Mimaropa(Region IV-B)

• Mimaropa, Region IV-B or MIMAROPA (Mindoro Oriental

& Occidental, Marinduque, Romblon, and Palawan) refers to
the cluster of emerald islands and islets stretching across the
warm tropical seas south of southern Luzon, composed of 2
cities, 71 municipalities and 1, 458 barangays.
• Mimaropa, together with Calabarzon, were officially
created with the partitioning of Southern Tagalog (Region
IV) into the two regions on May 17, 2002, with the
issuance of Executive Order No. 103 by then-President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo; for the purpose of promoting
efficiency in the government, accelerating social
GEOGRAPHICAL MAP OF MIMAROPA
GEOGRAPHY OF MARINDUQUE
 HISTORY

Marinduque is a heart-shaped island which lies between the Bondoc Peninsula at the south-
eastern part of Luzon and the island of Mindoro.
• The tale of Marinduque revolves around the tragic love story of Princess Mariing and
Gatduke. Mariing's father, the chieftain of their tribe, did not approve of their love and
ordered to behead Gatduke. Because of this, Mariing and Gatduke eloped and unfortunately
drowned. The locals believe the two lovers transformed into the island of Marinduque.

• Legacy of Princess marring and Gatduke

1. Princess Mariing – the princess of the tribe who fell in love with a commoner Gatduke
2. Gatduke – a commoner among the tribe whose love with the Princess was forbidden.
PORT OF MARINDUQUE
Destinations to Visit in Marinduque
Ditumabo Mother Falls
Marina Marinduque Hotel and Resort
FISTEVALS IN MARINDUQUE
• Moriones Festival
• The Moriones is a lenten festival held annually on Holy Week on the island
of Marinduque, Philippines. The "Moriones" are men and women in
costumes and masks replicating the garb of biblical Imperial Roman soldiers
as interpreted by locals.
• The people of Marinduque celebrate the Moriones Festival as a way of
atonement for their sins. The ceremony is a re-enactment of the biblical story
of Saint Longinus who was a Roman soldier who had one blind eye. It is
known that Saint Longinus struck Jesus on his side with his spear.
• Marinduque's Moriones festival is one of the most colorful festivals in the
country. The participants use morion masks to depict the Roman soldiers
and Syrian mercenaries within the story of the Passion of the Christ.
FOOD AND DELICASIES
 POINT OF ACCESSS
• There are three sea ports serving the Marinduque province — Balanacan
Port in Mogpog, Buyabod Port in Santa Cruz, and Cawit Port in Boac.
Balanacan Port is the main seaport for cargoes and passengers from
Lucena, Quezon. The two ferry companies serving this route are Starhorse
and Montenegro Shipping.
• At Talao-talao port in Lucena, there are ferries / RORO (Montenegro
shipping lines or Starhorse shipping lines) bound to Marinduque (you can
bring along your private vehicle), choose from two destination bound to
Balanacan port in Mogpog or Cawit Boac, again it will take another 3
hours reaching Mariduque.
 Occidental Mindoro

• Occidental Mindoro (Tagalog: Kanlurang Mindoro), officially the Province of

Occidental Mindoro (Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Kanlurang Mindoro), is a
province in the Philippines located in the Mimaropa region. The province
occupies the western half of the island of Mindoro. Its capital is Mamburao, but
the largest municipality is Sablayan occupying almost half of the entire
province. As of 2020, Occidental Mindoro has 525,354 inhabitants.
• The province is bordered on the east by the province of Oriental Mindoro, and
on the south by the Mindoro Strait. The South China Sea is to the west of the
province and Palawan is located to the southwest, across the Mindoro Strait.
Batangas is to the north, separated by the Verde Island Passage, a protected
marine area and the center of the world's marine biodiversity.
 HISTORY OF Occidental Mindoro

• Mindoro Island was originally known to the ancients as Ma-i. It was

formally called Mait, and known to the Chinese traders before the
coming of the Spanish. Its existence was mentioned in the old
Chinese chronicles in 775 A.D. and more elaborately in 1225. It
was a major anchorage in the Southeast Asia trade route during the
pre-Philippines period. Chinese, Arab and Indian merchants traded
with the natives.
Destinations to Visit in Occidental Mindoro
 FESTIVALS OF OCCIDENTAL MINDORO

