Camiguin

Camiguin (Cebuano: Lalawigan sa Camiguin) is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) off the northern coast of Mindanao. It is politically part of the Northern Mindanao Region of the country and formerly a part of Misamis Oriental province.

Camiguin is the second-smallest province in the country in both population and land area after Batanes.^[4] The provincial capital is Mambajao, which is also the province's largest municipality in both area and population.^[5]

The province is famous for its sweet lanzones, to which its annual Lanzones Festival is dedicated, the picturesque Sunken Cemetery of Camiguin, and its interior forest reserves, collectively known as the Mount Hibok-Hibok Protected Landscape, which has been declared by all Southeast Asian nations as an ASEAN Heritage Park. There have been moves to establish a dossier nomination for the province to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

The name Camiguin is derived from the native word Kamagong, a species of ebony tree that thrives near Lake Mainit in the province of Surigao del Norte, the region from which the earlier inhabitants of the islands, the Manobos, came. Kinamigin, the local language of Camiguin, is closely related to the Manobo language.^[6]

An earlier Spanish geography book spells the island as Camiguing. There is reason to suppose the Spaniards dropped the final g.^[7]Today it is rendered as Camiguín.

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