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Rows of dense green coffee plants cover rolling hills on a coffee plantation on Basilan Island, Philippines, with distant mountains and water visible on the horizon. Basilan, Philippines
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Rows of dense green coffee plants cover rolling hills on a coffee plantation on Basilan Island, Philippines, with distant mountains and water visible on the horizon.
Basilan Island Coffee plantation, Basilan Island, Philippines.

Basilan

island, Philippines
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Basilan, island and city, southern Philippines, in the Celebes Sea. Basilan island lies 5 miles (8 km) off the southern tip of the Zamboanga Peninsula of Mindanao, across the Basilan Strait. It is the largest and northernmost island of the Sulu Archipelago. Most of the island consists of rugged or rolling forested uplands, with several volcanic peaks exceeding heights of 2,000 feet (600 metres). Short streams provide a roughly radial pattern of drainage. Since about...

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