Masbate

American  

[mahs-bah-tuh] / mɑsˈbɑ tə /

noun

1. one of the central islands of the Philippines. 1,262 sq. mi. (3,269 sq. km).

2. a city on this island.

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Masbate British  

/ mæsˈbɑːtɪ /

noun

1. an island in the central Philippines, between Negros and SE Luzon: agricultural, with resources of gold, copper, and manganese. Pop (Masbate province): 707 668 (2000). Area: 4045 sq km (1562 sq miles)

2. the capital of this island, a port in the northeast. Pop: 71 441 (2000)

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Masbate

In the Philippines, an annual rodeo on the island province of Masbate is both a competition and a celebration of the country’s unique cowboy culture, with roots in the Spanish and American colonial eras.

From New York Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Cracks were also spotted in the concrete pillars of some business establishments, including grocery and drug stores in Masbate city’s downtown area, and in some houses, Dilao told The AP by telephone.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

Dozens of patients from a Masbate provincial hospital were evacuated but later brought back after the quake caused some cracks in the three-story building.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

“The first jolt was really strong followed by shaking that woke me up and my baby,” Red Cross officer MJ Oxemer told The Associated Press by telephone from the provincial capital of Masbate city.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2023

The datos Linao and Libot of Joló, and Sacahati of Tawi-Tawi, with thirteen vessels, scoured the coasts of Bohol, Leyte, and Masbate.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Emma Helen Blair