Higalaay Festival Kaumahan Agro-Fair and Garden Show 2025

The Higalaay Festival has become a traditional annual event to celebrate the feast of St. Augustine, the patron saint of Cagayan de Oro City. It is a month-long festivity that starts in the first week of August and culminates on August 28, the feast of Saint Augustine. Some of the highlights of the event include city sponsored activities such as culinary show, street parade, bisperas fireworks show, religious procession, horse show, marathon and beauty pageant to select and crown the Miss Cagayan de Oro of the year. In addition, private enterprises like night market, carnivals and others provide more enjoyment to the celebration. August 28 is a non-working holiday in the city and residents, especially the Catholic faithful, celebrate the fiesta by preparing and serving sumptuous foods to share with family, relatives, friends and other guests. In some cases the merriment include drinking, singing, and dancing.

The fiesta sa Kaumahan Agro-Fair and Garden Show 2025 is one of the Highlights of the Higalaay Festival where agricultural plants and products are displayed in Gaston Park near the Saint Augustine Cathedral. These plants are there for people to see or buy. These plants come from farmers of the city and other nearby municipalities and provinces as far as Davao.

Here are pictures of the Kaumahan Agro-Fair and Garden Show 2025.

 

 

Higalaay Festival 2017

Cagayan de Oro celebrates its annual fiesta on August 28, 2017, which is the feast day of Saint Augustine. The fiesta which is also called Higalaay Festival is a month-long celebration which features core events such as garden show, fashion summit, cowboy festival, Kahimunan Fair, marathon, street dance, fireworks display, street procession and fluvial parade. The activities culminate on August 28 on which families serve sumptuous foods, drinks to relatives, friends and other people who may visit their homes.

Although celebrating a fiesta is a Roman Catholic practice, it has become an accepted holiday for most of Kagay-anons so that it is embedded in their culture and traditions. For most of them, a year is not complete without celebrating the fiesta.

A means of merry making, the fiesta is also an instrument to showcase the city as a prime tourist and investment destination not only in Mindanao but also in the Philippines. Despite the armed conflict in the neighboring city of Marawi and the President's declaration of martial law, the Kagay-anons' enthusiasm to celebrate the fiesta in 2017 still remains unaffected. Happy Fiesta! Viva Senor San Agustin!