Kalinga-Apayao In The Cordillera Region

Kalinga-Apayao is the province of the Philippines in the Cordillera Administrative Region in the island of Luzon. It is bounded on the north and east by Cagayan Province, on the south by Kalinga, on the southwest by Abra, and on the west by Ilocos Norte.  High mountains characterized most of the province with small flatlands in its border with Cagayan especially in the northeast. Seasons in the province are not very pronounced but the months of November up to April are relatively dry while the rest of the year is relatively wet. It is accessible by land either through Cagayan or Ilocos Norte. The Apayao tribe occupy most of the province with some Kalingas and Ilocano residents. It is the country's least populated province with only 24 persons per square kilometer. 

During the Second World War, Japanese Fighter and Bomber planes was invasion in the province of Kalinga-Apayao around the bombings and destroyed the air raids was around the towns and municipalities on December 1941 during the Japanese Invasion of the Philippines. Before the Japanese air raid at Camp John Hay in Baguio City in December 8, 1941. The soldiers of the Imperial Japanese armed forces was occupied and entering the provinces of Kalinga-Apayao.

The aftermath of four mounths of battle and through the surrender of all Igorot and Cordilleran soldiers and officers of the 11th Infantry Division, Philippine Commonwealth Army, USAFFE by the Japanese hands during the Fall of Bataan and Bataan Death March on April 9, 1942.

Many Igorot and Cordilleran men and women was joining the group of local guerrilla resistance fighters in Kalinga-Apayao was fought against the Japanese Imperial forces in Northern Luzon. Meanwhile, many Igorot and Cordilleran men was joining the group of soldiers and military officers of the Philippine Commonwealth Army under the U.S. Military Command is a locating of some military general headquarters and military camps and garrisoned in Kalinga-Apayao and around in Northern Luzon.