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BICOL HISTORY (4892 words) |
 | The island in the north under the jurisdiction of the province are Rapu-rapu, Batan, Cagraray and San Miguel. |
| The Island, with a land area of 1,511.5 square kilometers and a population of 187,440 in 1990, is composed of 11 towns, with Virac as the capital. |
| The province is composed of one wedge-shaped mainland (Masbate), two major islands (Ticao and Burias), and fourteen small islands bounded on the north by the Bicol region, on the south by the Visayan Sea, on the west by the Sibuyan Sea on the east by the Burias Pass, Ticao Pass and Samar Sea. |
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| Masbate is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bicol Region. |
| The islands of the Sibuyan Sea were well known to the Spanish explorers of the sixteenth century. |
| Names of places scattered over Masbate's 121 islands are reminders of the missionary journeys and church foundations that were made by the Spanish soldiers and missionaries long ago: San Pascual and Claveria in Burias, San Jacinto and Monreal in Ticao, Esperanza in Aroroy. |
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