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Encyclopedia Britannica



OPON

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 137 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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