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LIMASAWA ISLAND

Limasawa, officially the Municipality of Limasawa, is a 6th class municipality in the province of Southern LeytePhilippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 6,061 people.

It is the smallest municipality in the province, in both area and population. Located at an island of the same name, it lies south of Leyte, in the Mindanao or Bohol Sea. The island, also known as Sarangani Island, is about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) long from north to south.

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. The island is one of the early Pacific contact sites between the East and the West.

You can try cliff jumping, snokeling, or relaxing in the bamboo raft.

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