Mount Bongao
Mount Bongao (famously known as Bud Bongao) is a mountain located on Bongao Island in the province of Tawi-Tawi. It is a mountain formed with six limestone pillars that serves as its six peaks. It is the Philippines' southernmost peak. Bud Bongao is inside the ''Bongao Peak Eco-Tourism Park'' that was inaugurated on July 3, 2017. It is a 250-hectare forest that is one of the last remaining moist forests in the Sulu Archipelago. The mountain is of spiritual and traditional importance to the indigenous Sama Dilaut people. The mountain is also considered sacred where it is believed that two Islamic preachers who were direct followers of Karim ul-Makhdum, are buried under what is called ''Tampat Rocks,'' although the site was already sacred even before Islam arrived. Karim ul-Makhdum brought Islam to the Philippines in the year 1380. Physical characteristics Bud Bongao is composed of six limestone pillars that form six of its peaks, which serves as view points for the islands a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sama Language
Sama or SAMA may refer to: Places * Sama, Burkina Faso, a town in the Kouka Department, Banwa Province, Burkina Faso * Sama, China (Sanya), a city in Hainan, China * Sama, Chalus, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Sama, Nowshahr, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran * Sama, South Khorasan, a village in Iran * Sama (Harstad), a part of Harstad city in northern Norway * Sama District, one of ten districts of Tacna province, Peru * Sama, Asturias, a parish in the municipality of Langreo in northern Spain * Sama River, a river in Peru People * Sama-Bajau, an ethnic group of the Philippines and Malaysia whose members commonly refer to themselves as Sama * Sama (surname), a list of people * Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI Arts and entertainment * ''Sama'' (film), a 1988 Tunisian film directed by Néjia Ben Mabrouk * ''Sama'' (Dragana Mirković album), a 2000 studio album by Serbian singer Dragana Mirković * ''Sama'' (Matthew Shipp and Sabir Mateen album), jazz albu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Neurothemis Terminata
''Neurothemis terminata'' is a species of dragonfly in family Libellulidae. ''Neurothemis terminata'' is a widespread and often common species which can occur in man-made habitats, from Peninsular Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan to the Lesser Sundas in Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, .... Male ''N. terminata'' have red colour on its body and wings, while the female have yellowish colour. The adult has 8-11 cm body length. References Libellulidae Insects of Asia Insects described in 1911 {{Libellulidae-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sheik Karimol Makhdum Mosque
The Sheikh Karimul Makhdum Mosque is located in Barangay Tubig Indangan, Simunul, Tawi-Tawi, the Philippines. It is the oldest mosque in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia. History According to local folklore, it was built by a Syrian Arab trader and Sunni Sufi scholar named Sheikh Karimul Makhdum in 1380. It was first thought that the pillars of the old mosque found within the current mosque are the pillars of the original allegedly built in 1380. However, studies from the National Museum of the Philippines have confirmed that the pillars found within the present mosque dates back to the 17th century. The four pillars are regarded as sacred and have high status in Philippine culture as they are at least 400 years old and are the oldest known Islamic artifacts in the entire Philippines. The current mosque building was constructed in the 1960s, after most of the prior structure was burned down in 1941 during the Japanese occupation of World War II. Cultural status T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sabah
Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah has land borders with the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and Indonesia's North Kalimantan province to the south. The Federal Territory (Malaysia), Federal Territory of Labuan is an island just off Sabah's west coast. Sabah shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the west and the Philippines to the north and east. Kota Kinabalu is the state capital and the economic centre of the state, and the seat of the Government of Sabah, Sabah State government. Other major towns in Sabah include Sandakan and Tawau. The 2020 census recorded a population of 3,418,785 in the state. It has an equatorial climate with tropical rainforests, abundant with animal and plant species. The state has long mountain ranges on the west side which forms part of the Crocker Range National Park. Kinabatangan River, the second longest river in Malaysia runs ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tambisan Island
Tambisan Island () is a Malaysian island located in the Sulu Sea on the state of Sabah. References See also * List of islands of Malaysia This is a list of islands of Malaysia. According to the Department of Survey and Mapping, Malaysia, there are 879 islands in the country. The state of Sabah has the most islands with 395 islands within its waters. Apart from that, Malaysia also h ... Islands of Sabah {{Sabah-geo-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Celebes Sea
The Celebes Sea ( ; ) or Sulawesi Sea (; ) of the western Pacific Ocean is bordered on the north by the Sulu Archipelago and Sulu Sea and Mindanao Island of the Philippines, on the east by the Sangihe Islands chain, on the south by Sulawesi's Minahasa Peninsula, and the west by northern Kalimantan in Indonesia. It extends 420 miles (675 km) north-south by east-west and has a total surface area of , to a maximum depth of . South of the Cape Mangkalihat, the sea opens southwest through the Makassar Strait into the Java Sea. The Celebes Sea is a piece of an ancient ocean basin that formed 42 million years ago in a locale removed from any landmass. By 20 million years ago, the earth's crust movement had moved the basin close enough to the Indonesian and Philippine volcanoes to receive emitted debris. By 10 million years ago the Celebes Sea was inundated with continental debris, including coal, which was shed from a growing young mountain on Borneo and the basin had ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brown-chested Jungle Flycatcher
