[1] The festival is a celebration of the feast of San Rafael Archangel, the patron saint of Pili.

[2] Through Presidential Proclamation 685, October 24, 2024 was declared a special non-working day to commemorate the Cimarrones Festival.

[3] The word "Cimarrones" came from during the promulgation of Christianity in the early 1770s by the Spanish missionaries, when the town houses the “Cimarrones” or the “Remontados” who resisted the foreign rule of the neighboring Hispanic city of Nueva Caceres (which is now Naga City).

In 1998, Mayor Tomas P. Bongalonta, Jr. encouraged all the public schools of Pili to present their different styles of street dancing in connection with the history of cimarrones tribes.

The festival features the town's cultural heritage through the conduct of various activities which includes cultural presentation, sports festival and civic parade.