As a physical region, the Cordillera is a row of great mountain ranges occupying half of Northern Luzon. Its rugged mountainous backbone contains many peaks exceeding 2,000 meters in height, with rolling hills and stretches of river valleys along its flanks. Baguio City, the famous Sagada, the second highest mountain in Philippines Mt. Pulag, Abra’s inhabitants of Ilocano and Tingguian tribes while the Apayao among the earliest areas penetrated by the Spaniards was few of the famous places in the Corderillera.

The Ifugao’s Tribes

A big bulk of the Cordillera population is composed of closely-related indigenous peoples. Collectively, our peoples are popularly known as Igorot. Often we are also grouped into a number of ethnic or ethno-linguistic identities, such as Apayao or Isneg, Tinggian, Kalinga, Bontoc, Kankanaey, Ibaloy, Ifugao, and Bago.