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7 unusual facts about Chamorro


Anthony Marais

In 1991, while living on Guam, he played bass guitar for Chamorro artist Maria Yatar.

Chamorro

Chamorro Time Zone, formerly the Guam Time Zone, the time zone in which Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands are situated.

Chamorro people, the indigenous people of the Marianas Islands in the Western Pacific

Chamorro language, an Austronesian language spoken on Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands

Finadene

Finadene (also fina dene) is a salty, spicy, sour all-purpose condiment used in Chamorro cuisine.

San Vitores Martyrdom Site

It is an important site in marking where Father Diego Luis de San Vitores was killed, and for association with the Chamorro wars against the imposition of Catholic Christianity in Guam.

Spanish East Indies

The current Chamorro population is believed to be partly of Filipino descent, both because of the historic links between Guam and the Philippines during Spanish rule, and currently through different waves of migration.


Alfred Flores

During the war, Flores provided assistance to Father Jesus Baza Duenas, a Chamorro Roman Catholic priest and an outspoken critic of the Japanese.

Jorge Alberto Palacios

In December 2009, Fino Palacios, Osvaldo Ciro Chamorro and James, were arrested for this case, while he had to give the Education Minister Mariano Narodowski, by assuming the place the writer Abel Posse.

Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal

Speaking about her husband to the participants of the 1998 IPI World Congress in Moscow, Violeta said: “During his whole life, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro was a tireless fighter for democracy in Nicaragua and against the dictatorship of Somoza. This cost him incarceration, torture, exile and finally death. He was warned many times that plans existed to assassinate him, yet no threat detained him from fulfilling his mission to impart the truth and preach democracy.”

Rafael Rodriguez-Ponga y Salamanca

In 2009, an international group of scholars interested in the Chamorro language founded CHiN, the Chamorro Linguistics International Network, of which he is the President.

Salva Chamorro

Salvador Pérez Martínez, aka Salva Chamorro (born 8 May 1990 in Orihuela, Vega Baja, Valencian Community), is a Spanish footballer who plays for UE Llagostera as a striker.

Scouting in Guam

Although being absorbed into the Direct Service Council in 1956, the Chamorro Council was chartered in 1970, before merging with Kilauea Council (based in Hilo, Hawaii) into the Aloha Council of Honolulu in 1973.

Taotao

taotao, the Chamorro word for person or people (singular and/or plural)

Violeta Chamorro

Chamorro was the first elected female head of state in the Americas, the second in the Western Hemisphere after Iceland's Vigdís Finnbogadóttir and the fifth in the world after the elections of Agatha Barbara in Malta, Elisabeth Kopp in Switzerland and Corazon Aquino in the Philippines.


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