Southern Leyte is a province in the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region.
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12 Facts About Southern Leyte
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Southern Leyte comprised the third congressional district Leyte until it was made into an independent province in 1959.
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Southern Leyte includes Limasawa, an island to the south where the first Roman Catholic Mass in Philippine soil is believed to have taken place and thus considered to be the birthplace of Roman Catholicism in the Philippines.
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Province, being part of Southern Leyte island, is believed to be influenced by Datu Ete, ruler of the historic community of Mairete, meaning Land of Ete, which was centered in Tacloban.
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The area which is to be Southern Leyte is believed to have been occupied by animist Visayan ethnic groups from Bohol.
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Southern Leyte was trying to unify all guerrillas helping the Philippine Commonwealth troops during World War II.
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Southern Leyte occupies the southern quarter of the island of Leyte.
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Southern Leyte is characterized by relatively flat lands along the coastal areas where population centers lie, but rugged mountains towards the interior.
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Southern Leyte has two types of climate according to the Coronas Classification.
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Southern Leyte is subdivided into 18 municipalities and 1 city, all encompassed by a double legislative districts and further subdivided into 500 barangays.
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Southern Leyte ranked fifth in terms of population among the six provinces in Eastern Visayas with 9.
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Southern Leyte has a total of 11 seaports, two of which are declared as national ports, the Maasin and Liloan ports, and the 10 are municipal ports.
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