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The Water and Rivers Commission is a defunct agency of the Government of Western Australia. [1] Established on 1 January 1996, it was set up under the Water and Rivers Commission Act 1995 , to administer the Act and other legislation relevant to development and conservation of Western Australia 's water resources.
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.
Apo Reef is a coral reef system in the Philippines situated in the western waters of Occidental Mindoro province in the Mindoro Strait.Encompassing 34 km 2 (13 sq mi), it is considered the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system, and is the largest in the country. [1]
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.
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.
The history of Mindoro dates back before the Spanish time. Records have it that Chinese traders were known to be trading with Mindoro merchants. Trade relations with China where Mindoro was known as Mai started when certain traders from "Mai" brought valuable merchandise to Canton in 892 A.D. The geographic proximity of the island to China Sea ...
Poverty incidence of Rizal 10 20 30 40 50 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. ISSN 0117-1453. Archived (PDF ...
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.