Tanguingui Island (Cebu)

Tanguingui (variously Tanguingui Islet and historically Isla Tanguingui) is a small, uninhabited island in the Visayan Sea of the Philippines. The island is under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Madridejos, Cebu.[2] There is a lighthouse on the island.

Tanguingui
Tanguingui is located in Philippines
Tanguingui
Tanguingui
Location within the Philippines
Geography
Coordinates11°29′16″N 123°43′25″E
Adjacent toVisayan Sea
Highest elevation6.7 m (22 ft)[1]
Administration
Philippines
RegionCentral Visayas
ProvinceCebu
MunicipalityMadridejos
Demographics
Populationuninhabited

Location and geography

Tanguingui is a small cay in the Visayan Sea. It is 550 meters long and it is 97 kilometres (60 mi) east of Panay Island and almost directly north of Bantayan Island. Flat and sandy with an elevation of around 6.7 metres (22 ft), it is 36.2 kilometres (22.5 mi) east-southeast of Gigantes Sur,[3][4] and 18 kilometres (11 mi) north of Buntay Point of Bantayan Island.[4]

Lighthouse

According to the Faros Españoles de Ultramar, Tanguingui was one of the 27 major lighthouses of the Philippines during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines.[5] In 1903, the US government built a 45-foot-high (14 m) lighthouse on Tanguingui.[6] The current lighthouse is a black steel structure 113 feet (34 m) high.[7]

See also

References
  1. "Sailing Directions (Enroute) Philippine Islands" (PDF). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2008. p. 94. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  2. Census Atlas of the Philippines (Part V of the Census of the Philippines, 1939). Commission of the Census (Philippines). 1939.
  3. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Reuben Jacob Christman (1919). United States Coast Pilot, Philippine Islands, Part 1. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 197. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  4. Pub 162. Sailing Directions (Enroute): Philippine Islands (PDF). National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. 2008. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  5. Rowlett, Russ. "Spanish Lighthouses of the Philippines". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  6. "Tanguingui Island—Light Established" (PDF). London Gazette. 26 February 1904. p. 1261. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  7. "Tanguingui Island Light". Lighthouse Explorer. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
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