CAVITE, a municipality (with administration centre and 11 barrios or districts), and capital of the province of Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, on a forked tongue of land in Manila bay, 8 m. S. of Manila. Pop. (1918) 22,169, of whom 12,108 were males and 34o whites. The harbour is one of the best in the Philippines and for this reason and because of its proximity to Manila, Cavite is the principal naval base and coaling station of the U.S. fleet in Asiatic waters, the coaling docks being located in the northern part of the municipality, called Sangley Point. There are other extensive docks. Here also are located the navy radio station and the arsenal. The municipality is connected with Manila by a railway which follows the contours of Manila bay. The region in the vicinity is of volcanic origin and the soil is very fertile. The chief products are abaca, which is mainly exported to Japan, rice, sugar, copra, cacao, coffee and corn. In 1918 it had five manu facturing establishments with output valued at 103,600 pesos; and 15 schools of which 8 were public. It was an old native town and was early occupied by the Spaniards. The Dutch bombarded it in 1647. Remains of the old fortifications are still to be seen. One of the four penitentiaries established during the Spanish regime was in Cavite. A military insurrection broke out here in 1872. The municipality was almost destroyed by an earthquake in 1880. It was a centre of the revolt directed against Spain in the 19th century and was the scene in 1896 of the execution of 13 political prisoners to whom a monument was erected in 1906. It was captured from the Spanish by Commodore George Dewey in May 1898. In the neighbouring municipality of Cavite Viejo is the home of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, leader of the insurrec tion against the United States. The language spoken is Tagalog.