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Poverty incidence of Puerto Galera 10 20 30 40 50 2000 46.53 2003 25.64 2006 35.40 2009 23.88 2012 11.00 2015 7.89 2018 13.25 2021 16.21 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Port of Puerto Galera The traditional economy of the city used to be fishing and subsistence agriculture, but with the boom of tourism at the end of the 1970s, the service sector became more and more important and led ...
Puerto Galera features a natural harbor which also protects ships, yachts and bancas from strong typhoons sweeping in from the Pacific. Puerto Galera, known for white sand beaches and the accompanying honky tonk bar scene on some key beaches, is known for its dive sites with a biodiversity of marine life in and around the coral reefs.
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Punta Galera Airport Spanish: Aeropuerto Punta Galera, (ICAO: SCGA) is an airstrip located 62 kilometres (39 mi) west-northwest of La Unión, a city in the Los Ríos Region of Chile. The airstrip is on an isolated point on the Pacific coast. Limited overruns on either end are grass with a downslope to a dropoff into the ocean.
The new municipal government of San Teodoro was short lived. In 1903, together with Baco and Puerto Galera, San Teodoro was absorbed to become a barrio of Calapan as organized by the Philippine Commission headed by Gov. William H. Taft. In 1905, the new Philippine Commission Act No. 1280 decreed that the 15 municipalities of the entire island ...
From the bestselling author of “Black Cake” comes a story about an affluent Black New England family at the center of public spectacle following a home invasion where their son Baz was murdered.
Daily trips for scuba divers are made from Puerto Galera. The wreckage of a Spanish galleon that sunk in 1620 is located in the South of the passage. Most of the ship's cargo was salvaged from the wreckage between 1970 and 1990. Today, nothing remains of the wreck except for a few shards of porcelain and some larger pieces of terracotta jars.
Puerto Galera Biosphere Reserve 1977 2014 Puerto Galera Biosphere Reserve is situated on Mindoro Island, about 120 km south of Manila. Its 23,200 hectares make up the northern tip of Mindoro Island and are bounded to the north by the Verde Island Passage, to the west by the Camarong River and to the east by the municipality of San Teodoro. [107]