Population: 60,640
Land area: 26,393 hectares
Location: This capital of the province of Misamis Occidental is nestled on the coast of Iligan Bay.

Before 1993 Oroquieta was on the way down; poverty was either driving people away or turning them into rebels. To transform the city, officials launched the Barangay Self-Sufficiency Program (BSSP). The plan: to have the people plant cash crops and trees.

irst the city bought and leased lots and then donated them to the barangays for them to develop through the pahina system (a form of bayanihan ); the residents' contribution is their labor.

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