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 Location within Quezon province | |
.svg)  Alabat Island Location within the Philippines | |
| Geography | |
|---|---|
| Location | Lamon Bay |
| Coordinates | 14°7′4″N 122°3′6″E / 14.11778°N 122.05167°E |
| Adjacent to | Philippine Sea |
| Area | 192 km2 (74 sq mi) |
| Highest elevation | 418 m (1371 ft) |
| Highest point | Mount Camagong |
| Administration | |
| Region | Calabarzon |
| Province | Quezon |
| Municipalities | |
| Largest settlement | Alabat (pop. 15,936) |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 44,589 (2020) |
| Additional information | |
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Alabat Island is an island of the Philippine archipelago, in the Quezon Province of the Calabarzon region, situated just off the east coast of Southern Luzon. The island has an area of 192 square kilometres (74 sq mi) and a population of 41,822. The island has a mountain ridge with peaks ranging from 1,083 ft (330.10 m) to 1,384 ft (421.84 m) which look like islands at a distance.[1] The highest peak is called Mt. Camagong.[2]
Alabat Island comprises three municipalities: Perez in the northern tip, Alabat town proper in the center and Quezon in the south. The first inhabitants of the island were the indigenous Inagta Alabat people who are Negritos, the earliest settlers in the Philippines. The indigenous people spoke the Inagta Alabat language, one of the most endangered languages in the world.
The island is located in Lamon Bay and has an extensive mangrove fringe along its southwest shore, with several hundred hectares of intertidal mudflats exposed at low tide. Large portions of the original mangrove forest have been degraded or completely destroyed for the construction of fish and shrimp ponds.[3]
Alabat enjoys a humid tropical climate with no dry season, but a very pronounced period of maximum rainfall from November to January. The island is home to the indigenous Alabat Agta people, whose language is critically endangered.
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