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Siargao, the Glossary

Siargao is a tear-drop shaped island in the Philippine Sea situated 196 kilometers southeast of Tacloban.^[1]

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Islands of Surigao del Norte
Protected landscapes and seascapes of the Philippines
Surfing locations in the Philippines
Tourist attractions in Surigao del Norte

Amphibolite

Amphibolite is a metamorphic rock that contains amphibole, especially hornblende and actinolite, as well as plagioclase feldspar, but with little or no quartz.

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Asia

Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.

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Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Beach

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.

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Benigno Aquino III

Benigno Simeon Aquino III (born Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th President of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016.

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Bernardo de la Torre

Bernardo de la Torre or della Torres (died 1545) was a Spanish explorer during the Age of Discovery.

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Bisayan languages

The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines.

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Bucas Grande

Bucas Grande is an island in the province of Surigao del Norte in the Philippines. Siargao and Bucas Grande are islands of Surigao del Norte and Tourist attractions in Surigao del Norte.

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Burgos, Surigao del Norte

Burgos, officially the Municipality of Burgos (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Burgos; Bayan ng Burgos), is a 6th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

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Caraga

Caraga, officially the Caraga Administrative Region (or simply known as Caraga Region) and designated as Region XIII, is an administrative region in the Philippines occupying the northeastern section of Mindanao.

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Carrack

A carrack is a three- or four-masted ocean-going sailing ship that was developed in the 14th to 15th centuries in Europe, most notably in Portugal and Spain.

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Clastic rock

Clastic rocks are composed of fragments, or clasts, of pre-existing minerals and rock.

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Coast

A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler is a luxury and lifestyle travel magazine published by Condé Nast.

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Conglomerate (geology)

Conglomerate is a clastic sedimentary rock that is composed of a substantial fraction of rounded to subangular gravel-size clasts.

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Dapa, Surigao del Norte

Dapa, officially the Municipality of Dapa (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Dapa; Bayan ng Dapa), is a 4th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

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Day

A day is the time period of a full rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun.

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Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte

Del Carmen, officially the Municipality of Del Carmen (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Del Carmen; Bayan ng Del Carmen), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

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Diabase

Diabase, also called dolerite or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.

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Dinagat Islands

Dinagat Islands (Cebuano: Mga Pulo sa Dinagat; Surigaonon: Mga Puyo nan Dinagat; Kabalian: Mga Puyo san Dinagat; Waray: Mga Purô han Dinagat; Filipino: Mga Islang Dinagat), officially the Province of Dinagat Islands, is an island province in the Caraga region of the Philippines, located on the south side of Leyte Gulf.

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Gabbro

Gabbro is a phaneritic (coarse-grained), mafic intrusive igneous rock formed from the slow cooling of magnesium-rich and iron-rich magma into a holocrystalline mass deep beneath the Earth's surface.

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General Luna, Surigao del Norte

General Luna, officially the Municipality of General Luna (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan General Luna; Bayan ng Heneral Luna), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

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Geological formation

A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).

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Guyam Island

Guyam Island is a tear-drop shaped island in the Philippine Sea situated southeast of Manila in the province of Surigao del Norte. Siargao and Guyam Island are islands of Surigao del Norte and Tourist attractions in Surigao del Norte.

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Inlet

An inlet is a (usually long and narrow) indentation of a shoreline, such as a small arm, cove, bay, sound, fjord, lagoon or marsh, that leads to an enclosed larger body of water such as a lake, estuary, gulf or marginal sea.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Kiteboarding

Kiteboarding or kitesurfing is a sport that involves using wind power with a large power kite to pull a rider across a water, land, snow, sand, or other surface.

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Late Cretaceous

The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.

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Late Miocene

The Late Miocene (also known as Upper Miocene) is a sub-epoch of the Miocene Epoch made up of two stages.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of protected areas of the Philippines

In the Philippines, Protected Areas are administered by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)'s Biodiversity Management Bureau under the National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) Act of 1992.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Mangrove forest

Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones.

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Mindanao

Mindanao is the second-largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon, and seventh-most populous island in the world. Located in the southern region of the archipelago, the island is part of an island group of the same name that also includes its adjacent islands, notably the Sulu Archipelago.

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Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

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Mudstone

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds.

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Municipalities of the Philippines

A municipality (bayan / munisipalidad / munisipyo / puweblo; bayan; banwa; lungsod; baley; balen / balayan; banwaan; bungto; ili) is a local government unit (LGU) in the Philippines.

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New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.

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Ninoy Aquino International Airport

Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA,;; Paliparang Pandaigdig ng Ninoy Aquino), also known as Manila International Airport (MIA), is the main international airport serving Metro Manila in the Philippines.

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Ophiolite

An ophiolite is a section of Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed, and often emplaced onto continental crustal rocks.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.

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Peninsula

A peninsula is a landform that extends from a mainland and is surrounded by water on most sides.

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Peridotite

Peridotite is a dense, coarse-grained igneous rock consisting mostly of the silicate minerals olivine and pyroxene.

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Philippine Sea

The Philippine Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean east of the Philippine Archipelago (hence the name) and the largest sea in the world, occupying an estimated surface area of.

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Philippine Trench

The Philippine Trench (also called the Philippine Deep, Mindanao Trench, and the Mindanao Deep) is a submarine trench to the east of the Philippines.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pilar, Surigao del Norte

Pilar, officially the Municipality of Pilar (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan Pilar; Bayan ng Pilar), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

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Pleistocene

The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.

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Premna odorata

Premna odorata is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family.

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Prevailing winds

In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction.

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Reef

A reef is a ridge or shoal of rock, coral, or similar relatively stable material lying beneath the surface of a natural body of water.

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Saltwater crocodile

The saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus) is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia.

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San Benito, Surigao del Norte

San Benito, officially the Municipality of San Benito (Lungsod nan San Benito; Bayan ng San Benito), is a 6th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

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San Isidro, Surigao del Norte

San Isidro, officially the Municipality of San Isidro (Surigaonon: Lungsod nan San Isidro; Bayan ng San Isidro), is a 5th class municipality in the province of Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Sarangani

Sarangani, officially the Province of Sarangani (Lalawigan sa Sarangani; Kapuoran sang Sarangani; Maguindanaon: Dairat nu Sarangani, Jawi: دايرت نو سرڠان; Lalawigan ng Sarangani), is a province in the Philippines located in the Soccsksargen region.

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Sayak Airport

Sayak Airport, commonly known as Siargao Airport, is the main airport serving Siargao Island located in Del Carmen, Surigao del Norte, Philippines.

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Schist

Schist is a medium-grained metamorphic rock showing pronounced schistosity.

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Seaweed

Seaweed, or macroalgae, refers to thousands of species of macroscopic, multicellular, marine algae.

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Sentinel-2

Sentinel-2 is an Earth observation mission from the Copernicus Programme that acquires optical imagery at high spatial resolution (10 m to 60 m) over land and coastal waters.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siargao

Also known as Siargao Island.

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Siargao, the Glossary

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See also

Islands of Surigao del Norte

Protected landscapes and seascapes of the Philippines

Surfing locations in the Philippines

Tourist attractions in Surigao del Norte

References