Mactan

Mactan or Maktancitation needed is a densely populated island positioned a few kilometres from Cebu Island in the Philippines. The island is part of Cebu Province and it's miles divided into Lapu-Lapu City and the municipality of Cordova. The island is separated from Cebu by the Mactan Channel that is crossed via bridges: the Marcelo Fernan Bridge and the Mactan-Mandaue Bridge.

The island covers a few 65 rectangular kilometres and is domestic to a few 470,000 people, making it the country's most densely populated island. Along with Olango Island Group, the isles are administered as 1 town and a municipality masking 75.25 square kilometres. The island turned into already a thriving agreement before it turned into colonized with the aid of Spain inside the 16th century. Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived at the island in 1521 and have become concerned in warfare some of the kingdoms, simplest to be killed in war via the warriors of Datu Lapu-Lapu, the sovereign within the island. However, oral way of life additionally dictates that the island wherein the Battle of Mactan would possibly have taken region in is Poro Island within the northeast rather.