Capul
Also known as Municipality of Capul
Capul, officially the Municipality of Capul (; ; ), is an island municipality in the province of Northern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 12,127 people.
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- USS Essex passes Capul Island while passing through the San Bernardino Strait
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- Etymology
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- Economy
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Capul, officially the Municipality of Capul (; ; ), is an island municipality in the province of Northern Samar, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 12,127 people.
The natives of Capul are known as the Abaknon or the Capuleño people. It is the only town in the province of Northern Samar with a distinct language, Inabaknon (also known as Capuleño, Abaknon Sama, or Capul Sinama), instead of Waray, the native language spoken by the locals of Samar island. Inabaknon is unique in it being only distantly related to the languages spoken in the entire Visayas and Luzon regions. Instead, it is classified by linguists as a Sama-Bajaw language.