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Occidental Mindoro covers a total area of 5,865.71 square kilometres (2,264.76 sq mi) [5] occupying the western section of the Mindoro island, and includes outlying islands in the northwest. General land surface features that characterize Occidental Mindoro are mountains, rivers, hills, valleys, wide plains and some small fresh water lakes.
Mindoro is the seventh largest and eighth-most populous island in the Philippines. With a total land area of 10,571 km 2 ( 4,082 sq.mi ), it has a population of 1,408,454, as of the 2020 census. It is located off the southwestern coast of Luzon and northeast of Palawan. Mindoro is divided into two provinces: Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro.
Apo Reef can is about 28 km (17 mi) west of the coast of Mindoro.It is separated from the main island by the Apo East Pass of the Mindoro Strait. [3] Politically, the reef lies within the jurisdiction of the Province of Occidental Mindoro in Region IV-B of the Philippines and, more specifically, of the Municipality of Sablayan.
Poverty incidence of Rizal 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 2000 62.46 2003 54.97 2006 48.10 2009 36.04 2012 31.16 2015 36.47 2018 21.29 2021 30.07 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority References ^ Municipality of Rizal | (DILG) ^ "2015 Census of Population, Report No. 3 – Population, Land Area, and Population Density" (PDF). Philippine Statistics Authority. Quezon City, Philippines. August 2016 ...
This area, which also includes Mount Calavite, is a habitat of various flora and fauna, such as the rare Mindoro tamaraw and the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba platenae). [6] Paluan has a 18,016.19 hectares (44,519.0 acres) of land classified as National Integrated Protected Areas System (NIPAS) area.
The Mindoro rain forests ecoregion (WWF ID:IM0130) covers the island of Mindoro, which lies between the island of Luzon and the Palawan Archipelago in the Philippines.The island has been subject to heavy commercial logging, with the only original forests remaining on the high ridge of the central mountain range.
July 7, 1975 – Region XII is created, and some regions of Mindanao are reorganized. [3] July 25, 1975 – Regions IX and XII are declared as Autonomous Regions in Western and Central Mindanao, respectively. [4] August 21, 1975 – Region IX is divided into Sub-Region IX-A and Sub-Region IX-B. Some regions in Mindanao are reorganized. [5]
View of the Iglit and Baco mountains from Aguas, Rizal The natural park lies in the south-central area of Mindoro and is administratively divided across the municipalities of Sablayan, Calintaan, Rizal and San Jose in Occidental Mindoro, and the municipalities of Bongabong, Bansud, Gloria, and Mansalay in Oriental Mindoro.