LUBI-LUBI (COCONUT) FESTIVAL
August 15 | Calubian, Leyte
The humble coconut tree gets its day in the spotlight as the town celebrates its Lubi-Lubi Festival.
Legend has it that the numerous coconut trees now standing in Calubian, Leyte, all came from just one nut found floating in a river by an early inhabitant. The town now symbolizes the coconut industry in Eastern Visayas , the country’s third largest coconut producing region. Its name is derived from “lubi” - local for coconut, and so Calubian means abundance of coconuts .
Calubian’s less than 30,000 people always pay homage to the “tree of life” during their fiesta in the middle of August. The annual Lubi-lubi dance festival extols the many uses of the coconut parts as costumes, props, and accessories. The dance is also in homage to the town’s patron saints, Our Lady of Fatima and St. Roque.
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