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When: 02/01/2012 - 02/28/2012
Location: Carmona, Cavite
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CARMONA, Cavite — This town is celebrating its 153rd founding anniversary with the traditional week-long Sorteo (Lottery) Festival.Almost A total of 9,738 residents are taking part in the Sorteo Festival. Sorteo is a Spanish word which means raffle or draw. The original event gave qualified town folk a chance to win the right to cultivate farmlands rent-free for three years.
Loyola, citing history, said the Sorteo was first done in the town in 1861 or four years after Carmona, then called Barrio Latag, was separated from its mother town of Silang on February 20, 1857, through a decree approved by the Spanish monarch.
