Winters to the south of its breeding range, from India to the Philippines ( where it is localized, e. g. from Mindanao only two records exist ).

Mindanao ( ) is the second largest and easternmost island in the Philippines.

It is also the name of one of the three island groups in the country ( the other two being Luzon and the Visayas ), which consists of the island of Mindanao and smaller surrounding islands.

Davao City is the largest city in Mindanao.

Mindanao is the only area of the Philippines with a significant Muslim presence.

Mindanao is the second largest island in the country at 94, 630 square kilometers, and is the eighth most populous island in the world.

The island of Mindanao is larger than 125 countries worldwide, including the Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Taiwan and Ireland.

Mindanao is surrounded by 4 seas: the Sulu Sea to the west, the Philippine Sea to the east, and the Celebes Sea to the south, and the Mindanao Sea to the north.

A few miles offshore is found the Mindanao or Philippine Deep.

A second important physiographic division of Mindanao is the series of upland plateaus in Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur provinces.

This largest lake on Mindanao and second in the country is roughly triangular in shape with an-long base.

Another of Mindanao ’ s spectacular waterfall sites is located in Malabang, south of Lake Lanao.

The elevation of this divide is well under 200 meters, indicating the almost continuous nature of the lowland from the Mindanao Sea on the north to the Davao Gulf.

Mindanao is the most culturally diverse island in the Philippines where people of different languages, tribes and races meet.

Cebuano is spoken by the majority of people in Mindanao.

The native Maguindanaon and other native Muslim or non-Muslim groups of Mindanao have a culture that is different from the main cultures of the Southern Philippines.

Specifically, it is an Islamist separatist group based in and around the southern islands of the Republic of the Philippines, primarily Jolo, Basilan, and Mindanao.

Its claimed overarching goal is to create a Pan-Islamic superstate across the Malay portions of Southeast Asia, spanning, from east to west, the large island of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago ( Basilan and Jolo islands ), the large island of Borneo ( Malaysia and Indonesia ), the South China Sea, and the Malay Peninsula ( Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Myanmar ).

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Off the coast of eastern Mindanao is the Philippine Trench, which descends to a depth of 10, 430 meters.

The highest point in the country is the peak of Mount Apo in Mindanao, which is 2, 954 m above sea level.

In Mindanao, the Spaniards named the kris-bearing people as Moros or ' Moors '.

As a compromise, on 25 November 1941 the newly arrived 5th Air Base Group was hurried south to Mindanao by inter-island steamer to begin work 27 November on a second bomber base, Del Monte Field, so named because it was situated on pineapple plantations owned by the Del Monte Corporation.

Cagayan province is distinct from the city in Mindanao named Cagayan de Oro, and is far away from Cagayancillo of Palawan or Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi Island in the Sulu Sea.

On February 29, 1543, they entered Baganga Bay, which they named Malaga on the eastern coast of Mindanao.

López de Villalobos named Mindanao " Caesarea Karoli " after the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V of Spain.

In the Philippines, it is named lapu-lapu in Luzon, while in the Visayas and Mindanao it goes by the name pugapo.

The Moros seek to establish an independent Islamic province in Mindanao to be named Bangsamoro.

Despite the fact that there are other enclaves of Filipinos living outside this district ( such as Artesia, Cerritos, Eagle Rock ) it was named " Historic Filipinotown " since it was one of the few areas where Filipinos first settled during the early part of the 20th century and home to key Filipino organizations, Filipino churches ( Filipino Christian Church, Iglesia ni Kristo, St. Columban Filipino Catholic Church, United Church of God Ministries, Praise Christian Fellowship and Congregational Christian Church, housing ( Manila Terrace, Mindanao Towers, Mountain View Terrace and Villa Ramos ) and social service centers.

Because of these, the Department of Tourism named it one of the best visiting islands in Mindanao and now the fastest growing tourist destination in the country.

On March 12, 1890 a fortified station named after the member of the royal family fort Alfonso XII locally known as fort Militar was built to stop the Moro from their slave-raiding activities against the Subanu people to Christians, and to facilitate their pacification on Mindanao campaign of colonization in general.

