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Poverty incidence of Occidental Mindoro 10 20 30 40 50 2006 43.17 2009 35.88 2012 38.10 2015 41.66 2018 21.75 2021 23.00 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority Occidental Mindoro is an agricultural area devoted to the production of food. Its economic base is rice production (Oryza sativa culture), a Philippine staple crop. It is the leading activity and source of seasonal employment in the ...
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.
Looc, officially the Municipality of Looc (Tagalog: Bayan ng Looc), is a municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 7,802 people, making it the least populated municipality in the province. [3]
Also known as Occidental Mindoro's lone district, it has been represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines since 1952. [3] It first elected a representative provincewide at-large for the 2nd Congress of the Third Philippine Republic following the dissolution of the old Mindoro province under Republic Act No. 505 on June 13 ...
San Jose, officially the Municipality of San Jose (Tagalog: Bayan ng San Jose), is a municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, Philippines.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 153,267, [3] representing a third of the provincial population, and is the largest among cities (excluding Puerto Princesa City) and municipalities in the Mimaropa region.
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.
Occidental Mindoro Province — located on western Mindoro island, in the MIMAROPA administrative region & Luzon islands group of the Philippines. Subcategories This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
Prior to gaining separate representation, areas now under the jurisdiction of Occidental Mindoro were represented under the lone district of the undivided Mindoro Province from 1898 to 1951. The enactment of Republic Act No. 505 on June 13, 1950 split the old Mindoro Province into Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro , and provided each of ...