![]() , river, c.200 mi (320 km) long, rising in the mountains of N Mindanao, the Philippines, and flowing SW to Liguasan Marsh. Its main rivers are the Mindanao (known as the Pulangi Pulangi The island is indented by several deep bays and has a large western peninsula, the Zamboanga or Sibuguey Peninsula. Apo, an active volcano and the highest point in the Philippines. ![]() ![]() The terrain is generally mountainous and heavily forested, rising to 9,690 ft (2,954 m) at Mt. , group of Muslim natives, numbering about 3.8 million, of Mindanao, the Sulu Archipelago, and Palawan in the Philippines and of Borneo, who were converted in the great missionary extension of Islam from India in the 15th and 16th cent. About one fifth of the island's population is Muslim (see Moros Moros ![]() 13,535,738), 36,537 sq mi (94,631 sq km), second largest of the Philippine islands, NE of Borneo.
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