Parao de Cavite is a traditional Filipino sailing boat that originated from Cavite. It is a traditional wooden boat characterized by its long, narrow design, typically made from sturdy hardwood such as molave or yakal. It features outriggers or katig (floats) on either side for stability and balance. The sail is typically made of woven materials like canvas or banig (a traditional Filipino mat), and it is hoisted on a mast.
Historically, the Parao was used for various purposes, including fishing, transportation, and trade. It played a significant role in the seafaring culture of Cavite, serving as a means of livelihood and connecting communities along the coast.
Que alegri si tiene pa rin asina esti ora y galleon masqui replica na di pudi embarca para na mga turista na di anda aqui na ciudad.
In 2019, the NMP declared the entire Cavite peninsula, where the fortified town of Cavite Puerto (now Cavite City) is located, as an NCT.
Included in this declaration was the old causeway, now M. Valentino Street to Ramon Samonte Park to Naval Station, the Sta. Monica Church belfry, main gate and western portion of Fort San Felipe, and “the sites, vestiges and archaeological remains of its Spanish colonial era fortifications, military buildings and installations, shipyards, public monuments, public buildings, churches and religious buildings, houses and private establishments, streets and other infrastructure, together with associated anchorages and underwater sites in Bacoor and Caรฑacao Bay, and its intrinsic natural setting overall relative to the surrounding water.”
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Did we really win with the airport development news or we will eventually be losing the main treasure of the entire province and one main treasure of the entire country .
A National Cultural Treasure, or NCT, is “a unique object found locally, possessing outstanding historical, cultural, artistic and/or scientific value which is significant to this country and nation” (Section 3 of Presidential Decree No. 374)
People of the city travel through sailboats, ferry, caratela, trains, jeeps and buses. And this is how the transportation in the city looks like before.
Sailboat from Cavite to Manila in 1800.
Caratela were also used in 1800.
The earliest type of train in 1900s.
Cavite was connected to the railway service in 1908 but discontinued in 1936.
The train passengers in 1909.
The abandoned railway system called TRAMO or Daang Bakal now invaded by the informal settlers.
Calesa were commonly used as transport in Cavite.
The proto type of rail wagon.
The carromata.
This type of bus was used in 1930s by TOLEDO AUTO BUS in Manila - Cavite route.
The earliest bus model in 1900.
Manila ferry service between Cavite and Manila in 1900s operated by the Yangco.
The most commonly used for land travel, calesa, the king of the road.
The rail wagon.
The bus and truck service between Manila and Cavite in 1940s.
Jeepney on Manila Boulevard, Santa Cruz, Cavite City, 1960s.
Jeepneys in Cavite City, 1960s.
Saulog Transit and Saint Raphael Transit served the city for many years.
Cavite City-Cavite el Puerto & Cavite la
Punta/ Kawite la Punta (literally means 'Cavite's end' / 'Cavite's endmost
part'.The name came from 'hook's like shape enpoint (Tagalog : dulo ng kawit,
or dulo ng pangkawit) of the place as seen in the map.
Dasmarinas-Tampus & Perez Dasmarinas
Gen.Trias-San Francisco de Malabon &
Malabon Grande & Hacienda & Las Estancias
Gen.Aguinaldo-Bailen
GMA (General Mariano Alvarez)-Carmona
Resettlement Project; (formerly combined Bggys.of San Jose & San Gabriel of
Carmona Town)
Indang-Indan
Kawit-Cavite
el Viejo / Cauite el Viejo/Kawite el Viejo(literally means "Old
Cavite"; it is referred as "Magdalo" by revolutionaries during
Philippine Revolution.Magdalo is also the political party name of Gen.Emilio
Aguinaldo.
Noveleta-Tierra Alta & Nobeleta/ it is
referred as "Magdiwang" by the revolutionaries during Philippine
Revolution.Magdiwang is also the political party name of Supreme Leader &
Tagalog Republic President Gat Andres Bonifacio.
Rosario-Tejeros & Marseilla de Salinas
Silang-Silanganan
Tanza-Sta.Cruz de Malabon & Malabon el
Chico
Tagaytay-Sula
Ternate-Galala & Barra de Maragondon
Trece Martirez-Quinta / Quintana - (from Tanza
town's former 13 baranggays created as new City after 13 Filipino martyrs
linked to revolution were executed by Spaniards)
+Amadeo-Masilaw...Amadeo derived its name
from Spanish king Amadeo I, Amadeo is Spanish words means "Blessed by God
/ Loved by God ".
