It was only in 1619 when the town gained complete and independent status as a parish by virtue of a papal bull believed to have come directly from Rome.

In fact, this was why, again according to the legends, the two Puhawan brothers of Lumban, in search of food in early 1600, reached Cavinti where they found an image which turned out to be that of El Salvador.

Today on that hallowed grounds stands majestically the centuries-old Catholic Church in honor of El Salvador built by the town's forebears for all the generations to enjoy and cherish.

[8] Cavinti became one of the municipalities with high insurgency due to the construction of hydropower dam where several lands were submerged.

In the 1930s, Teodoro Asedillo and his group operated in Cavinti, holding meetings in schools to explain the aims of the Katipunan ng mga Anak-Pawis sa Pilipinas and recruit fighters to his cause.

He garnered major support in Cavinti and nearby towns, who would shelter him, provide him with funds and other resources.

The Americans also seeded the lake with Largemouth Black Bass imported from the US, which continues to proliferate and provide game fishers with year-round weekend excitement.

In fact, the two lakes are some of the places in the whole country where Philippine anglers can attempt to catch the famed Largemouth Black Bass, one of the top freshwater gamefish of the United States of America.

Thus, there was no further development for the town of Cavinti until the 1960s, when ground was broken on the Lake Caliraya shoreline for the building of the resort communities, which began a period of economic rebirth.

[12] Today, the highland town of Northeastern Laguna continues to grow economically and as a tourism center for visitors coming from all over the country and overseas.

Like most areas in the province of Laguna, the Climate of Cavinti is characterized by two pronounced seasons: dry from March to May and wet during the rest of the year.

The rehabilitation of 25 hectares of denuded upland forest along the eastern (Brgy, Caliraya) and northern (Brgy, Paowin) shores of the Caliraya Watershed in the Cavinti municipality of Laguna was signed in a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between the country's Climate Change Commission (CCC) and the National Power Corporation (Napocor).

Sources of income of the people of Cavinti are mainly focused on tourism and agriculture such as palay, bamboo, pandan, copra, coconut, vegetables and fruit trees.

The business income of the local government primarily comes from CBK Power Plants, Resorts, Hotels and Restaurants and operation of several tourism-related projects.

[citation needed] Annual budget: Natural features like waterfalls, rivers, lakes, caves and mountains are located in Cavinti.