Camiguin

Camiguin ( Cebuano : Lalawigan sa Camiguin ) is an island province in the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea , about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) off the northern coast of Mindanao . It is politically part of the Northern Mindanao Region of the country and formerly a part of Misamis Oriental province. Camiguin is the second-smallest province in the country in both population and land area after Batanes . [4] The provincial capital is Mambajao , which is also the province's largest municipality in both area and population. [5] The province is famous for its sweet lanzones , to which its annual Lanzones Festival is dedicated, the picturesque Sunken Cemetery of Camiguin, and its interior forest reserves, collectively known as the Mount Hibok-Hibok Protected Landscape, which has been declared by all Southeast Asian nations as an ASEAN Heritage Park . There have been moves to establish a dossier nomination for the province to be included in the UNESCO World Heritage List . The name Camiguin is derived from the native word Kamagong , a species of ebony tree that thrives near Lake Mainit in the province of Surigao del Norte , the region from which the earlier inhabitants of the islands, the Manobos , came. Kinamigin , the local language of Camiguin, is closely related to the Manobo language . [6] An earlier Spanish geography book spells the island as Camiguing . There is reason to suppose the Spaniards dropped the final g . [7] Today it is rendered as Camiguín . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camiguin