+Imus-same name Imus from deep Tagalog word
Imus that means-"Lupain sa pagitan ng mga nagsa'salubongan' mga ilog....It
is formally referred as Hacienda de San Juan Bautista de Imus Recoletos in some
historical documents...Other theoretical and folk legend origin of its name are
infimus (lowland), centimos (centavos),& limos (alms).
On May 16, 1571 the Spanish conquistador Miguel Lรณpez de Legazpi declared the region a royal encomienda, or royal land grant. Spanish colonizers settled in the most populated area of the place (present day Kawit), they called it Cavite. The old Tangway at the tip of the Cavite Peninsula, across Bacoor Bay was referred to as Cavite la Punta meaning "Point of Cavite" or Cavite Point. Upon discovering that because of its deep waters, Cavite la Punta was a suitable place for the repair and construction of Spanish ships and galleon, the Spanish moved their settlement there and called it Cavite Nuevo (New Cavite) or plainly Cavite, while the first settlement was renamed "Cavite Viejo" (and in the early 20th century, regained its former name, Kawit).
In 1590, the Spaniards fortified Cavite Nuevo with a muralla (high thick curtain walls) on its western, northern and eastern side while the side fronting Baccor Bay remained open. Fort Guadalupe on the easternmost tip was also built at the same time, and the town became the Puerto de Cavite (Port of Cavite) or Cavite Puerto. The Fort of San Felipe Neri and Porta Vaga gate were constructed in 1595 and completed in 1602. Puerta Vaga (corrupted to Porta Vaga) was the port city's barbican western and only principal entrance from San Roque. It was flanked by the western wall protected by two bastions at its north and southern end. The wall and gate were also separated from the mainland by a moat, which also made the town like an island..
Cavite was officially founded as a town in 1614 with Tomรกs Salazar as the earliest known gobernadorcillo recorded. At the same time, the town became the capital of the new politico-military province of Cavite, established also in 1614. Like some other provinces during the Spanish era, the province adapted the name of its capital town [e.g., Bulacan, Bulacan; Tayabas, Tayabas (now Quezon province); Tarlac, Tarlac; Manila, Manila province ; Balayan, Balayan Province (now Batangas); Taal, Taal (now Batangas); and the present Batangas, Batangas].
San Roque was founded as a separate town also in 1614. At 1663, during the Spanish evacuation of Ternate, Indonesia, the 200 families of mixed Mexican-Filipino-Spanish and Papuan-Indonesian-Portuguese descent who had ruled over the Christianized Sultanate of Ternate and included their Sultan who converted,[9] were relocated to Ternate, Cavite plus Ermita, Manila and San Roque, Cavite. It was placed under the civil administration of Cavite Puerto until it was granted a right to be a separate and an independent municipality in 1720. La Caridad, formerly known as La Estanzuela of San Roque, separated and was founded as town in 1868. The Spanish Governor General Jose de la Gardana granted the petition of the people led by Don Justo Miranda to make barrio La Estanzuela an independent town.
The Governor's Palace in the Navy Yard at the old Port City of Cavite (1899)
Chavacano or Chabacano originated from the Spanish word chabacano which literally means "poor taste", "vulgar", "common", "of low quality", "tacky", or "coarse".
During the Spanish colonial period, it was called by the Spanish-speaking population as the "lenguaje del calle", "lenguaje de parian" (language of the street), or "lenguaje de cocina" (kitchen Spanish to refer to the Chabacano spoken by Chinese-Filipinos of Manila, particularly in Ermita) to distinguish it from the Spanish language spoken by the peninsulares, insulares, mestizos, or the elite class called the ilustrados.
This common name has evolved into a word of its own in different spellings with no negative connotation, but to simply mean as the name of the language with that distinct Spanish flavour.
However, most of its earlier speakers were born of mixed parentage Chinese migrants and Spanish and Latin American soldiers and civil servants during the Spanish colonial period. ORIGIN OF CHAVACANO IN CAVITE
The Merdicas were Catholic natives of the islands of Ternate and Tidore of the Moluccas, converted during the Portuguese occupation of the islands by Jesuit missionaries.
The islands were later captured by the Spanish who vied for their control with the Dutch. In 1663, the Spanish garrison in Ternate were forced to pull out to defend Manila against an impending invasion by the Chinese pirate Koxinga
A number of Merdicas volunteered to help, eventually being resettled in a sandbar near the mouth of the Maragondon river known as the Barra de Maragondon and Tanza, Cavite, Manila.
