Maculabo Island
island in the Philippines
Maculabo Island or Macolabo Island is an island barangay in the Philippines in the municipality of Paracale, Camarines Norte. The island is part of the Calaguas group of islands while the barangay also includes the uninhabited Samur Island around 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) to the northwest in its jurisdiction. The island serves as a major stop-over going to Tinaga Island where the well-known long beach Mahabang Buhangin is located. The island is about 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) long. Locals reside on parts of the island with farming and fishing as their main source of income.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Maculabo Island” is island in the Philippines. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Maculabo, Island and island, not as a finished interpretation.
Why this record matters
The phrase “island in the Philippines” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6725775. Authority coordinates are 14.401, 122.812. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.
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This entry incorporates text from “Maculabo Island” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.