Adjacent bodies of water Visayan Sea Region Western Visayas Elevation 6.7 m Province Iloilo Adjacent body of water Visayan Sea | Highest elevation 6.7 m (22 ft) Population uninhabited Archipelago Islas de Gigantes Municipality Carles | |
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Tanguingui (variously Tanguingui Islet and historically Isla Tanguingui) is a small, uninhabited island in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. It is a minor island politically administered by the municipality of Carles and one of the easternmost islands in the Islas de Gigantes archipelago. There is a lighthouse on the island.
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Map of Tanguingui Island, Philippines
Location and geographyEdit
Tanguingui is a small cay in the Visayan Sea. It is 97 kilometres (60 mi) east of Panay Island and almost directly north of Bantayan Island. Flat and sandy, it is 37.8 kilometres (23.5 mi) east-southeast of Gigantes Sur and is part of the Islas de Gigantes island group.
LighthouseEdit
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. In 1903, the US government built a 45-foot-high (14 m) lighthouse on Tanguingui. The current lighthouse is a black steel structure 113 feet (34 m) high.