Cebu Island, approximately 200 km, long and 40 km wide is in the center of the Visayas. The capital Cebu City is the second largest town with approximately 600,000 Cebuanos living there. Several fine beach resorts are located in front of Cebu City on Mactan Island. Cebu is famous for its mangoes. Toledo City is where Atlas Consolidated Mining & Dev. Corp the largest copper producer in Asia is situated.
Cebu City’s Colon Street is said to be the oldest street in the Philippines. Today no original Spanish houses can be seen, only big cinemas are the sight of dried squid being grilled at some corners. The bakeries are famous for their hot pan de sal (bread).
In the Philippines, Cebu city has the strongest Chinese influence with some 1000,000 of its population belonging to Chinese ancestry.
Economic growth of Cebu Island was 20 percent in 1989, and therefore much higher than in the rest of the Philippines.
While no rattan grows in Cebu, it is producing some 70% of the rattan furniture being exported.
Fashion accessories, cut-flowers, shell crafts, stone craft and guitars are other typical export products. Exporters require high quality so a bargain hunter might find export overruns of high quality at reasonable prices. Every third Sunday of January the noisy, colorful Sinulog Fiesta is celebrated with a lot of smiles.
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