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Sunken Cemetery

Sunken Cemetery is a Registered Property, Province of Camiguin located at Catarman, Camiguin, Region X.

The cemetery is one of the places that got destroyed and driven underwater by the tragic volcano eruption in 1871. Historically, the cemetery was just part of a community guarded by a cotta (fortress) where the original church dedicated to San Roque and a convent was built during the early years of conversion in the province (Lluch, 2018).
It is the only sunken cemetery in the Philippines and the world. In 1982, a huge cross was erected near the place where the cemetery used to be.

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