Baras
Baras is a village in Palo, Leyte Island, Eastern Visayas, Davao Region and has about 2,760 residents. Baras is situated nearby to the neighborhood St. Scholastica’s Subdivision, as well as near the village San Fernando.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include MacArthur Park and Leyte Landing historical marker.
MacArthur Park
Park
The MacArthur Leyte Landing Memorial National Park is a protected area of the Philippines that commemorates the historic landing of General Douglas MacArthur in Leyte Gulf at the start of the campaign to recapture and liberate the Philippines from Japanese occupation on 20 October 1944.
Leyte Landing historical marker
Memorial
Photo: Leocvlauzon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leyte Landing historical marker is a memorial.
University of the Philippines Manila School of Health Sciences in Leyte
University
The University of the Philippines Manila - School of Health Sciences in Leyte is a medical school in the Philippines supervised by the University of the Philippines, Manila. One of the schools offerings includes midwifery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tanauan and Tacloban.
Tanauan
Tanauan, officially the Municipality of Tanauan, is a first-class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 57,455 people.
Tacloban
Photo: JinJian, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tacloban is a city in Eastern Visayas and the capital of the province of Leyte. It's the home of the Pintados Festival, a cultural event in Leyte commemorating the life and culture of the early settlers of Tacloban.
Baras
- Type: Village with 2,760 residents
- Category: locality
- Location: Palo, Leyte Island, Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
11.17119° or 11° 10′ 16″ northLongitude
125.00697° or 125° 0′ 25″ eastPopulation
2,760Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
7Q3752C4+FQOpenStreetMap ID
node 12856696265OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1726772
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In Other Languages
From Filipino to Spanish—“Baras” goes by many names.
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Localities in the Area
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