ARAWATAN FESTIVAL
 FOOD AND DELICACIES

Ginataang Puso ng Saging Adobong Pugita

 TOWNS IN OCCIDENTAL MINDORO

• Mamburao
• Paluan
• Rizal
• San Jose
• Looc
• Magsaysay
• Sablayan
• Calintaan
• Santa Cruz
 Oriental Mindoro
Oriental Mindoro (Tagalog: Silangang Mindoro), officially the Province of Oriental Mindoro (Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Silangang Mindoro
(Oriental Mindoro)), is a province in the Philippines located on the island of Mindoro under Mimaropa region in Luzon, about 140 kilometres
(87 mi) southwest of Manila. The province is bordered by the Verde Island Passage and the rest of Batangas to the north, by Marinduque,
Maestre de Campo (or known as Sibale but official name is Concepcion) Island, Tablas Strait and the rest of Romblon to the east, by
Semirara and the rest of Caluya Islands, Antique to the south, and by Occidental Mindoro to the west. Calapan, the only city in the island, is
the provincial capital and Mimaropa's regional center.
Oriental Mindoro is touted as the country's emerging eco-tourism destination. In 2005, the Philippines was found to
be the center of marine fish biodiversity and the home of the most diverse marine ecosystem in the world,[4] by
American biologists Kent Carpenter and Victor Springer. Most of the endemic species in the Philippines are found
in the Verde Island Passage between Mindoro island and the main island of Luzon. The passage houses 2,983
individual species of algae, corals, crustaceans, mollusks, fishes, marine reptiles, and marine mammals, based on
a study conducted by Carpenter and Springer in 2005.
UNESCO declared Puerto Galera a biosphere reserve[5] under its Man and the Biosphere Programme in the 1970s.
The Verde Island Passage is at the apex of the so-called Coral Triangle – the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia
– which has the distinction of being the "center of the center of the world's marine biodiversity" and the "center of
the center of marine shorefish biodiversity"
 Histoy of Oriental Mindoro

• Japanese occupation era[edit]

• A Japanese force landed on northeastern Mindoro in the Philippine
Islands on 27 February 1942.
• Almost three years later, after the invasion of Mindoro by Allied
forces, they proceeded to land to Bongabong and heading to and
capturing Calapan, the capital of the united Mindoro Province at the
time on 24 January 1945.
Destinations to Visit in Oriental Mindoro
FESTIVAL OF ORIENTAL MINDORO
• Santo Niño de Calapan Bahaghari
festival
 FOOD AND DELICACIES
•
List of oriental mindoro MunicipalitiesAngat
Puerto Galera
San Teodoro
Baco
Naujan
Victoria
Socorro
Pola
Pinamalayan
Gloria
Bansud
Bongabong
Roxas
Mansalay
Bulalacao.
 PALAWAN
• Palawan (/pəˈlɑːwən/, Tagalog: [pɐˈlaʊan]), officially the Province of Palawan (Cuyonon
: Probinsya i'ang Palawan; Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Palawan), is an archipelagic province
of the Philippines that is located in the region of Mimaropa. It is the largest province in
the country in terms of total area of 14,649.73 km2 (5,656.29 sq mi). The capital and
largest city is Puerto Princesa wherein it is geographically grouped but administered
independently from the province. Palawan is known as the Philippines' Last Frontier[5]
and as the Philippines' Best Island
• The islands of Palawan stretch between Mindoro island in the northeast and Borneo in
the southwest. It lies between the South China Sea and the Sulu Sea. The province is
named after its largest island, Palawan Island (09°30′N 118°30′E), measuring 450
kilometers (280 mi) long, and 50 kilometers (31 mi) wide
• In 2019, it was proposed to divide Palawan into three separate provinces, though it was
rejected by the local population in a 2021 plebiscite.
 HISTORY OF PALAWAN
• The early history of Palawan was determined by a team of researchers led by Robert Bradford Fox. They found evidence in the Tabon Caves
that humans have lived in Palawan for more than 50,000 years. They also found human bone fragments, from an individual known as Tabon
Man, in the municipality of Quezon, as well as tools and other artifacts
• Two articulated phalanx bones of a tiger, besides another phalanx piece, were found amidst an assemblage of other animal bones and stone
tools in Ille Cave near the village of New Ibajay. The other animal fossils were ascribed to macaques, deer, bearded pigs, small mammals,
lizards, snakes and turtles. From the stone tools, besides the evidence for cuts on the bones, and the use of fire, it would appear that early
humans had accumulated the bones.[11] Additionally, the condition of the tiger subfossils, dated to approximately 12,000 to 9,000 years ago,
differed from other fossils in the assemblage, dated to the Upper Paleolithic. The tiger subfossils showed longitudinal fracture of the
cortical bone due to weathering, which suggests that they had post-mortem been exposed to light and air. Tiger parts were commonly used
as amulets in South and Southeast Asia, so it may be that the tiger parts were imported from elsewhere, as is the case with tiger canine teeth
, which were found in Ambangan sites dating to the 10th to 12th centuries in Butuan, Mindanao. On the other hand, the proximity of Borneo
and Palawan also makes it likely that the tiger had colonized Palawan from Borneo before the Early Holocene
• Using the work of Von den Driesch,[14] all chosen anatomical features of appendicular elements' anatomical features which were chosen,
besides molars, were measured to distinguish between taxa that had close relationships, and see morphometric changes over ages, though
not for pigs or deer. For the latter two, cranial and mandibular elements, besides teeth of deer from Ille Cave were compared with samples of
the Philippine brown deer (Cervus mariannus), Calamian hog deer (Axis calamianensis), and Visayan spotted deer (Cervus alfredi), and thus
two taxa of deer have been identified from the fossils: Axis and Cervus.[15] Remains of pigs were compared with the Eurasian (Sus scrofa)
and Palawanese wild boar (Sus ahoenobarbus). It is known that the Eurasian wild boar was imported as a domesticate to the islands from
mainland Southeast Asia to the islands during the Terminal Holocene
• Palawan was a major site for the Maritime Jade Road, one of the most extensive sea-based trade networks of a single geological material in
the prehistoric world, operating for 3,000 years from 2000 BCE to 1000 CE
 ACCOMODATION OF PALAWAN
• LUXURY RESORT & HOTEL
Destinations to Visit in Palawan
 FESTIVAL OF PALAWAN

