Calagnaan (also Calagna-an) is an island in northeastern
Iloilo
Iloilo ( ; ), officially the Province of Iloilo (; ; ; ), is a province in the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital and largest city is Iloilo City, the regional center of Western Visayas and politically independen ...
,
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 ...
. It is one of fourteen islands politically administered by the municipality of
Carles. The population of the island is 5,017 as of 2020 census.
Location and geography
Calagnaan is a wooded island northeast of the
Panay
Panay is the sixth-largest and fourth-most populous island in the Philippines, with a total land area of and a total population of 4,542,926, as of 2020 census. Panay comprises 4.4 percent of the entire population of the country. The City of Il ...
Island coast in the
Visayan Sea
The Visayan Sea is a sea in the Philippines surrounded by the islands of the Visayas. It is bounded by the islands Masbate to the north, Panay to the west, Leyte to the east, and Cebu and Negros to the south.
The sea is connected to severa ...
. It is southeast of
Binuluangan Island and separated from that island by the
Nilidlaran Pass.The west coast of the island is surrounded by
reef
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s.
Calagnaan is part of
barangay
The barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as ''barrio'', is the smallest Administrative divisions of the Philippines, administrative division in the Philippines. Named after the Precolonial barangay, precolonial po ...
s Manlot, Tinigban, Bito-on (Proper, Bung-Indong Dako and Bung Indong Gamay), Talingting and Barangoalan (variously spelled ''Barangkalan''). The island is home to ''
Brachymeles talinis''.
History
The name Calagnaan comes from ''dagna'' or ''lagna'', which is the
Visayan
Visayans ( Cebuano: ''mga Bisayà'' ) are a Philippine ethnolinguistic family group or metaethnicity native to the Visayas, to the southernmost islands south of Luzon, and to a significant portion of Mindanao. They are composed of numerous di ...
word for ''water springs'' several of which can be found on the island. There are mining operations on the island, administered by the Calagnaan Agro-Industry Corporation.
Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan
Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda, was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that is among List of the most intense tropical cyclones, the most powerful tropical cyclones ever recorded. Upon ...
(locally known as ''Yolanda'') passed over Calagnaan, along with the rest of Panay, on November 8, 2013. The British ships and both stopped on Calagnaan as part of their broader Philippine relief effort. When HMS ''Daring'' landed in the area on 23 November, they discovered that one remote village of Calagnaan had not yet been reached and villagers had not eaten for several days. HMS ''Illustrious'' initial assessment on November 25 was that 177 houses, 60–70 boats, and the island school had been damaged.
''Illustrious'' crew began its aid mission with a helicopter-drop of a food pack and followed up with enough tarpaulin to repair 250 homes. Other organizations involved in the relief efforts on Calagnaan included
Save the Children
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The organization raises money to imp ...
and
UNICEF
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.
See also
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List of islands in the Philippines
As an archipelago, the Philippines comprises about 7,641 islands clustered into three major island groups: Luzon, the Visayas, and Mindanao. Only about 2,000 islands are inhabited,
References
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External links
Calagnaan Islandat
OpenStreetMap
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Island Barangays of Carles, Iloilo
Islands of Iloilo