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An indigenous people called the Aetas lived on the slopes of the mountain, and in the surrounding lowlands, for several centuries; they grew wheat, barley and rice as well as drawing on the jungles for subsistence.
Mount Pinatubo
Cultural history of the Mount Pinatubo area
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The meaning of the word 'pinatubo,' 'to make grow,' suggests some knowledge of previous eruptions in the Middle Ages.