Moro Gulf

noun

1. a gulf of the Celebes Sea on the SW side of Mindanao, in the Philippines.

Example Sentences

The worst-hit area was Maguindanao’s Kusiong village, which lies between the foothills of Mount Minandar and the Moro Gulf.

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Lying between the Moro Gulf and Mount Minandar, Kusiong was among the hardest hit by the 1976 catastrophe and the village never forgot the tragedy.

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In August 1976, an 8.1-magnitude earthquake and a tsunami in the Moro Gulf that struck around midnight left thousands of people dead and devastated coastal provinces in one of the deadliest natural disasters in Philippine history.

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