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| Established Title: | Established | ||
| Established Date: | October 29, 1903[1] | ||
| Parts Type: | Barangays | ||
| Parts Style: | para | ||
| P1: | (see Barangays) | ||
| Leader Title: | Mayor | ||
| Leader Name: | Erlinda C. Nuñez | ||
| Leader Title1: | Vice Mayor | ||
| Leader Name1: | Camilo T. Nuñez | ||
| Leader Name2: | Corazon N. Malanyaon | ||
| Leader Title3: | Municipal Council | ||
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Cateel (pronounced as /tl/), officially the Municipality of Cateel (ceb|Lungsod sa Cateel; tl|Bayan ng Cateel), is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Davao Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,207 people.
Cateel is the home of the Aliwagwag Falls, located at barangay Aliwagwag within the Aliwagwag Protected Landscape. It is a towering stream of waterfalls considered by hydraulic engineers as the highest in the country and regarded as one of the most beautiful falls in the Philippines. It is a series of 84 falls appearing like a stairway to heaven with various heights among the steps ranging from 2to. One step is measured and another is . Overall Aliwagwag Falls has a height of and a width of . All these in the midst of a virgin forest, a river settles at the foot of the falls with 13 rapids to cross.
Cateel is the first municipality in Mindanao. It was the place where Spaniards first docked in Mindanao which reflects how majority of its primary inhabitants converted to Catholicism.
In 1959, Mainit and Alegria were converted into barrios.[2]
The municipality was one of the hardest-hit towns of Typhoon Bopha when it hit the town on December 3, 2012.[3]
Cateel has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round with extremely heavy rainfall in December and January.
Cateel is politically subdivided into 16 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks while some have sitios.