Hilutangan Channel

Hilutangan Channel
Hilutangan Channel is located in Visayas
Hilutangan Channel
Hilutangan Channel
Location within the Philippines
Hilutangan Channel is located in Philippines
Hilutangan Channel
Hilutangan Channel
Hilutangan Channel (Philippines)
LocationCentral Visayas, Philippines
Coordinates10°16′21″N 124°0′51.12″E / 10.27250°N 124.0142000°E / 10.27250; 124.0142000
Typechannel

Hilutangan Channel (or Gilutungan Channel) is a deep water channel that separates Mactan Island from Olango Island.

The Mactan Reef Flat lies on the port (left) side of this channel and the Olango Reef Flat lies on the starboard (right) side of this channel.

It is one of the three channels that connect the Cebu Strait to the Camotes Sea:

  • the Mactan Channel (which separates Cebu from Mactan)
  • the Hilutangan Channel (which separates Mactan from Olango)
  • the Olango Channel (which separates Olango from Bohol).

The holotype of the sea snail Tosapusia sauternesensis was described in the channel.[1]

  1. ^ Fedosov, Alexander E.; Puillandre, Nicolas; Herrmann, Manfred; Dgebuadze, Polina; Bouchet, Philippe (2017). "Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179 (3): 541–626. Retrieved 2022-03-23.