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Pinabacdao, officially the Municipality of Pinabacdao (; ; ) is a fourth class municipality in the province of Samar, Philippines. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 16,208.〔 It lies at the southwest central coast of Samar Island and crossed along by the Pan-Philippine Highway. Pinabacdao is bordered to the north by the municipality of Calbiga; to the east by the capital city of Borongan in the province of Eastern Samar; to the west by the municipality of Villareal and Villareal Bay; and to the south by the municipalities of Santa Rita and Basey. It is considered as the center of rice production in the province of Samar. The home of Mayaw-Mayaw Festival, an ethnic and dance festival celebrated every May 10 of each year. Mayaw-Mayaw Festival won second runner-up in the festival dance competition and first prize winner in the float design competition during the 2015 Aliwan Fiesta which was held on April 23–25 in the cities of Manila and Pasay. ==Etymology== The term ''"Pinabácdao"'' or ''"Pinabakdaw"'' is a Waray Sinamar-Lineyte dialect that means ''"asked to stand"'' in English Language or simply ''"pinatayó"'' in Filipino Language. But in the book ''Atlas de Filipinas'' by José María Algué, SJ - a Spanish-Roman Catholic priest and meteorologist in the observatory of Manila published in 1899 (In 1900 published in English: (''Atlas of the Philippine Islands'' ) by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey ''now'' ''U.S. National Geodetic Survey''); Pinabacdao was cited as ''Pinabágdao'' and listed as a ''pueblo'' or town in the former island province of Samar. Due to lack of official and authenticated historical accounts pertaining to the origin of the town's name, the municipal government is only relying on folktales which was handed from prominent ancestors to their eager descendants. Folktales revealed that the town of Pinabacdao got its present name by the time when the Philippines was still under the Spanish colonial era; the provincial governor of Samar asked ''Capitan'' Doquerez (believed to be the founder and first mayor of Pinabacdao) as to what punishment he would impose to those who violated any rule or law. Doquerez insisted that he will not impose fines and imprisonment, instead they will be punished by asking them to ''"bakdaw"'' or stand on an ant colony. The Spanish governor was then amused and concluded that since the punishment or ''"pena"'' in Spanish language is to ''"bakdaw"'' or stand the town deserves to be called ''"Pena-bakdaw"'' ''(respelled as Pinabacdao)''. Another folktale or legend surrounding the town suggests that Pinabacdao's name was derived from miscommunication. These was the time when according to the folktale during the early years of settlement, officers from the Samar provincial government (probably on a mapping, census or exploratory survey) passed along the newly organized town and saw a man tied on a pole, standing on an ant colony. The Spanish officers asked one of the townsmen as to what is the name of the place. The townsman, not understanding the question in Spanish and thinking that the officer was pertaining to the tied man standing on ant colony immediately replied in Waray-waray dialect - ''"Pinabakdaw"'' or simply "asked to stand". This story was believed to be the reason why the bureaucrats recorded the name of the town as ''Pinabacdao''. In terms of official government record, the town is officially known as Pinabacdao by virtue of Executive Order No. 2 signed by president Manuel A. Roxas on July 8, 1946 and took effect on July 16, 1946. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Executive Order No. 02, s.1946 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pinabacdao, Samar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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