Palawan and Cuyo, (Han:「巴拉望」く大「库约」, tr. Parawoun ta Kuuyo) officially known as the Crown Dependency of Palawan and Cuyo from 1946–1971, and then the Commonwealth of Palawan and Cuyo from 1971-1996, was a Sierran territory. It was established in 1946 by the Convention of Hanyang which officially ended Sierran colonial rule over Hani (although de facto rule had ended by the late thirties) and granted most of the Han archipelago independence as present-day Hani. Under the agreement, the Han province of Palawan and the Cuyo islands was leased by the Han government to Sierra after fifty years, and once the agreement reached its expiration, Sierra returned the entirety of the leased lands (with the exception of a small port in southern Palawan Island today known as Camp Maiden) to the Han govern