Carigara
Carigara is a municipality of 55,000 people in the northern part of Leyte province on the shores of Carigara Bay. It is surrounded by wide rice fields fanning out towards the mountains in the distance.
- Type: Town with 54,700 residents
- Description: municipality in the Philippines in the province of Leyte
- Also known as: “Bayan ng Carigara”, “Carigara, Leyte”, “Garigara”, “Lungsod sa Carigara”, “Municipality of Carigara”, “Munisipalidad ng Carigara”, and “カリガラ湾”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Capoocan and Barugo.
Capoocan
Town
Capoocan, officially the Municipality of Capoocan… Capoocan is situated 5 km west of Carigara.
Barugo
Town
Carigara
- Categories: municipality of the Philippines and locality
- Location: Leyte Island, Eastern Visayas, Visayas, Municipality of Santo Tomas, Davao del Norte, Davao Region, Mindanao, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
11.3017° or 11° 18′ 6″ north
Longitude
124.6873° or 124° 41′ 14″ east
Population
54,700
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
UN/LOCODE
PH CRA
Open location code
7Q368M2P+MW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Amis to Zulu—“Carigara” goes by many names.
- Amis: “Carigara”
- Asturian: “Carigara”
- Balinese: “Carigara”
- Banjar: “Carigara”
- Basque: “Carigara”
- Batak Toba: “Carigara”
- Buginese: “Carigara”
- Capiznon: “Carigara”
- Catalan: “Carigara”
- Cebuano: “Carigara”
- Central Bikol: “Carigara”
- Chavacano: “Carigara”
- Czech: “Carigara”
- Dagbani: “Carigara”
- Danish: “Carigara”
- Dutch: “Carigara”
- Esperanto: “Carigara”
- Fijian: “Carigara”
- French: “Carigara”
- Georgian: “კარიგარა”
- German: “Carigara”
- Gorontalo: “Carigara”
- Hausa: “Carigara”
- Hiligaynon: “Carigara”
- Hiri Motu: “Carigara”
- Igbo: “Carigara”
- Iloko: “Carigara”
- Indonesian: “Carigara”
- Irish: “Carigara”
- Italian: “Carigara”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Carigara”
- Japanese: “カリガラ”
- Javanese: “Carigara”
- Kinaray-A: “Carigara”
- Kongo: “Carigara”
- Korean: “카리가라”
- Malagasy: “Carigara”
- Malay: “Carigara”
- Maori: “Carigara”
- Minangkabau: “Carigara”
- Nauru: “Carigara”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Carigara”
- Oromo: “Carigara”
- Paiwan: “Carigara”
- Pampanga: “Carigara”
- Pangasinan: “Carigara”
- Portuguese: “Carigara”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Carigara”
- Sakizaya: “Carigara”
- Samoan: “Carigara”
- Scots: “Carigara”
- Spanish: “Carigara”
- Sundanese: “Carigara”
- Swahili: “Carigara”
- Swedish: “Carigara”
- Tagalog: “Carigara”
- Tahitian: “Carigara”
- Tetum: “Carigara”
- Tok Pisin: “Carigara”
- Urdu: “کاریگارا”
- Vietnamese: “Carigara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Carigara”
- Welsh: “Carigara”
- Xhosa: “Carigara”
- Yoruba: “Carigara”
- Zulu: “Carigara”
- “Carigara”
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