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height of between 100 and 200 metres (330 and 660 ft) above sea level and divides the channel into two passages. At the head of the bay in
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Dumanquilas Bay covers an area of about 26,000 hectares (64,000 acres) with depths of between 12 and 120 feet (3.7 and 36.6 m). It is about 18 kilometres (11 mi) wide at its entrance between Lapat Point, the easternmost point of
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