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It is a low-latitude western boundary current that follows the eastern coast of the Philippine island group and its namesake, Mindanao. The MC forms from the North Equatorial Current (NEC) that flows from east to west between 10-20°N. As it travels west, the NEC reaches its western limit: the coast of the Philippines. [1]
The Rio Grande de Mindanao, also known as the Mindanao River, is the second-largest river system in the Philippines. Located on the southern island of Mindanao , with a total drainage area of 23,169 km 2 (8,946 sq mi), [ 2 ] draining the majority of the central and eastern portion of the island, and a total length of approximately 373 km (232 mi).
The longest river is the Cagayan River in northern Luzon, measuring about 520 kilometers (320 mi). [22] Manila Bay, [23] upon the shore of which the capital city of Manila lies, is connected to Laguna de Bay, [24] the largest lake in the Philippines, by the Pasig River. [25] Subic Bay, [26] Davao Gulf, [27] and the Moro Gulf are other important ...
The river ends in a small, sandy delta at the Gulf of Mexico. During portions of 2001 and 2002, the mouth of the Rio Grande was blocked by a sandbar. In the fall of 2003, the sandbar was cleared by high river flows around 7,063 cubic feet per second (200 m 3 /s). [5] The Rio Grande flows through a valley with diverse animal and plants communities.
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.
The Mindoro Suture Zone is a complex geological feature that formed as a result of the collision of two continental fragments: the North Palawan block and the Mindoro block. [3] This collision occurred in the upper Paleogene and lower Neogene time (around 30-15 million years ago) as the North Palawan block moved northward relative to the ...
When Pedro Medalla Sr. was elected in 1965 as representative of Occidental Mindoro, one of the bills he filed in Congress was the creation of the municipality of Rizal. Through his effort, Republic Act No. 5460 was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Ferdinand Marcos. Rizal became a municipality on April 3, 1969.