Mindoro
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Philippines | |
| Geographical location | 12 ° 59 ′ N , 121 ° 10 ′ E | |
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| surface | 9 735 km² | |
| Highest elevation |
Mount Halcón 2582 m |
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| Residents | 1,000,340 (2000) 103 inhabitants / km² |
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Mindoro is an island in the western part of the Philippines .
population
According to the 2000 census, the island has over 1 million people speaking Tagalog . The largest city is Calapan on the north coast with over 100,000 inhabitants.
geography
With an area of 9,735 km², Mindoro is the seventh largest island in the Philippines, together with the minor islands it covers 10,244.50 km². The island extends over 110 km in north-south direction and forms a headland to the northwest. It is about 80 km wide in an east-west direction. A ridge that also runs in a north-south direction separates the east and west coast. The highest mountain is the Halcon in the north with 2,582 m, in the south the Baco rises . In the northeast, not far from the coast, is the 10 km long Naujan Lake.
In the northeast lies the main Philippine island of Luzon . Just off the northeast coast are the small islands of Verde and Maricaban , on the busy Isla Verde Strait , and the Calavite Strait separates Mindoro from the Lubang Islands in the northwest.
The Mindoro Strait extends to the west with the Nanga Islands and the larger island of Busuanga . The waters just offshore, in front of the Apo Reef , are also called the Apo East Passage .
In the south, the island of Ilin is only separated by a narrow, approximately 500 m wide arm of the sea. In the south, the start Sulu Sea , in the southeast of the Tablas Strait and to the east the Sibuyan Sea and the island of Marinduque and Romblonen .
administration
Mindoro is part of the Luzon archipelago , which, together with the other two groups Visayas in the center and Mindanao in the south, forms the island state of the Philippines.
The island is divided into two provinces: Oriental Mindoro with the capital Calapan and Occidental Mindoro with Mamburao .
On June 13, 1950, Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro became independent provinces of the Philippines .
Both provinces belong together with the provinces Aurora , Batangas , Cavite , Laguna , Marinduque , Palawan , Quezon , Rizal and Romblon to the Philippine region IV. Both provinces are combined together with Romblon and Marinduque to the district IV-B or MIMARO (formerly MIMAROPA) .
Attractions
On Mindoro Island, these places are worth visiting: Aroma Beach , Laymon Beach , White Island , Lake Naujan , Puerto Galera and the Tamaraw Falls . In addition, there is the small diving island Pandan Island on the west coast in front of the cargo port town of Sablayan . From here you have the shortest ship route to the Apo Reef , which is considered to be one of the world's best dive sites .
nature
There are a total of three national parks on the island, the Mount Iglit Baco National Park , the Lake Naujan National Park and the Mount Calavite Wildlife Sanctuary , the rare animal species such as the tamarau , the Mindoro cuckoo , the great Mindoro fruit pigeon , the Mindoro pustular pig , the Mindoro rat and the Mindoro dagger serve as habitat. Also Panay monitor lizard were seen. A breeding station for the largest mammal in the Philippines, the Tamarau, has been set up in the municipality of Rizal .
economy
Rice , coconut , fruit , wheat and vegetables are Mindoro's agricultural products.
Marble , gypsum , feldspar , manganese , copper and barite occur in the form of mineral resources.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dive Areas - Philippines , Globetrotter Travel Service, accessed October 21, 2010
- ↑ Diving in the Philippines ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , philippinen-tauchen.com, accessed October 21, 2010
