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| | Surigao del Norte |
 | | Surigao del Norte, in Caraga Region, occupies the northernmost part of Mindanao and well over a hundred offshore islands, with a population of 481,000 by the 2000 census, divided among one city--Surigao, the capital--and twenty-seven towns. |
 | | North of the Surigao Peninsula is Surigao Strait, where Japanese naval forces steaming to Leyte Gulf on the night of October 24-25, 1944, to oppose the allied landing on Leyte, ran into several lines of resistance from torpedo boats, destroyers, and cruisers commanded by Admiral Oldendorf, USN. |
 | | Surigao del Sur contains a variety of valuable mineral deposits, including gold, and several of the numerous ethnic groups that have blended into its population came in gold-rushes, but little mining takes place now. |
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