• BARAGATAN FESTIVAL
FOOD AND DELICACIES
POINT OF ACCES
 TOWNS IN PALAWAN

• Palawan comprises 433 barangays in 23 municipalities and the capital City of

Puerto Princesa.
 ROMBLON
• Romblon, officially the Municipality of Romblon, is a 3rd class municipality and
capital of the province of Romblon, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has
a population of 40,554 people[3]. The archipelagic municipality is the capital of
Romblon province and the seat of its provincial government. It includes Romblon
Island as well as the nearby islands of Lugbon, Alad and Cobrador.
• Romblon island is one of the three major islands of the province, aside from
Sibuyan Island and Tablas Island. As the capital of the province. Its natives mostly
speak Romblomanon or Ini language. Romblon is known for its local marble industry
and is the second biggest producer of the mineral in the country. It is also a tourist
destination because of its unspoiled beaches and Spanish-era twin forts.
 HISTORY OF ROMBLON
Early history
• The first inhabitants of Romblon were the Negritos tribes of Panay and the Mindoro Mangyan tribes. The
discovery of hanging coffins and artistic material in the caves of the island of Banton demonstrates the
existence of a rich and ancient civilization and Aboriginal culture.
Spanish colonial era
• The islands were first visited by Spanish conquistador Martin de Goiti in late 1569, and were thereafter
organized by the Spanish into encomiendas. The encomienda of Donblon (Romblon), established on April 24,
1571, was granted to Don Gonzalo Riquel. In the first census done by Spanish navigator Miguel de Loarca in
1582, Romblon Island was shown to have 240 residents engaged in wax gathering.[6] At this time, Miguel de
Loarca recorded the island's name as "Lomlon" or "Doblon".[7] In the local Visayan dialect, the word means a
bird warming an egg in its nest. It was also known as Domblon before the present name was adopted
• In 1631, during the term of Spanish Governor-General Juan Niño de Tabora, Romblon was established as a
pueblo, making it one of the two oldest settlements in the province, the other being Banton located in the
north of the province.[6] In 1635, the island of Romblon was evangelized by Spanish Recollect fathers and
became a dependency of the Captaincy General of the Philippines. Their fortified church is the present
cathedral of Romblon. It received its first Spanish missionaries in the 17th century. During the 17th and 18th
centuries, it was often ravaged by Moros.[8] Two forts were erected by the Spanish, San Andrés and Santiago.
• It was organized into a Comandancia (a province or district under military control) by the Spanish in 1853
American invasion era
• In 1901, the American occupation saw the establishment of a civilian government in the town.[10] Ten new barrios were
created while three existing barrios were also abolished. These include Aglomiom, which was merged to Sablayan
due to its small population, Embarcacion, which was attached again to El Pueblo or Poblacion, and the inland barrio
of Cogon, which was reorganized and split into five barrios of Tambac, Ilauran, Macalas, Lamao, and Agbaluto
(referred collectively as TIMLA, from their initial letters) while barrio Alfonso XIII was renamed as Li-o.
• The 10 additional barrios were Bagacay, Agbudia, Agtongo, Embarcacion, Maria Cristina (renamed as Sawang) and
the five TIMLA barrios. Agtongo was created into a separate barrio in 1916, taken from Cajimos. In 1918, those
engaged in the maritime industry were designated separately as a distinct barrio known as Embarcacion, which was
annexed again to barrio Poblacion or El Pueblo in 1939. Agbudia was the last barrio to be created after being taken
from Guimpingan in 1939. Meanwhile, the two barrios Majabangbaybay and Sogod, located in Tablas island, were
returned to Badajoz (now San Agustin), and were abolished as independent barrios and attached as sitios of barrio
Guinpuc-an (Carmen) in 1901.
Japanese occupation era
• During World War II, an American force landed in the island on March 11, 1945, and liberated it from the occupying
Japanese forces. By March 18, the entire province was liberated from the Japanese. A monument located near the
beach in Sawang commemorates this.
Philippine independence
• Main articles: Treaty of Manila (1946) and Sovereignty of the Philippines
• The Republic of the Philippines became an independent sovereign nation on July 4. i946.sffsd The island barrio of
Nagoso was renamed Cobrador in 1960 and the urban barangay of Poblacion was split into four separate barangays,
named simply as Barangays 1, 2, 3, and 4 in 1975
 ACCOMODATION
• Horizon Hotel Romblon Sunset Cover Beach & Dive Resort
 FESTIVALS
• Biniray Festival Mimaropa Festival
Destinations to Visit in Romblon
FOOD AND DELICACIES
Point of Access to Romblon
• PREPARED BY:
• KEN ROSE B. BAGAS
AND
• JOHN MARK FULLONA

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