Suluan is an island barangay in the Philippines, in the municipality of Guiuan, Eastern Samar. The island was deemed to be the first site of anchorage for Ferdinand Magellan's Spanish Armada.
The name of the island is derived from the word 'sulo', the Waray-waray word for "torch" which the locals would have used during fishing at night. Suluan, therefore, means torch-bearing people in reference to the local fishermen. From afar, prior to landing, the Spanish Armada would have seen the torches the night before.
On March 17, 1521, Magellan's voyage dropped anchor on the island. Although Samar and Mindanao were their first land sightings from afar, Magellan's choice of anchoring on a much smaller island was meant as a security precaution as few people would have inhabited a small island such as Suluan.
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