Guintacan
Sign in to saveKinatarkan, also spelled as Kinatarcan and also known as Guintarcan, is an island of the province of Cebu in the Philippines. It lies about off the west coast of Cebu and northeast from Bantayan Island. The island is within the municipality of Santa Fe and comprises three barangays: Hagdan, Kinatarkan and Langub.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Guintacan is referenced by 4 other articles, and connects out to Philippines, geographic coordinate system and Visayan Sea.
The entry is geolocated on the map in CEB, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Islands of Cebu.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- island
- Country
- Philippines
- Located in
- Santa Fe
- Population
- 5247
- Area
- 108
- Body of water
- Visayan Sea
- Image
- Guintacan Island.jpg
- Width
- 25
- Length
- 68
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Kinatarkan, also spelled as Kinatarcan and also known as Guintarcan, is an island of the province of Cebu in the Philippines. It lies about off the west coast of Cebu and northeast from Bantayan Island. The island is within the municipality of Santa Fe and comprises three barangays: Hagdan, Kinatarkan and Langub.
The island has an elongated elliptical shape, about long (N-S) and wide (E-W). Offshore are numerous coral reefs and seagrass beds. The topography of the island is hilly and along the eastern coastline is a large lagoon. The coast of the island is dominated by numerous towering rock cliffs, which are interrupted by some flat beaches. The vegetation of the island consists of dense tropical vegetation, in the interior there are also large intensive agricultural areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Guintacan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
3 mapped locations