The Regada Annual Water Festival in Cavite City is fast approaching. The special date is on June 24, Wednesday. To bad for those students and employees outside Cavite City because they can't attend on the celebration, unless, they have a reason (or make a wild, strong reason) to leave their class, offices and workplace for that particular date.

Regada is a water festival held primarily at Cavite City every June 24th of the year. That date is also the date of the celebration of San Juan Bautista festivity. Regada started in 1996 during the tenure of the Mayor Tim Encarnacion. This week-long celebration is a mirror of Cavite City’s culture and tradition, combined with fun and merryment.

More and more people add up to the local crowd, attending this once a year occasion. In fact, due to its ever growing popularity, celebrities and known actors and actresses take part in the event, even noontime variety shows are held in the city during the affair. These people experience not only the festive mood but the ecological implication of the event and the spiritual bonding which unity brought them together as the reason the festival is successful year after year.



The party-loving people of Cavite City gets busy every year during the second week of June in the elaborate preparation of the annual Cavite City Water Festival, more popularly known as Regada. Regada is derived from Spanish word "regar" from the Chavakano speaking Cavitenios, Regada literally means “to sprinkle” or “to douse with water”. Nowadays, Regada has been a yearly tradition to celebrate the Cavite City Water Festival more popularly known as "REGADA" every June. The annual tourism oriented festival has evolved into a combined environmental, religious and cultural activity. More so, the month of June is significant in Cavite City's history for its lasting contribution to Philippine independence and history.

Regada, will be staged in the one kilometer stretch along P. Burgos Avenue. The main thoroughfare will be rigged with sprinklers and mobile sound system to transform P. Burgos Avenue into what could be the biggest wet party in the country.

Students and townfolks will fill the avenue to participate in the wet street dancing dubbed as "Basayawan sa Kalye". The participants will interpret the essence of the yearly water festival through colorful costumes and body movements and dance to the music provided by the giant mobile sound systems installed along P. Burgos Avenue.

The festival culminates with the holding of Caracol ni San Juan Bautista at around 11 o'clock in the moring, a fitting climax to the festival's origin in honor of St. John the Baptist in which people celebrate for the blessing by joining the "Paulan".

All in all, Regada annual festival in Cavite City is truly one of its kind. This event deserves a place to the list of Cavite's Pride and Finest. So set the date up, and come and join the celebration this June 24th. It will be a full of fun, enjoyment, excitement and lots of wet and wild activities.

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