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BOA-BOAHAN ALINSANGAN FESTIVAL

May 4, 2008

Nabua, Camarines Sur

May 1

A colorful cultural festival of pagan origin. Derived from the dialect, alinsangan, a word that describes the characteristics of the people living in the early settlements. It is a festival showing fertility and thanksgiving. Fertility, because Boa was taken from the young embryo of the coconut and thanksgiving for it was their only source of food after the ravage of floodwaters.