Mindanao

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An island in the southern Philippines with mountains and volcanoes

proper noun

: Mindanao

The earthquake occurred near the west coast of Mindanao, about 950 kilometers south of Manila.
Mindanao Island

And then back with you and then back to me before rest before going back to Mindanao for his new home.

Examples

The lush forests and active volcanoes of Mindanao attract many tourists each year.
And obviously in Mindanao it's you have the tensions with different cultural and religious groups as well.
But wherever we went, on Mindanao or any of the other islands, we were in the house of our friends.

Fiction book (1990)
A year after he left, he sent me a telegram, from the island of Mindanao... in the Philippines.

I Come with the Rain (2009)
I always love finding myself in Mindanao because I just feel that the culture has been so beautifully reserved throughout the generations.
On the 21st, the Japanese supply base at Malaybalay in Mindanao was captured by units of the U.S. 31st Division.

Fiction book (1990)
I believe this approach has been used on Mindanao and other places to keep lumber interests from devastating indigenous homelands.

Blog text (11)
In 1971, a band of cave-dwelling foragers was found in a remote part of Mindanao Island in the Philippines (Nance 1975).

Academic text (1997)
The U.S. Army's 41st Infantry Division lands in southwestern Mindanao in the Philippines.

Surface Forms

Mindanao main

Etymology

Mindanao comes from the name of a local people, the Maguindanao, which means something like 'people of the river plain' or 'people of the river' in their language. So the island's name comes from the people who lived by the rivers and low plains of the region.