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Southern Leyte
Southern Leyte is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas[?] region. Its capital is Maasin City[?] and occupies the southern one-fourth of the island of Leyte. Leyte is bounded by the province of Leyte to the north, by Surigao Strait[?] to the east, Bohol Sea to the south, and Canigao Channel, across from Bohol, to the west.
Southern Leyte forms an important part of the inter-island transportation system of the country, with ferries transporting people and goods between Liloan[?] and Surigao del Norte[?] in Mindanao.
For a time, Southern Leyte was a part of Leyte province. The difficulty of managing the entire island from Tacloban[?], the capital of Leyte, suggested the need to separate the island into two provinces. A law was passed forming the province of Southern Leyte in 1959 and the province was inaugurated in 1960.
Limasawa[?], an island municipality to the south is believed to be the site of the first Christian mass in the far east, when Ferdinand Magellan landed there in 1521.
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