Busuanga Island

Busuanga, is the largest island in the Calamian Group of islands in the province of Palawan in the Philippines. Busuanga Island is the second largest island in the province after Palawan island itself. The island is located halfway between the islands of Mindoro and Palawan with the South China Sea located to the west and the Sulu Sea to the southeast. South of the island are the two other major islands of the Calamian Group: Culion Island and Coron Island. The western third of the island is under the municipality of Busuanga and the eastern two-thirds belong to the municipality of Coron.

Busuanga Island is known as a recreational diving location due to World War II Japanese wrecks that were sunk by American navy bombings in Coron Bay, a natural anchorage near the town center of Coron, on September 24, 1944.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Geology

Part of the North Palawan Block, Busuanga Island consists mainly of the Liminangcong Formation, a Permian to Late Jurassic chert. This chert forms the distinguishing mountain ranges, with the Middle-Late Jurassic Guinlo Formation clastics forming the valleys on Busuanga.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Busuanga was known for its tabular manganese deposits found within the chert sequence, Template:Convert thick and extending laterally up to Template:Convert. Braunite is the common manganese mineral type found in the ore.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Geology Gallery

• Outcrop of the deformed Liminangcong chert formation in Busuanga, Palawan 02.jpg

  An outcrop of deformed Liminangcong chert along the Coron-Busuanga road near the Marina del Sol yacht club

• Folded layers of bedded chert formation in Busuanga, Palawan 01.jpg

  Close-up view of the folded layers of Liminangcong chert in Busuanga

• Bundok Dalara mula sa tuktok ng Bundok Tapyas, Bayan ng Coron, Isla ng Busuanga, Lalawigan ng Palawan.jpg

  View of Mt. Dalara, the tallest mountain in Busuanga Island from Mt. Tapyas in Coron Town

• Highly deformed bedded cherts in Coron town, Busuanga (Lubos na naipit na mga batong tsert sa bayan ng Coron).jpg

  Another outcrop of heavily-deformed Liminangcong chert in Guadalupe, Coron

External links

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• Images from a dive trip to Coron, Busuanga in April 2006
• Landscapes of Busuanga 2012 (archived 26 September 2017)