Camiguin is an island province of the Philippines located in the Bohol Sea, about ten kilometers off the

northern coast of Misamis Oriental in Mindanao. It is the second-smallest province both in population and land

area next only to Batanes. The capital of the province is Mambajao and it is a part of the Northern Mindanao

region.

          The name Camiguin is derived from the native word ���Kamagong���, a species of the ebony tree that thrives near Lake Mainit in the Province of Surigao del Norte. Earlier inhabitants of the islands are Manobos from the

Surigao region. An earlier Spanish geography book writes the island as "Camiguing". There is reason to

suppose the Spaniards dropped the final