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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 ...
Cavite, officially the Province of Cavite (Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Kabite; [a] Chavacano: Provincia de Cavite), is a province of the Philippines located in the Calabarzon region. On the southern shores of Manila Bay and southwest of Manila , it is one of the most industrialized and fastest-growing provinces in the Philippines.
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 ...
Carmona, Cavite (named after the town of Carmona in Seville, Spain.) Dasmariñas, Cavite (Spanish surname. Named after the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines, Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas.) El Salvador, Misamis Oriental (Spanish for "The Saviour", named after Jesus Christ.)
Naic, Cavite is one of the former barrios of Maragondon, along with 1) Magallanes (named after the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan); 2) Bailen (named after a town in Spain wherefrom the Friar Baltazar Narváez came, but renamed and now, General Emilio Aguinaldo, after the first President of the First Philippine Republic; 3) Tagaytay City, a former part of Alfonso; 4) Alfonso, (named ...
Trece Martires started as one of the largest and most remote barrios of Cavite. Originally named Quinta or Quintana, it was part of the municipality of Tanza.The land was basically agricultural subdivided into cattle ranches and sugar farms, with less than 1,000 hectares, at the intersection of the present Tanza–Trece Martires–Indang Road (Tanza–Trece Martires Road / Trece Martires ...
Bacoor (IPA: [bakoʔˈoɾ]), officially the City of Bacoor (Filipino: Lungsod ng Bacoor), is a component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 664,625 people, making it the 15th most populous city in the Philippines [3] and the second largest city in the province of Cavite after Dasmariñas.