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People who live in present-day Malaybalay and most of Northern Mindanao and parts of Caraga now call themselves Higaonon. Higaonon tribal chieftains claim a city was built at the confluence ( sabangán ) of the Kibalabag and Can-ayan Rivers, at which point the Tagoloan River begins and is considered a sacred place by the tribe.
The Philippine Trench (also called the Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and the Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines. The trench is located in the Philippine sea of the western North Pacific Ocean and continues NNW-SSE. [ 1 ]
Mindanao State University at Naawan was founded as a field laboratory of the MSU College of Fisheries under Dean Domiciano Kapili Villaluz in 1964. This field laboratory was intended to complement the MSU College of Fisheries program in freshwater aquaculture.
Sulu archipelago satellite image captured by Sentinel-2 in 2016 Panguan Island,The last island of the Sulu Archipelago before the Philippine-Malaysia Border.. The archipelago is geographically subdivided into several groups, most significantly those around the main islands Basilan, Jolo and Tawi-Tawi.
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Luzon (/ l uː ˈ z ɒ n /, loo-ZON; Tagalog pronunciation:) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.Located in the northern portion of the Philippine archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as well as Quezon City, the country's most populous city.
In between the two faults lie the Philippine Mobile Belt, a region the takes up most of the western regions of the Philippines. [3] It hosts multiple faults and active seismic blocks from southern Luzon to the Cotabato Trench. [4] The Cotabato Trench itself caused two earthquakes in 1918 (M w 8.3) and 1976 (M w 8.0). The last significant ...
The Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (Tagalog: Rehiyong Awtonomo ng Muslim Mindanao; Arabic: الحكم الذاتي الاقليمي لمسلمي مندناو Al-ḥukm adh-dhātī al-'iqlīmī li-muslimī Mindanāu; [3] [4] abbreviated as ARMM) was an autonomous region of the Philippines, located in the Mindanao island group of the Philippines, that consisted of five predominantly Muslim ...