The invasion did not occur as Koxinga fell ill and died. The Merdicas community eventually integrated into the local population.
Today, the place is called Ternate after the island of Ternate in the Moluccas, and the descendants of the Merdicas continue to use their Spanish creole with Portuguese influence which came to be known as Caviteรฑo or Ternateรฑo Chavacano.
INTERESTING FACTS:
It also derived from the word chavacano which was coined by the people of Zamboanga. Six different dialects have developed:
Zamboangueรฑo in Zamboanga City
Davaoeรฑo Zamboangueรฑo
Castellano Abakay in Davao City
Ternateรฑo in Ternate, Cavite
Caviteรฑo in Cavite City
Cotabateรฑo in Cotabato City
Ermiteรฑo in Ermita.
-The Chavacano language is the only Spanish-based creole in Asia.
-It has survived for more than 400 years.
-One of the oldest creole languages in the world.
-It is the only language to have developed in the Philippines (a member of Philippine languages) which does not belong to the family of Austronesian languages, although it shows a characteristic common to the sub-classification of Malayo-Polynesian languages, the reduplication.
-Zamboangueรฑo Chavacano emanated from Caviteรฑo Chavacano as evidenced by prominent Zamboangueรฑo families who descended from Spanish Army officers.
-Most of what appears to be Cebuano words in Zamboangueรฑo Chavacano are actually Ilonggo.
-Zamboangueรฑos usually, though not always, spell the name of the language as Chavacano to refer to their language or even to themselves as Chavacanos, and they spell the word as Chabacano referring to the original Spanish meaning of the word or as Chabacano referring also to the language itself.
-Caviteรฑos, Ternateรฑos, and Ermitaรฑos spell the word as it is spelled originally in the Spanish language as Chabacano.
There are also other alternative names and spellings for this language depending on the dialects:
-Zamboangueรฑos-Chavacano, or Zamboangenio.
-Caviteรฑo is also known as Caviten, Linguaje di Niso.
-Ermitaรฑo is also known as Ermiteรฑo.
-Ternateรฑo Chabacano, Bahra, or Linguaje di Bahra.
-Davaoeรฑo is also Davaweรฑo, Davawenyo, Davawenyo Zamboangenyo, Castellano Abakay, or Davao Chabacano/Chavacano. Cotabateรฑo is also known as Cotabato Chabacano/Chavacano.
Cavite’s historical beginnings date back to a glorious
past. Cavite of the grand old days was paragon of grandeur and power. Cavite
proper was originally an island whose deep waters provided favorable and
anchorage for ocean going vessels. Even before the coming of the Spaniards, Chinese
junks and other foreign ships traded with the 6,000 Malays who landed on Cavite’s
shores in 1212 A.D. and formed a community complete with its own religion and
customs.
Built in 1571 by the Spaniards, Cavite proper had
become a thriving town in the seventeenth century. Initially the puerto was a
little Spanish walled community with eight churches, six schoolhouses,
centuries-old-tile-roofed stone houses, narrow cobbled streets, a port and
shore walls that curtained the Intramuros from Manila Bay. Moreover, there were
spacious plazas and a navy yard. The Puerto had become the oriental terminal of
the fabled galleon line to Acapulco. Later, hospitals, US submarine base, ship
lines, theaters, train line, bus lines and movie houses were added.
In 1602, the Spaniards built Porta Vaga, a 20 foot
high fort that guarded the entrance to the Spanish city. Earlier, the massive
walls if San Felipe were erected in 1585 to protect the navy yard against
incursions by Moro pirates and Dutch invaders. The city was officially baptized
Cavite in 1614 when it was established as a politico-military district and capital
of Cavite province. The Isthmus del Rosario linked Cavite with the mainland.
Source:Cavite: Culture e Historia
Edited by: Teresita P. Unabia
Victor Immanuel R. Cuarto
Calle del Arsenal, the main street in Cavite Nuevo, Cavite Province. Photo was taken in 1897.
Recent findings may give credence to ca. 1667 as her date of arrival. The lyrics of the hymn "Reina de Cavite" was taken from a poem entitled "Himno a la Virgen de Cavite". This was written by the Jesuit Fr. Tomas de Andrade, a former rector of the Colegio de Cavite. He was assigned in Cavite between 1669-1689. We may assume that he wrote this poem during his stay in Cavite. There must have been a strong devotion to the Virgen de Cavite so that by his time, poetic lines were written in Her honor.
