Cuyunon people

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Cuyonon

Total population
243,384
Regions with significant populations
Philippines: Palawan
Languages
Cuyonon, Hiligaynon, Filipino
Religion
Roman Catholic
Related ethnic groups
other Filipino peoples, other Austronesian peoples

Cuyonon refers to an ethnic group populating the Cuyo Islands, along with northern and central Palawan. The Cuyonons hail originally from Cuyo and the surrounding Cuyo Islands, a group of islands and islets in the northern Sulu Sea, to the north east of Palawan. They are considered an elite class among the hierarchy of native Palaweños. They are part of the wider Visayan ethnolinguistic group, who constitute the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group.