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Manggahan Festival

The Manggahan Festival is an annual festival held in May in Guimaras, Philippines to celebrate the province's mango harvest. During the festival, the streets are decorated with mango-themed decorations and costumes, and there are parades and competitions centered around mangoes.

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Manggahan Festival

The Manggahan Festival is an annual festival held in May in Guimaras, Philippines to celebrate the province's mango harvest. During the festival, the streets are decorated with mango-themed decorations and costumes, and there are parades and competitions centered around mangoes.

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Manggahan Festival

History
Manggahan Festival comes from the word mangga, which means mango. The
Manggahan Festival is an annual festival held in May, which is the peak season for
mangoes in Guimaras. Furthermore, it also commemorates the provincehood of
Guimaras because the feast culminates on the exact day that the province was
declared as an independent one, and no longer a sub-province of Iloilo. The first
Manggahan Festival was held on May 22, 1993, as a founding anniversary. The
festival celebrates the abundance of mangoes in the province and their
importance to the local economy.
The Props and Costume
At the Manggahan Festival, the streets are filled with mango-shaped, yellow-
orange tricycles.
Traditional Visayan costume based on pleasant clothing from the turn-of-the-
century. The women wear a skirt made off silk cotton embellished with natural
buri fibers and mango-shaped sliced foams, wrapped with hablon de patadyong, a
famous fabric weaved in Miag-ao, Iloilo. The young men wear costumes
reminiscent of Mexican peasants with straw sombrero hats with their colored
blousy shirts worn over pajama style pants. Other materials used were earth-
colored wood beads, twigs, silk cotton, and rubber sole.
How to celebrate
At the Manggahan Festival, the streets are filled with mango-shaped, yellow-
orange tricycles. Performers wielding mango-like props dance during the mango-
themed parade. Competitive athletes register for sporting events such as the
Amazing Guimarace, the Tour de Guimaras, and a Motocross Challenge. For the
true fruit lover, there’s the “Mango Eat All You Can”: For only 150 Philippine
pesos, participants enter a space filled with a wealth of mango treats. For 30
minutes, it’s a free-for-all buffet.

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