The main industries and the main life
living of people in the Camotes
Island are Farming,
fishing and tourism. They can plant corn and rice, breeding or rising animals
like pigs, chicken and cattle. They also make a hollow blocks, furniture and
they also offer their own soap-making.
In tourism people can introduce many
attractions into the tourist like their underground resorts, caves and mangrove
plantation.
The word Camotes is Mexican for sweet
potatoes, the Camotes name is from the popular story that is centuries ago when
the Spaniards first arrived in the island and they encounter some native
farming villager, and ask them what is the name of the island. The villagers
thought that the Spaniards are asking what kind of root crops they were putting
in their basket and replied Camote. Therefore the island was called Camotes Island.
Camotes Island is also known as “The Lost
Horizon in the South” because of its pure beauty, rich in cultures and
heritage, hospitality and smiling faces of the people around Camotes. They also
called Camotes Island
as “Island of Imagination” because of its abundance of
natural resources and attractions and far from the destructive touch of the
modern living.
Camotes is also known of their delicacy the
marinated tilapia.
The island of Pacijan
and Poro are connected by a paved road that called a causeway that
approximately at 1.5 km long. This causeway is constructed by the people of San Francisco during the
Spanish era.
The Ponson is separated by the Camotes Sea that lying about four kilometers
northeast of Poro.
Tulang is located of the northern tip of
Pacijan.
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