The brown-chested jungle flycatcher (''Cyornis brunneatus'') is a species of bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae. It breeds in South China and winters in the Malay Peninsula. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. This species was previously placed in the genus ''Rhinomyias'' but was moved to ''Cyornis'' based on the results of a 2010 molecular phylogenetic Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ... study. References External linksBirdLife Species Factsheet. brown-chested jungle flycatcher Birds of South China Wintering birds of Southeast Asia brown-chested jungle flycatcher Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Muscicapidae-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Philippine Slow Loris
The Philippine slow loris (''Nycticebus menagensis'') is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris that is native to the north and east coastal areas of the island of Borneo, as well as the Sulu Archipelago in the Philippines. The species was first named as the Bornean slow loris in 1892, but lumped into the widespread Sunda slow loris (''N. coucang'') in 1952. However, it was promoted to full species status – again as the Bornean slow loris – based on molecular analysis in 2006. In 2013, two former subspecies of the Bornean slow loris were elevated to species status, and a new species—'' N. kayan''—was recognized among the Bornean population. Weighing , it is one of the smallest of the slow lorises, and can be distinguished from other slow lorises by its pale golden to red fur, the lack of markings on its head, and consistent absence of a second upper incisor. Like other slow lorises, it has a vestigial tail, round head, short ears, a curved grooming c ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tawitawi Forest Rat
The Tawitawi forest rat or Tawitawi Island rat (''Rattus tawitawiensis'') is a species of rodent in the family Muridae. It is found only in Tawi-Tawi, Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot .... References * Baillie, J. 1996.Rattus tawitawiensis 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 20 July 2007. * Rattus Mammals described in 1985 Rodents of the Philippines Endemic fauna of the Philippines Fauna of Tawi-Tawi Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Rattus-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tawi-Tawi Island
Tawitawi Island (also spelled Tawi Tawi or Tawi-Tawi) is a Philippine island in the Sulu Archipelago between the Sulu Sea and Celebes Sea, about east of Borneo. It is the main island of Tawi-Tawi Province, with a little more than half the province's 1,087.40 km2 (419.85 sq mi) land area. Tawitawi has an area of , making it the 21st-largest island of the Philippines, and the third-largest island in the Sulu Archipelago (after Basilan and Jolo). It has a shoreline length of , and a maximum elevation of . Tawitawi Island is of volcanic origin and irregular in shape, about long and between wide. It is hilly and heavily wooded, with both white sandy beaches and rocky coasts. The island is subdivided into four municipalities (Bongao, Languyan, Panglima Sugala, and Tandubas). The inhabitants are mostly Sama people, speaking Sama–Bajaw languages and of Muslim Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic reli ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Simunul, Tawi-Tawi
Simunul, officially the Municipality of Simunul (), is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 34,245 people. The majority of the people living here are Muslims. Geography The municipality consists of 2 islands: the larger eponymous Simunul Island and Manuk Mangkaw (Manuk Manka) Island, to the south. There are six beaches in Simunul. Barangays Simunul is politically subdivided into 15 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks while some have sitios. *Bagid *Bakong *Doh-Tong *Luuk Datan *Manuk Mangkaw *Maruwa *Mongkay *Pagasinan *Panglima Mastul *Sokah-Bulan *Tampakan (Poblacion) *Timundon *Tonggusong *Boheh Indangan *Ubol The barangays of Timundon, Manuk Mangkaw, and Luuk Datan are located on Manuk Mangkaw Island; the remaining 12 barangays are located on Simunul Island. Climate Demographics The language spoken is Sama, also known as Sinama. The first Muslims in the Philippines are said to have ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sanga-Sanga
Sanga-Sanga is an island of the Celebes Sea in the southwestern Philippines, bordered to nordwest by the Sulu Sea. The island is part of the Sulu Archipelago. It is sandwiched between Tawitawi Island to the east and Bangao Island to the south. The island is subdivided into 11 barangays (Karungdong, Lakit-Lakit, Lato-Lato, Luuk Pandan, Malassa, Mandulan, Pagasinan, Pakias, Paniongan, Sanga-Sanga, and Tubig Basag), all belonging to the municipality of Bongao in the province of Tawi-Tawi. History During World War II the island was a major stopover for the Japanese Navy. It was liberated by American forces on 2 April 1945, and used by American and Australian forces. Transportation Sanga-Sanga Airport, the main airport serving Tawi-Tawi province, is located on the island. References External links Sanga-Sanga Islandat OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap (abbreviated OSM) is a free, Open Database License, open geographic database, map database updated and maintained by a commun ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |