page_title: Guinayangan
section_title: Fiesta
hierarchical_section_title: Guinayangan / Fiesta
caption_attribution_description: English: Town Hall of Guinayangan, Quezon
context_page_description: Guinayangan, officially the Municipality of Guinayangan, is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Quezon, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 45,155 people.
  Guinayangan came from a native word for cane "gayang", they "copied"---ginaya and adopted the name to become "ginayangan" or what is now known as "Guinayangan". Its people pronounce it "Ginyangan" omitting the "a" sound.
  The municipality is home to the Maulawin Spring Protected Landscape and the critically endangered Inagta Lopez, a dialect of the critically endangered Inagta Alabat language, who has - at most - 30 speakers left in the world.
context_section_description: When the month of June comes, the people of Guinayangan, Quezon prepare for the annual celebration of Gayang Festival, wherein the coconut tree and the banana is the main attraction of the festivities. The festival is highlighted by a street dancing competition participated by the residents of different barangays, as well as by elementary and high school students.
  In the later part of 2000, the very first Seafoods Festival was held in the town.  However, it was replaced by Gayang Festival in the succeeding years to give importance to the town's history.
caption: Municipal Hall
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