Wednesday, 12 February 2014

PH-59906 Camiguin Province, Philippines

There are 81 provinces in the Philippines grouped into 17 regions.

Camiguin is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about 10 kilometres off the northern coast of Mindanao. It is politically part of the Northern Mindanao Region of the country. Camiguin is the second-smallest in the country both in population and land area after Batanes.  Mambajao is the capital of the province.


The province consists primarily of Camiguin Island, as well as a few other surrounding minor islets including:
White Island, about 5 kilometres west of the town of Mambajao
Mantigue Island, about 14 kilometres south of Mambajao.

The multi-view postcard above shows (1) Katibawasan Falls (2) White Island beach (3) Sunken Cemetery (5) Mt. Hibok-hibok (6) Paras Beach Resort and (7) an aerial view of Camiguin Island.  The main image is that of the beach of White Island

This postcard came from Maru (22 January 2014) Postcrossing.