Cavite Province

Also known as: Lalawigan ng Cavite

By Landon Little, Founder & CEO, Zentarai Labs · Updated 2026-06-14

Cavite is a province in Region IV-A (CALABARZON). Population 4.34M (PSA 2020 census), 7 cities + 16 municipalities, 829 barangays total, land area 1,574.17 km². Provincial capital: Imus City (de jure); Trece Martires City (provincial seat).

Population (2020 PSA)4,344,829
Land area1,574.17 km²
Cities + Municipalities7 + 16
Total barangays829
Income class1st
Annual budget (2024)₱8.2B

Provincial planning context

Cavite is Metro Manila's primary suburban-overflow province — per the Philippine Statistics Authority, it has the highest population density of any PH province outside NCR (about 2,760/km²) and the most subdivision-driven landscape change in the country. The PDPFP must coordinate the chaotic residential subdivision pattern across the lowland LGUs (Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, General Trias, Trece Martires, Tanza, Naic) with the Tagaytay-area tourism + agriculture mandate (Tagaytay City, Silang, Indang, Mendez), the historic Cavite naval district + Cavite City peninsula, and the increasingly urbanized southern coast (Maragondon, Ternate, Naic). The Cavite Coastal Road, CTBEx, and CALAX (Cavite-Laguna Expressway) all reshape land use simultaneously. Tagaytay's CLUP must protect view corridors + water supply for Metro Manila. Coastal flooding in Cavite City and Bacoor is a persistent climate-vulnerability concern flagged in NDRRMC assessments.

Key industries: Electronics + semiconductor manufacturing (PEZA), Garments + footwear, Tourism (Tagaytay highlands), Real estate + residential development, Agribusiness (coffee, mushroom, vegetable)

CLUP & SGLG status

CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / DHSUD): Province adopts its provincial land-use plan and reviews component-LGU CLUPs under RA 7160 (Secs. 20 & 468) and EO 72 (s. 1993), with DHSUD (RA 11201) as national review authority; PDPFP 2017-2026 follows DHSUD-NEDA-DILG JMC 2023-001. CLUP coordination intensive given the Cavite-Tagaytay-Batangas Expressway (CTBEx) alignment reshaping growth patterns, on the 12-year CLUP cycle (mandatory 6th-year midterm review, DHSUD MC 2025-018).
SGLG (for provinces), RA 11292: Assessed under the single Seal of Good Local Governance (RA 11292), DILG-administered, all-in across 10 governance areas. Note: the CY2025 assessment was deferred (DILG MC 2025-032) and criteria are being reprogrammed.

More on the regulatory framework: CLUP / RA 7160 explainer · SGLG explainer · full glossary.

How Nova Gov fits Cavite

Cavite's per-LGU coordination demand is the highest of any non-NCR province in the country. Nova Gov's regional dashboards for cross-LGU subdivision approval, traffic + transit alignment, and watershed coordination directly address the operational pain documented in the province's 2023 land-use audit.

See the 23-LGU subdivision dashboard for Cavite live

Cavite approves more subdivision and mixed-use conversions than any non-NCR province — and Bacoor, Imus, and Dasmariñas each grew past their own CLUP projections. Book a demo and we'll show the cross-LGU subdivision-approval view, with CALAX and CTBEx corridor alignment overlaid on your provincial framework plan.

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Explore Cavite on Nova Gov: Cavite shares the CALABARZON growth crunch with its neighbours — compare the Laguna tech-park-and-lake case and the Batangas Taal hazard-zoning case, both of which the CTBEx and CALA-Bay corridors tie directly to Cavite. The platform overview shows how the subdivision and transit overlays are structured.

Regulatory framework: CLUP compliance (RA 7160 / DHSUD) · SGLG explainer · Glossary · LGU directory · Province directory