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Cavite. Hispanicized form of kawit or corruption of kalawit, Tagalog words for "hook," in reference to the small hook-shaped peninsula jutting into Manila Bay. [38] The name originally only applied to the peninsula (Cavite La Punta, now Cavite City) and the adjacent mainland coastal area (Cavite Viejo, now Kawit). Cavite City used to serve as ...
Mexicans weren't the only Latin Americans in Cavite, as there were also a fair number of other Latin Americans, one such was the Puerto Rican, Alonso Ramirez, who became a sailor in Cavite, and published the first Latin American novel called "Infortunios de Alonso Ramirez" [17] The years: 1636, 1654, 1670, and 1672; saw the deployment of 70, 89 ...
Poverty incidence of Cavite City 2.5 5 7.5 10 12.5 15 2006 4.70 2009 5.50 2012 5.43 2015 6.94 2018 5.70 2021 12.71 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Culture Festivals and events The Original Venerated Image of San Juan Bautista de Cavite the true center of the annual Regada Festival. The city is home to the Annual Cavite City Water Festival or Regada, held from the 17th to the 24th of ...
Name origin Alaminos: Pangasinan: Juan Alaminos y Vivar, Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. Angeles: none: a contraction of its original Spanish name El Pueblo de los Ángeles which means "The Town of Angels." Antipolo: Rizal: Hispanicized form of the Tagalog phrase ang tipolo which means "the breadfruit", the tree that grew ...
Chavacano or Chabacano (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃaβaˈkano]) is a group of Spanish-based creole language varieties spoken in the Philippines.The variety spoken in Zamboanga City, located in the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao, has the highest concentration of speakers.
Sangley (English plural: Sangleys; Spanish plural: Sangleyes) and Mestizo de Sangley (Sangley mestizo, mestisong Sangley, chino mestizo or Chinese mestizo) are archaic terms used in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era to describe respectively a person of pure overseas Chinese ancestry and a person of mixed Chinese and native Filipino ancestry. [1]
Imus (Tagalog pronunciation:), officially the City of Imus (Filipino: Lungsod ng Imus), is a component city and de jure capital of the province of Cavite, Philippines.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 496,794 people.
Polo y servicio was the forced labor system without compensation [1] imposed upon the local population in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period. [2] In concept, it was similar to Repartimiento, a forced labor system used in the Spanish America.