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CAVITE, chartered city and seaport of the northern Philippines, in Cavite Province. Cavite is located on Luzon Island, on Manila Bay, near Manila. The city has a fine harbor and is encircled by walls. The principal articles of trade include corn, rice, sugar, coffee, cacao, copra, bananas, and Manila hemp. On a narrow neck of land extending east into the bay are the remains of fortifications dating from Spanish colonial times and a former United States naval facility. Under Spanish rule Cavite was a naval base and following its capture by the American admiral George Dewey in 1898, during the Spanish-American War, it became the principal base of the U.S. Asian Fleet. The Japanese captured Cavite in December 1941, during World War II, and held it until 1945. Population (1990) 92,000.

CHAVACANO
Chavacano the dialect mostly spoken by majority of the Caviteños that lived in the city of Cavite, whose origin has begun during the arrival of the first Spaniards three centuries ago. Today very few Caviteños in the city of Cavite speak the Chavacano dialect and perhaps it will come to cease of its existence or completely dissapppear in the near future.

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