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Kawit
Municipality in Cavite, Philippines

Kawit

Kawit, officially the Municipality of Kawit, is an urban municipality in the province of Cavite, Philippines.

Plan a trip to Kawit→From Olongapo

According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 123,631 people.

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Getting to Kawit

Kawit is the terminus of the Manila-Cavite Expressway aka Coastal Road or CAVITEX. The ramp leads immediately to the chronically snarled Zeus Junction, which connects Binakayan Diversion Road, Tirona Highway and Antero Soriano Highway (Centennial Road) in Binakayan.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Aguinaldo Shrine
  2. 02
    Baldomero Aguinaldo Shrine
Do

Things to do

Maytinis Festival — An original Kawit tradition that takes place every Christmas Eve, a dramatic retelling of the Virgin Mary and Joseph's search in Bethlehem for a place to stay called "Panunuluyan". This reenactment happens on the streets of Kawit with different floats depicting different biblical scenes from Adam and Eve up to Mary and Joseph.

How locals move

Getting around Kawit the local way

Share-taxi routes mapped nearby
  • Jeepney Route: SM Molino → WalterMart Dasmariñas · Magnificat Transport Cooperative
  • Jeepney Route: WalterMart Dasmariñas → SM Molino · Magnificat Transport Cooperative
  • IA UV Express: Alabang Town Center → Imus Toll Bridge
  • Bacoor-PITX Shanhai UV Express: Bacoor → PITX · Shanhai Transport Inc.
  • C85 Lawton–Paliparan Site UV Express
  • C85 Paliparan Site–Park N' Ride Lawton UV Express (inbound)

OpenStreetMap contributors.

  • Get inThere is also a similar jeepney service running from Zapote to Binakayan.

From Wikivoyage: Kawit, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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