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 named after the Maguindanaons who constituted the largest Sultanate historically, and evidence from maps made during the 17th and 18th centuries suggests that the name was used to refer to the island by natives at the time.

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.

These mountains, reaching heights of only 1, 200 meters, are not as high as the other structural belts in Mindanao.

The Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao ( ARMM ) is the only autonomous region in the Philippines.

The first captive breeding was only achieved in 1992 at the facility of the Philippine Eagle Foundation in Davao City, Mindanao, the Philippines, which has bred it several times since then.

In addition, each congressional district that falls under the jurisdiction of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao ( a total of 8 ) elects three members each to the country's only subnational legislative assembly.

Construction required only cutting of grass to create a hard, all-weather sod runway, and Del Monte No. 1, the first of seven planned strips on Mindanao, was ready for limited operations by 5 December.

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 ).

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

Spanish negotiators were determined to hang onto all they could, hoping to cede only Mindanao and perhaps the Sulu Islands.

Located in Barangay Ilomavis, Kidapawan City, North Cotabato is the Mindanao Geothermal Production Field with a power output of 106 MW, currently the only power plant of its kind in Mindanao.

This was proven when in the 1st day of August 1989 the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao attempted to put the province under its jurisdiction ; however, on November 6, 1990, only 5 provinces joined the region.

Ilocanos and Ilonggos are the only ethno-linguistic dwellers of the province who are not natives of Mindanao since Cebuanos inhabited the island around 18th century.

Apo, the country ’ s highest peak at 10, 311 feet above sea level, the Pulangi River which is a major contributor to Mindanao ’ s irrigation system and hydro-electric energy, and the vast Liguasan Marsh which not only supplies a bounty of freshwater fish and organic fertilizer but considered as a possible source as well of natural gas.

Its various entrances, all within traffic a rarity that can only be had in the " Heart of Mindanao ".

Speakers in Mindanao and Luzon refer to the language simply as Binisaya or Bisaya, and such calling is been disagreed by its speakers for limiting the term to Cebuano only and not to the other Visayan languages like Waray-waray and Hiligaynon

It was only in 1563 that the first recorded Visayan settlement of some 800 families from Bohol, led by the chieftain Datu Pagbuaya, landed in Mindanao and established a coastal settlement in what is now called Dapitan.

Within a week, only 14 of the original 35 based in the Philippines remained operational, stationed at Del Monte Airfield on Mindanao, attempting to remain out of range of Japanese air attacks.

14 B-17 Flying Fortresses that survived the Battle of the Philippines left Mindanao for Darwin, Australia, between 17 and 20 December 1941, the only aircraft of the Far East Air Force to escape.

His forces were spread thin: there were only 2 infantry regiments in the entirety of Mindanao, giving the Americans only enough strength to control the District headquarters at Zamboanga and its surrounding peninsula.

Ateneo de Davao is the only university in Mindanao to have been granted " institutional accreditation " by the Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities which denotes the highest distinction in the Philippines in consideration of its number of individual program accreditations and the result of an overall evaluation of the quality of its facilities, services, and faculty.

The Ateneo de Davao University is the only school in Mindanao which as been granted " institutional accreditation " which denotes the highest distinction in the Philippines in consideration of its number of individual program accreditations and the result of an overall evaluation of the quality of its facilities, services, and faculty.

Very rare malong designs and styles can indicate the village in which the malong was made, for example, the extremely intricate malong rawatan made only by a handful of Maranao weavers in Lanao del Sur, Mindanao.