Place:Guinayangan, Quezon, CALABARZON, Philippines

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NameGuinayangan
TypeMunicipality
Coordinates13.9°N 122.45°E
Located inQuezon, CALABARZON, Philippines
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Guinayangan, officially the Municipality of Guinayangan, is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,045 people.

Guinayangan came from a native word for cane "gayang", they "copied"---ginaya and adopted the name to become "ginayangan" or what is now known as "Guinayangan". Its people pronounce it "Ginyangan" omitting the "a" sound.

The municipality is home to the Maulawin Spring Protected Landscape and the critically endangered Inagta Lopez, a dialect of the critically endangered Inagta Alabat language, which has - at most - 30 speakers left in the world.

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