Video c/o: Luz De Filipinas
And this is the Reina de Cavite video story created by no less than Fr. Dominador Medina.
But for the Province of Cavite, the Philippines would not have
become a republic.” This, rather sweeping, if not arrogant statement would no
doubt infuriate more than a few of today’s historians. But arrogance could
certainly be applied to Aguinaldo’s spectacular menu devised for the meal to
celebrate the proclamation of the republic. It was, as history tells us written
in French the language of food, elegance and diplomacy.Without a doubt, the
Philippines in 1898 wished to become a part of the community of nations by
showing the world that we were a refined and enlightened people and along with
self-governance, ready to embrace the post-colonial era.
Cavite’s strategic geographical location played a vital role
in the country’s history, and its design helped shape its culinary destiny.
Cavite’s topography is divided into three distinctive features: the coastal
area on the West North-west fronting Manila Bay and the west Philippine Sea;
the highlands and rolling hills in the East South-east terminating in the
Tagaytay ridge; and the fertile central plains that were previously friar lands
or haciendas providing produce for and hence serving as the food basket for the
capital, Manila.
Caviteรฑo cooking as in most Tagalog provinces appears
deceptively simple. But look deeper and an astonishing culinary revelation can
be found in the markets and kitchens of Cavite. During a fiesta in any of its
town, kare-kare, morcon and menudo glowing with hues of bright vermilion
extracted from achuete (annatto) seeds, is invariably served. But there’s more
to this generic offering than meets the eye, for the true essence of Caviteรฑo
cuisine is a very personal matter. Cherished recipes only appear on the dining
table during close family affairs such as wakes and Easter and Christmas
holidays.
In other provinces, there’s a great divide between pagkaing
pang mahirap (food for the poor) and pagkaing pang mayaman (food for the rich).
In Cavite, the dichotomy is between pagkaing pambahay (food for home) and pagkaing
pambisita (food for guests) as home-cooked meals are not normally shared with
guests or strangers. This dichotomy is even more evident in Cavite City
during the fiesta of the city’s patron saint Nuestra Seรฑora dela Soledad de
Porta Vaga. Every second Sunday of November, the food served is clearly for guests, but as the celebrations continue on the thirds Sunday, the food is
exclusively for Caviteรฑos.
The usual palengke (market) selection of tamales, quesillo,
and bibingkoy is considered by residents as everyday fare, but visitors regard
them as specialty threads. Because of their limited shelf life, these local
market fares are rarely offered outside the province.
Sadly with the exception perhaps of such gastronomic
outposts as Josephine’s in Kawit and a handful of fine dining restaurants and
eateries found along the Tagaytay ridge, the food culture of Cavite is
virtually unknown to the outside world, especially when compared to the
popularity of the regional cuisines of Pampanga, Negros, Bulacan and Bicol.
For all intents ad purposes the cooking of Cavite is not
much under-rated as it is unrated.This the type of cooking that is patronized
by locals, who would partake of them in traditional eateries but would much
prefer to cook them at home.
That said, Cavite’s potential as a culinary destination is
undeniable especially given its proximity to Metro Manila. Its nearest town is a
mere 18 kilometers from the southern tip of Roxas Boulevard via Cavitex the
causeway that connects the Coastal Road.
The province cuisine is confluence hewn by generations of
Spanish, Basques, Mexicans, Fujian Chinese and Filipinos and not forgetting of
course the Mardicas. The latter is a Malay Tribe in Ternate whose roots comes
from a small Spanish colony in the spice island of Moluccas ( now part of
Indonesia) who volunteered to go to Cavite to support the Spanish against the
threat of invasion by the pirate Coxinga (Limahong). When the Mardicas settled
on the Bahra de Marogondon now known as the town of Ternate, the brought with
them a way of life that eventually brought about the evolution of Cavite’s
language and cuisine.
This creole influence is still evident amongst the older
inhabitants of Cavite City, who with their insular upbringing might still refer
to the people in neighboring towns as tagalabas (outsiders). This harks back to
as far as 1595, when the forts of San Felipe and Porta Vaga (the Chabacano word
for “new gate”) were constructed to cloister the Caviteรฑos apart from the
Tagalogs who lived outside the walls. While also preferring to be known as
Caviteรฑo a dentro (from the inside) as opposed to a fuera or outside, they also
use their fracture Tagalog as a status symbol, fostering the adoption of
Chabacano as the lingua franca.
Article written by: Mr. Ige Ramos Posted with PERMISSION
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