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Camiguin Island is a pearl-shaped island with an area of approximately 238 square kilometers (92 sq mi). [4] The island measures about 23 kilometers (14 mi) at its longest and 14.5 kilometers (9.0 mi) at its widest breadth. [29] The island is mountainous with the highest elevation reaching over 5,000 ft (1,500 m).
Timpoong and Hibok-Hibok Natural Monument is a Philippine natural monument located in Northern Mindanao on the island of Camiguin.It encompasses two scenic volcanoes in the Camiguin Mindanao range that span the core of Camiguin: Mount Mambajao, which includes Mount Timpoong, its highest peak, and Mount Catarman, which includes Mount Hibok-Hibok, the island's only currently active volcano. [1]
On February 16, 1871, earthquakes and subterranean rumblings began to be felt on the island, which increased in severity until April 30 when a volcanic fissure opened up 400 yards southwest of the village of Catarman, on the northwest flank of Hibok-hibok Volcano. From the opening, lava was continuously ejected and poured into the sea for four ...
Camiguin is an island province in the Philippines. Subcategories. This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total. ... History of Camiguin (1 P) P ...
Poverty incidence of Northern Mindanao 10 20 30 40 50 2006 39.01 2009 40.11 2012 39.47 2015 38.72 2018 23.08 2021 19.20 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority An aerial view of Cagayan de Oro as seen in August 2017 The economy of Northern Mindanao is the second largest regional economy in the island of Mindanao. While still a mainly agricultural region, there is also a booming growth of ...
White Island is an uninhabited white sandbar located about 1.4 kilometres (0.87 mi) off the northern shore of Mambajao in the volcanic island of Camiguin in the Philippines. The island is generally horseshoe shaped, although the tides constantly resize and reshape its exact form.
Babuyan Islands satellite image captured by Sentinel-2 in 2016 Smith Volcano on Babuyan Island. The eastern islands of the archipelago are part of the Luzon Volcanic Arc.Three volcanoes from two of the islands have erupted in historical times - Camiguin de Babuyanes on Camiguin Island, [5] Babuyan Claro Volcano and Smith Volcano (also known as Mount Babuyan) on Babuyan Island.
Camiguin de Babuyanes or Mount Camiguin, is an active stratovolcano on Camiguin Island which is part of the Babuyan Islands group that is located in Luzon Strait in the Philippines, north of the island of Luzon located in the municipality of Calayan in the province of Cagayan. The volcano and the island are within the jurisdiction of the ...