Limasawa, officially the Municipality of Limasawa (
Cebuano: ''Lungsod sa Limasawa'';
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: ''Bayan ng Limasawa''), is an island
municipality
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in the
province
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of
Southern Leyte
Southern Leyte ( ceb, Habagatang Leyte; Kabalian language, Kabalian: ''Habagatan nga Leyte''; war, Salatan nga Leyte; tl, Timog Leyte), officially the Province of Southern Leyte, is a Provinces of the Philippines, province in the Philippines loc ...
,
Philippines
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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 6,191 people.
At the request of the residents of the island of Limasawa, the six
barangays
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that comprise that island were detached and separated from the municipality of
Padre Burgos through Presidential Decree No. 1549, signed by then President
Ferdinand Marcos on June 11, 1978, and constituted as the Municipality of Limasawa.
Limasawa completely became a municipality on August 27, 1989, after then President
Corazon Aquino ordered the plebiscite which its residents voted in favor of the creation. The island, also known as Sarangani Island, is located south of
Leyte
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Since the accessibility of land has be ...
, in the Mindanao or
Bohol Sea
The Bohol Sea, also called the Mindanao Sea, is a sea located between the Visayas and Mindanao islands in the Philippines. It lies south of Bohol and Leyte and north of Mindanao. Siquijor and Camiguin are its two major islands.
The major citi ...
. It is about long from north to south and is the smallest municipality in the province, in both area and population.
Limasawa is famous as it is believed to be the site of the
first mass in Philippine soil, officiated on Easter Sunday of March 31, 1521 by Father Pedro de Valderrama under the fleet of
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan ( or ; pt, Fernão de Magalhães, ; es, link=no, Fernando de Magallanes, ; 4 February 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer. He is best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the Eas ...
.
Geography
Barangays
Limasawa is politically subdivided into 6
barangay
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s.
*Cabulihan
*Lugsongan
*Magallanes (Poblacion)
*San Agustin (Tawid)
*San Bernardo (Tigib)
*Trianas
Climate
Demographics
Economy
See also
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Butuan City
Butuan (pronounced ), officially the City of Butuan ( ceb, Dakbayan sa Butuan; Butuanon: ''Dakbayan hong Butuan''; fil, Lungsod ng Butuan), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the region of Caraga, Philippines. It is the ''de facto'' c ...
*
Dimasaua
Dimasaua, also spelled ''Dimasawa'' and ''Dimasava'', was the invented name created by 17th-century Spanish missionary Fr. Francisco Colín, S.J., pointing to a tiny isle in southern Leyte whose chief, according to Colín, "gave the most signal se ...
*
First Mass in the Philippines
The first documented Catholic Mass in the Philippines was held on March 31, 1521, Easter Sunday. It was conducted by Father Pedro de Valderrama of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition along the shores of what was referred to in the journals of Anton ...
*
Ruy López de Villalobos
Ruy López de Villalobos (; ca. 1500 – April 4, 1546) was a Spanish explorer who sailed the Pacific from Mexico to establish a permanent foothold for Spain in the East Indies, which was near the Line of Demarcation between Spain and Portugal a ...
References
External links
Limasawa Profile at PhilAtlas.comELGU Website of Limasawa
* Philippine Standard Geographic Codebr>Philippine Census InformationLocal Governance Performance Management SystemLimasawa Island Information
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