Province Of Samar
Samar, officially the Province of Samar ( war, Probinsya han Samar; tl, Lalawigan ng Samar), formerly named as Western Samar, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. Its capital is the city of Catbalogan. It is bordered by Northern Samar, Eastern Samar, Leyte (province), Leyte and the Leyte Gulf, and includes several islands in the Samar Sea. Samar is connected to the Leyte, island of Leyte via the San Juanico Bridge. In 1768, Leyte and modern Samar were created out of the Samar Province (1768-1965), historical province of Samar. In 1965, Northern and Eastern Samar were created. Fishing and agriculture are the major economic activities in the province. On 8 November 2013, the province was significantly damaged by Typhoon Haiyan, Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), particularly the towns of Basey, Samar, Basey, Marabut, Samar, Marabut and Santa Rita, Samar, Santa Rita. Etymology ''Samar'' is said to derive from the word ''Sama ...
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San Juanico Bridge
The San Juanico Bridge ( fil, Tulay ng San Juanico; war, Tulay han San Juanico) is part of the Pan-Philippine Highway and stretches from Samar to Leyte across the San Juanico Strait in the Philippines. Its longest length is a steel girder viaduct built on reinforced concrete piers, and its main span is of an arch-shaped truss bridge, truss design. Constructed during the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos through Japanese Official Development Assistance (Japan), Official Development Assistance loans, it has a total length of —the second longest bridge spanning a body of seawater in the Philippines after Cebu-Cordova Bridge. Marcos built the bridge as a personal gift to his wife Imelda Marcos, Imelda using public funds siphoned through the controversial Marcos Japanese ODA scandal.. It was one of the high-visibility foreign-loan projects initiated by Marcos during the run-up to the 1969 Philippine presidential election, 1969 presidential election. Completed four year ...
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