Both eruptions caused destruction of villages and farms and displaced thousands of people from their tribal homelands. Because the country is volcanic, the small islands have a mountainous center with coastal plains. Luzon has a broad central valley in the northern provinces along the Cagayan River...
Camiguin: Island Born of Fire – Why it’s Worth the Visit With its proximity to Cagayan de Oro, my homebase of 10 years, you’d have thought I would‘ve found my way to Camiguin sooner, and yet I hadn’t. I’d heard of the island’s white sand bar and its volcanoes and didn’...
3. St. Mary Magdalene Mission Parish (Lagawe, Ifugao Province) 4. Holy Family Mission Parish, Hapao (Hungduan, Ifugao Province) Diocese of Borongan 1. Parish Church of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (Guiuan, Eastern Samar) 2. Cathedral Parish Ch...
Cagayan de Oro:, on the northern coast of Mindanao, is the gateway to some of the most beautiful islands in the Philippines. By way of contrast, in Bukidnon there are huge cattle ranches and the famous Del Monte pineapple fields, and Iligan City is the site of the hydroelectric complex dr...
Sama, one of the largest and most diverse ethnolinguistic groups of insular Southeast Asia. The Sama live mainly in the southern half of the Sulu Archipelago, in the southwestern Philippines, although significant populations also live along the coasts of northeastern Borneo—primarily in the Malaysian...
To the north of the latter, and between the two ranges, is the fertile Cagayan Valley. The narrow Ilocos, or Malayan, range, lying close along the west coast of northern Luzon, rises in places to elevations above 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) and is seldom below 3,500 feet (1,000 ...
mostly of Jolo Island; the Samal, mostly in the Sulu Archipelago; the Bajau, mostly in the Sulu Archipelago; the Yakan of Zamboanga del Sur province; the Ilanon of southern Mindanao; the Sangir of southern Mindanao; the Melabugnan of southern Palawan; and the Jama Mapun of the Cagayan ...