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Zamboanga City is a city known as "Ciudad de Flores" or City of Flowers in the Mindanao region of the Philippines. The Chavacano language (popularly known as Zamboangueño Chavacano, based on 80% Spanish and 20% Italian, Portuguese, Quechua, Taino, Mexican-Indian, Nauhtl, Tagalog, Ilonggo, Bisaya and other Philippine languages) made Zamboanga "Asia's Latin Region." This is also due to the same traditions with Spain, particularly Our Lady of the Pilar (which is also Spain's Patroness).

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Published at 2020-09-12 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary, Travel

Tags: Zamboanga

Zamboanga City: What You Should Know & Travel Tips

The laconic escort wearing an orange vest marked Policia tucks the Baby Armalite between his legs. Using a camera retrieved from his pocket instead to target his subject, he aims the screen high in the air to capture presumably the approaching island of Santa Cruz. Yet he calls my attention, shouting through the waves, “Ma’am, tingin dito.”, to face the screen as he takes our “selfwe”, the clicks of his camera battling with the roar of the motorboat.

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Published at 2018-03-04 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Travel

Tags: Tourism, Zamboanga, archipelago

Zamboangueño

Most of the Zamboangueño Chavacanos are in Zamboanga City, but there are pockets of them in the middle and southernmost tip of the Zamboanga peninsula; and Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi in Western Mindanao.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Basilan, Sulu, Zamboanga, Zamboanga

Zamboangueño

Most of the Zamboangueño Chavacanos are in Zamboanga City, but there are pockets of them in the middle and southernmost tip of the Zamboanga peninsula; and Basilan, Sulu, and Tawi-Tawi in Western Mindanao.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Basilan, Sulu, Zamboanga, Zamboanga

Ternateño

Chavacano is a Spanish-based creole language and known in linguistics as Philippine Creole Spanish. Spaniards who settled in the Philippines intermingled with the natives and even married Filipinas. To be able to communicate, both sides had to learn each other’s languages.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Cavite, Cotabato, Zamboanga

Subanen, Western

The language of the Western Subanen in the Zamboanga peninsula is also called Siocon. They are found in the Zamboanga peninsula of Mindanao, this language is known to others as Siocon.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Subanen, Western, Zamboanga

Subanen, Northern

Northern Subanen also known as Tuboy Subanen are concentrated in Tuboy, Sergio Osmena, and Mutia in Zamboanga del Norte. There are also some northern Subanen speakers residing in Salog, Misamis Oriental.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Northern, Subanen, Zamboanga

Subanen, Lapuyan

The Lapuyan Subanen group lives in Lapuyan, a subpeninsula of Zamboanga del Sur.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Subanen, Zamboanga

Subanen, Kolibugan

The Kolibugan Subanen inhabit the Zamboanga Peninsula, southern Zamboanga del Norte, and some parts of Zamboanga del Sur. Their language is similar to that of the Western Subanen but with some grammatical differences.

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

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Subanen, Central

Subanen (also, Subanon and Subanun). It is said that when the Muslims arrived in Zamboanga and other parts of Mindanao, the original Indonesian settlers were pushed back from the coastal areas to the river. Their name, Subanen, comes from suba (river), and means “river people.”

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Published at 2018-03-02 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Communities, Culture, Documentary

Tags: Central, Subanen, Zamboanga

Zamboanga Hermosa: A Festival of Faith in Zamboanga City

It all started with my desire to see a vinta, a traditional paddleboat with multicolored sails. The most recognizable cultural icon of Zamboanga City often seen in postcards, I assumed it was an everyday sight, but after having visited the city a few times I realized that one could only see it on special occasions, most especially during the Zamboanga Hermosa Festival.

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Published at 2018-02-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary, Entertainment

Tags: Festival, Hermosa, Zamboanga

Hermosa Festival

The Hermosa Festival, also known as Zamboanga La Hermosa Festival, popularly known as Fiesta Pilar, is a month-long festival held each year in the city of Zamboanga, the city center of Zamboanga Peninsula Region in the Philippines. It is one of the oldest festivals in the country and the most awaited event in the region.

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Published at 2018-02-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Culture, Documentary, Entertainment

Tags: Festival, Hermosa, Zamboanga

The Mount Malindang National Park: Nature's Treasure Trove

Having 15 major catchment basins or watersheds, the Mount Malindang National Park serves as the lifeblood of the province of Misamis Occidental in Mindanao, Philippines, sustaining the economic life of several municipalities, specifically those that border the provinces of Zamboanga del Norte and Zamboanga del Sur.

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Published at 2018-01-21 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary, Fauna and flora, Leisure, Travel

Tags: Malindang, Mindanao, Zamboanga

The Badjao Sea People of Zamboanga

ZAMBOANGA CITY, Philippines – “We want to go, but there's no sea there,” said Rufaida Marrudin as she held her grandson inside her makeshift shelter, a house on stilts on the shoreline of Cawa-Cawa Boulevard.

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Published at 2017-05-22 by Puerto Parrot

Categories : Documentary, Stories

Tags: Badjao, Zamboanga