Tanguingui Island (Iloilo)
Tanguingui is a small, uninhabited island in northeastern Iloilo, Philippines. It is a minor island politically administered by the municipality of Carles and one of the easternmost islands in the Islas de Gigantes archipelago. There is a lighthouse on the island.Location and geography
Tanguingui is a small cay in the Visayan Sea. It is east of Panay Island and almost directly north of Bantayan Island. Flat and sandy, it is east-southeast of Gigantes Sur and is part of the Islas de Gigantes island group.Lighthouse
According to the Faros Españoles de Ultramar, Tanguingui was one of the 27 major lighthouses of the Philippines during the Spanish occupation of the Philippines. In 1903, the US government built a lighthouse on Tanguingui. The current lighthouse is a black steel structure high.
