Bataraza, Palawan

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Bataraza is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. Bataraza, formerly part of Brooke's Point until 1964, was named after Datu Bataraza Narrazid, a locally influential Muslim chieftain and father of the town's first mayor and former mayor of Brooke's Point, the late Datu Sapiodin Narrazid. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 41,458 people in 8,658 households. Main industries of Bataraza includes farming, fishing, and nickel mining and processing.

Contents 1 Geography 2 Barangays 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Geography

Bataraza is located on the southernmost tip of mainland Palawan, approximately 236 km from Puerto Princesa City and about 5 to 6 hours by land. It has total land area of 957 square kilometres.

Bataraza is situated some 775 kilometers southwest of Manila. It stretches approximately 80 kilometers in northeasterly to southwesterly direction between roughly 8.3 and 8.75 degrees latitude north of the equator.

Bataraza lies amidst the south Sulu Sea Malis River rounded at Cape Buliluyan and further extended up to Wangly River in the south western part of the mainland. It is bounded in the east by the Sulu Sea, in the west by a great mountain range, extending from Mount Mantalingahan (the highest peak in the province) to Mount Malitub, which serve as the divider between Bataraza and Rizal and in the southwest by the South China Sea.

[edit] Barangays

Bataraza is politically subdivided into 22 barangays:

Bono-Bono Bulalacao Buliluyan Culandanum Igang-Igang Inogbong Iwahig Malihud Malitub Marangas (Poblacion) Ocayan

Puring Rio Tuba Sandoval Sapa Sarong Sumbiling Tabud Tagnato Tagolango Taratak Tarusan

[edit] Trivia

• The largest pearl in the world, The Pearl of Lao-Tzu (also known as the "Pearl of Allah" and "Pearl of Death") was recovered here by a Filipino diver from a giant Tridacna (mollusk) under the Palawan Sea in 1934. The gem weighs 14 pounds and measures 9 1/2 inches long and 5 1/2 inches in diameter. As of May 1984, it was valued at US$42 million. It is believed to be 600 years old.

[edit] External links

• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information

Coordinates: 8°40′N 117°37′E