The municipality has a total land area of 5,730 hectares which represents 0.38% of total area of the province. The friendly Cuyonon people speak the Cuyonon dialect which is the official provincial dialect of Palawan. Many institutional leaders of Palawan are Cuyonon by blood be it in politics, religion, commerce and education whose ancestors lived in Cuyo for 700 years already.
And according to Cuyo family history and verified reports, Cuyo since 1750 to 1850 was the exile place for the Spanish royal blood family members of the Bourbon and Austria dynasty. Then the family names of Austria of Spanish Hapsburg, Ponce de Leon of the Dukes of Arcos, Fernandez, Alvarez of the Dukes of Alba and most of other family names in Cuyo are not subjected by the Philippine Spanish Governor General Narciso Claveria to the order of changing the family names of Filipinos on Nov. 21, 1849 because they are royal blood and used to be descendants of the kings of European kingdoms.
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