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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 137 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OPON  , a

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town of the
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province of
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Cebu, Philippine Islands, on the small
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island of Mactan (
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area about 45 sq. m.), which is separated from the island of Cebu by a channel only about / m. wide . Pop (1903), after the
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annexation of
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Cordova and
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Santa
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Rosa, 20,166 . There are
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forty-four barrios, or villages, in the town, and three of these had in 1903 more than moo inhabitants each . The
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language is Visayan: Opon is a
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shipping and commercial suburb of Cebu
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city, the
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harbour of which is sheltered by Mactan Island . The town has large groves of coco-
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nut trees, and its
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principal
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industries are the cultivation of
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Indian
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corn and maguey and fishing . In the N.E.
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part of the town is a
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monument to
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Magellan, who discovered the Philippines in
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March 1521, and was slain here by the natives
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late in the following
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month .

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