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Punta

Punta is an Afro-indigenous dance and cultural music of the Belizean, Guatemalan, Honduran and Nicaraguan Garífuna people, originating from the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Punta
Punta · Diego Delso
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Punta is an Afro-indigenous dance and cultural music of the Belizean, Guatemalan, Honduran and Nicaraguan Garífuna people, originating from the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. It has African and Arawak elements which are also the characteristics of the Garífuna language. It is also known as banguity or bunda.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Punta

Airports
Laguindingan (CGY), 106 km · Bohol-Panglao (TAG), 184 km · Mactan Cebu (CEB), 209 km
  • Laguindingan → Punta
    109 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · ₱405–540
  • Panglao → Punta
    187 km · quickest by road, 11h 55m · ₱610–820
  • Cebu City/Lapu-Lapu City → Punta
    209 km · quickest by ferry, 12h 35m · ₱945–3,345
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No local-transport research exists yet for Punta

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Punta. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SiargaoPH

    10 ways of moving, 33 sources

    125 km
  2. 02
    Tagbilaran and BoholPH

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    179 km
  3. 03
    SiquijorPH

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    193 km
  4. 04
    Leyte IslandPH

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    208 km
  5. 05
    DumaguetePH

    9 ways of moving, 46 sources

    226 km

If you know how people move in Punta – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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Next door to Punta

Punta is 23 km from Butuan, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.