Samar Sea

Geographical location

The Samar Sea is a narrow strait in the northeast of the Visayan Islands in the central part of the Philippines. It occupies an area of ​​3870 km ² and has a relatively shallow straits of the Philippine Sea. The average water depth is less than 200 meters. in the administrative regions of Bicol and Eastern Visayas a.

It sets in the west in the Visayan Sea about the north of the San Bernardino Strait into the Philippine Sea and the South East over the San Juanico Strait in the Gulf of Leyte.

The Samar Sea is surrounded by the following islands: Samar in the east, in the south of Leyte, Masbate to the west, Ticao in the northwest and Luzon in the north.

In the south of the island of Biliran Samar Sea located to the north of it the smaller Maripipi, Almagro, Camandag, Capinahan, Caygan, Dalutan, Karikiki, Libucan Daco, Santo Niño, Sambawan and Tagapul - on Iceland. In the northern part of Samar Sea are the Naranjo Islands and the islands Capul and Dalupiri. At the transition to the Visayan Sea is Higatangan Iceland.