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Camotes Sea
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Key facts
- Location
- Visayas
- Type
- sea
- Basin countries
- Philippines
- Settlements
- Baybay Cebu City Danao Ormoc
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- marginal sea
- Country
- Philippines
- Area
- 323
- Image
- Jetty At Hisoler (54230446).jpeg
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- native label
- Camotes Sea
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- Camotes Sea
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Encyclopedic overview
The Camotes Sea is a small sea within the Philippine archipelago, situated between the Central Visayan and the Eastern Visayan regions. It separates Cebu from Leyte hence is bordered by Cebu to the west, Leyte to the east and north, and Bohol to the south. At its center are the Camotes Islands, but it also contains Mactan Island, Olango Island, Lapinig Island (in Bohol), and various other small islets.
Northwards, the sea is connected to the Visayan Sea. Southwards, it is connected to the Bohol Sea (also called the Mindanao Sea) in two ways: to the southwest by the Cebu Strait (and its three channels, the Mactan, the Olango, and the Hilutangan), and to the southeast by the Canigao Channel.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Camotes Sea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.