{"id":65985,"date":"2025-10-01T14:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=65985"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T09:21:31","slug":"leyte-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/leyte-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Leyte Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Leyte Island Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 6.7 magnitude earthquake has hit Leyte Island in the Philippines recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Leyte Island<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a<\/span><b> large island <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the <\/span><b>Visayas group<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of islands in the <\/span><b>Philippines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the eighth-largest island in the Philippines and the sixth most populated.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It spans 7056 sq.km. with a coastline of 969 km.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>In the north<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it <\/span><b>nearly joins the island of Samar,<\/b> <b>separated by the San Juanico Strait, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which becomes as narrow as 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) in some places.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> San Juanico Bridge <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(2.16 kilometers) <\/span><b>connects <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the islands of <\/span><b>Leyte and Samar.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of Leyte is covered in <\/span><b>thick forests and mountain<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s. However, the <\/span><b>Leyte Valley<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the northeast is a <\/span><b>major farming area.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two<\/span><b> biggest cities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Leyte are <\/span><b>Tacloban<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, located on the eastern coast, and <\/span><b>Ormoc<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on the west coast, with the<\/span><b> latter hosting geothermal power plants.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>History<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island was <\/span><b>known to 16th-century Spanish explorers as Tandaya<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its population grew rapidly after 1900, especially in the Leyte and Ormoc valleys.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>In World War II,<\/b> <b>U.S. forces landed<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on Leyte (October 20, 1944), and,<\/span><b> after the<\/b> <b>Battle of Leyte Gulf<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the<\/span><b> Japanese were expelled.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Economy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Most people <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on Leyte are <\/span><b>farmers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, growing crops like rice, corn, coconuts, and bananas.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Fishing <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is also an important activity.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The island has some <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">valuable minerals like manganese<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and people also<\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> quarry sandstone and limestone.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.devdiscourse.com\/article\/science-environment\/3647507-powerful-earthquake-rocks-leyte-island?amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DEVD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leyte Island is a large island in the Visayas group of islands in the Philippines. 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