It is the smallest municipality in the province, in both area and population. Located at an island of the same name, it lies south of Leyte, in the Mindanao or Bohol Sea. The island, also known as Sarangani Island, is about 10 kilometers (6.2mi) long from north to south.
Limasawa is famous as it believed to be the site of the “first mass in the Philippines soil”, officiated on Eastern Sunday of March 31, 1521 by Father Pedro De Valderrama under the fleet of Ferdinand Magellan. The island is one of the early Pacific contact sites between the East and the west.
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