Dalupiri Island (Cagayan)

Dalupiri Island is an island in the Babuyan Islands in Luzon Strait north of Luzon Island in the Philippines. The whole island makes up the barangay of Dalupiri, which is part of the municipality of Calayan in Cagayan province, which had 606 inhabitants in 2007. [1] The island can reached by boat from the Port of Aparri.

Dalupiri Island
Dalupiri is the westernmost island of the Babuyan archipelago
Dalupiri Island
Location within the Philippines
Geography
Coordinates19°5′N 121°14′E
ArchipelagoBabuyan Islands
Adjacent bodies of waterBabuyan Channel
Length24 km (14.9 mi)
Width7 km (4.3 mi)
Highest elevation281 m (922 ft)
Highest pointBabuyan Claro
Administration
RegionCagayan Valley
ProvinceCagayan
MunicipalityCalayan
BarangayBabuyan Claro
Demographics
Population606 (2007)

Geography

Dalupiri Island lies about 45 km (28 mi) north of Luzon and about 15 km (9.3 mi) north of Fuga Island. The island has an elongated elliptical shape orientated along a north–south axis, the island has a length of about 18 km (11 mi), with a width of about 7 km (4.3 mi) at its widest point. The topography of the island is characterized by a flat hilly landscape, in the center of the island, the terrain rises to 297 metres (974 ft) above sea level. The island has an area of 166 square kilometres (64 sq mi). The longest river of the island is the Manolong River, about 2.5 km long.

The vegetation of the island consists partly of dense, tropical vegetation, and partly agricultural land. The largest animals on the island are the Carabao and horses. A small population of the Philippine crocodile (Crocodylus mindorensis) is also native to the island.[2] Of the avifauna (birds) present on the island, the nankeen night heron (Nycticorax caledonicus) and the Zebra Ralle (Gallirallus torquatus) both are known to breed on the island. [3]

Another island named Dalupiri is located in the Samar Sea, in the province of Northern Samar.

References
This article contains Public domain text from the U.S. Government Elihu Root collection of United States documents relating to the Philippine Islands (1906)
  1. "Statistische Angaben des NSCB". Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
  2. "CROCODILE SURVEYS ON DALUPIRI AND FUGA" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-06-20. Retrieved 2016-01-09.
  3. "D. ALLEN, C. ESPANOLA, G. BROAD, C. OLIVEROS and J. C. T. GONZALEZ: New bird records for the Babuyan islands, Philippines, including two first records for the Philippines. FORKTAIL 22 (2006): 57–70" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-24. Retrieved 2016-01-09.


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