Poro, Cebu
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Poro, officially the Municipality of Poro (Template:Langx; Template:Langx), is a municipality in the province of Cebu, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 26,232 people.Template:PH census
The patronal feast of Poro is celebrated on the third Friday of January, in honour of the Santo Niño de Cebu.
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Geography
Poro is bordered to the north by the province of Leyte across the Camotes Sea; to the west by Pacijan Island, where the town of San Francisco is located; to the east by the town of Tudela; and to the south by the Camotes Sea.
Poro, along with the municipality of Tudela, is located on Poro Island of the Camotes Islands.
Barangays
Poro is politically subdivided into 17 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
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Climate
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Demographics
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Etymology and languages
The town's name is derived from the Waray-Waray word puro meaning "island". This how Camotes Island is called by Warays and Leyteños. Before the first municipality to be established in Camotes, puro meant the name of all the islands.
Aside from Cebuano, Waray, Tagalog, and English, the townsfolk also speak the local Porohanon language. Also known as Camotes Visayan, the language is mutually intelligible with other Visayan languages (e.g. Cebuano) spoken in the rest of the Camotes Islands, Cebu, other parts of the Visayas, and Northern Mindanao.
The town is home to the Porohanon language, one of the most endangered languages in the Visayas. The language is only used in the Poro islands. The language is classified as distinct from Cebuano by the Komisyon ng Wikang Filipino and is vital to the culture and arts of the Porohanon people. Porohanon is distinguished by the way the locals substitute /Template:IPA link/ sounds with /Template:IPA link/, for instance Cebuano maayong buntag ("good morning") vocalised as maazong buntag in Porohanon. (Possibly occasions too a handover from the yeísmo phenomenon in Spanish.) Other dialectical variations include the Porohanon ara dira instead of the standard Cebuano na-a diha.
Economy
References
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Further reading
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External links
- [[[:Template:NSCB detail]] Philippine Standard Geographic Code]
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