The Shallows in Cagayan de Oro River

Thick lambago trees grew along the riverbanks of Cagayan de Oro River.  They were beautiful to behold, like many lovers locked in each other's embrace.  Before the infamous flood of 1916 the river was very deep and the boat "Dalupawon" used to come right up to the riverbank and sell its wares.

 

 

 

There used to be a very clean and wide shoreline which ran all the way from where the Kalambagohan street is now until the house of Mr. Isidro Vamenta near the present site of the city jail. After the flood, however, the river became shallow, and shallows appeared from near the house of the Vamentas until the barrio Consolacion at the north end of the city.

 

 

The flood was really enormous.  It rained for sixteen days.  The river encircled the town; it overflowed its banks and entered the city over the cogon areas of Macasandig, past the coconut groves of the Pelaez's, until it reached Camaman-an up to the present public market. 

 

Perhaps the large trees which were dislodged by the flood, and the Kompay areas above the river which were also detached from their moorings on the shore helped to create the shallows in the Cagayan de Oro River today.