267,041	+4.15%
1939	384,654	+1.75%
1948	364,720	−0.59%
1960	551,032	+3.50%
1970	730,906	+2.86%
1975	811,103	+2.11%
1980	914,432	+2.43%
1990	1,146,191	+2.29%
1995	1,254,838	+1.71%
2000	1,365,220	+1.82%
2007	1,520,847	+1.50%
2010	1,616,867	+2.25%
2015	1,722,006	+1.21%
2020	1,797,660	+0.85%