Kawit

Kawit is an urban municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines, with a population of 123,631 at the 2024 census, at a density of about 5,400 people per square kilometre. Formerly known as Cavite el Viejo, it is the birthplace of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first President of the Philippines, and the Aguinaldo home, where independence from Spain was declared on 12 June 1898, is now the Aguinaldo Shrine. The name comes from the Tagalog word kawit or kalawit, a hook, which suggests the town's place at the base of a hook-shaped shoreline along Manila Bay reaching to the tip of Cavite City. The source says it was established as a town in 1587 or, as recognised by law, on 1 August 1600. After the Philippine Revolution the Philippine Independent Church built a shrine to Saint Michael the Archangel in the barrio of Binakayan in 1902.