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    Surigao is a port city located on the northeastern tip of Mindanao Island in the Philippines. It was one of the earliest Spanish settlements in the country, serving as a residence for Spanish governors. Surigao remains an important trading center, with fishing, farming of crops like coconuts and abaca, and lumber providing economic activity carried out largely by the Cebuano people. The city has ferry connections to Leyte Island and a highway running south to Davao City, and is also near large nickel deposits on Nonoc Island and Lake Mainit.

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    Surigao is a port city located on the northeastern tip of Mindanao Island in the Philippines. It was one of the earliest Spanish settlements in the country, serving as a residence for Spanish governors. Surigao remains an important trading center, with fishing, farming of crops like coconuts and abaca, and lumber providing economic activity carried out largely by the Cebuano people. The city has ferry connections to Leyte Island and a highway running south to Davao City, and is also near large nickel deposits on Nonoc Island and Lake Mainit.

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    Surigao is a port city located on the northeastern tip of Mindanao Island in the Philippines. It was one of the earliest Spanish settlements in the country, serving as a residence for Spanish governors. Surigao remains an important trading center, with fishing, farming of crops like coconuts and abaca, and lumber providing economic activity carried out largely by the Cebuano people. The city has ferry connections to Leyte Island and a highway running south to Davao City, and is also near large nickel deposits on Nonoc Island and Lake Mainit.

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    Surigao, city, northeastern tip of Mindanao Island, Philippines.

    Surigao was one of the earliest places of Spanish settlement in the


    Philippines; the Royal House was the residence of the Spanish
    governor.

    Surigao, a port and trading centre, lies just southeast of Bilaa Point on
    the Surigao Strait. South of the city, fishing, lumbering, and farming
    (coconuts, abaca [Manila hemp], and rice) are economically
    important. Most of these activities are carried out by the Cebuano
    people, a subgroup of the Visayan (Bisayan) peoples, who compose the
    largest population segment of northern Mindanao.

    The city has ferry service to southern Leyte Island and is the northern


    terminus of a highway running south to Davao City. Nonoc Island,
    about 10 miles (16 km) northeast, contains one of the world’s largest
    nickel deposits and has been mined since 1974. Lake Mainit lies about
    17 miles (28 km) south of the city. Inc. city, 1970. Pop. (2000) 118,534;
    (2010) 140,540.

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