* A town in Agusan del Norte province, Mindanao was also named after her.

After their deaths, the New People's Army Southern Luzon and Southern Mindanao Commands would, in their honor, be named the Melito Glor Command and the Medardo Arce Command respectively.

Americans were first exposed to eskrima during the Philippine-American War in events such as the Balangiga Massacre where most of an American company was hacked to death or seriously injured by bolo-wielding guerillas in Balangiga, Samar or in battles in Mindanao where an American serviceman was decapitated by a Moro warrior even after he emptied his. 38 Long Colt caliber revolver into his opponent.

The last mission from Pilar was flown 8 January, after which its nine P-40 aircraft displaced to Del Monte Field, Mindanao ( only six arrived ).

The P-35s were flown to Mindanao on 11 January after the A-27 was lost in a landing accident.

The B-25s took off just after midnight and bombed shipping at Cebu on Cebu Island and installations at Davao on Mindanao.

However, La Liga disbanded after only one meeting as Rizal was arrested and deported to Dapitan in Mindanao.

Its regional center, Davao City, has an annual income of about P4. 13 billion in 2010, without introducing new taxes, making it as the most economically rich city both in Mindanao and Visayas and also outside Metro Manila after Makati ( P10. 1 billion ), Quezon City ( P9. 4 billion ), Manila ( P7. 3 billion ), and Pasig ( P5. 3 billion ).

The international airport in Davao City, Davao International Airport, is the largest and most developed in Mindanao, has the second longest runway in the island, and the third most busiest in the country, after Ninoy Aquino International Airport and Mactan-Cebu International Airport.

The ARMM previously included the province of Shariff Kabunsuan until July 16, 2008, when Shariff Kabunsuan ceased to exist as a province after the Filipino Supreme Court declared the " Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act 201 ", which created it, unconstitutional in Sema v. Comelec.

During the beginning of the 1950s up to the mid-1960s, Cotabato was by far the second largest and most progressive city in Mindanao, after Davao City.

Immediately after the declaration, American investments entered Mindanao and mass migration of Christians was encouraged.

José Malcampo, 3rd Marquis of San Rafael, Prime Minister of Spain in 1871, during the reign of King Amadeo I, was granted the titles of Count of Jolo and Viscount of Mindanao after he victoriously took the City of Jolo from the Sultanate of Sulu during his governorship general of the Philippines.

It is the third largest island in the Philippines, after Luzon and Mindanao.

Although initially objected to by MacArthur, the by-passing of Rabaul in favor of its neutralization meant that his Elkton plan had been achieved, and after invading Saidor, MacArthur then moved into his Reno Plan, an advance across the north coast of New Guinea to Mindanao.

Under the Osmeña Colony Act of 1912, Pikit was founded on June 17, 1913 by the first Christian Filipino Colonists from the Province of Cebu, About one hundred twenty Cebuanos came under the Colony Agent, Vicente Lozada, The first batch of colonists from Cebu arrived at Fort Pikit after two days of sailing on board a river boat called " Hall ", followed the Rio Grande de Mindanao.

Islamic democracy entered into mainstream politics after the government and the Moro National Liberation Front signed a peace deal establishing the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.

Immediately after the declaration, American investments entered Mindanao and mass migration of Christians was encouraged.

Later, after organizing the guerrilla forces on Mindanao, he wrote in this diary,

When MacArthur moved south to attack Mindanao after capturing the northern Philippines, and when he instigated the reconquest of portions of Borneo, he violated the " basic tenets " of island hopping.

Many of the people after this period migrated to the Central Plains of Luzon, Mindanao and to Hawaii and California in the United States of America.

The Mindanao River, also known as the Rio Grande de Mindanao, is the second largest river system in the Philippines, after the Cagayan River of Luzon.

Moros often attacked most of its coastal settlements as they returned to their bases in Mindanao and Sulu, after raiding affluent places in Luzon, Bicol and West Visayas.

The growth and development of the municipality served high after the Second World War as immigrants from all over the country ( mainly from Visayas and Mindanao ) came flocking into the fertile valleys and low mountains of the community.