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. Image File history File links Official seal of Bataraza, Palawan. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Palawan is an island province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region in Luzon. ... Brookes Point is a 1st class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

Geography

Map of Palawan showing the location of Barataza

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. Image File history File links Ph_locator_palawan_bataraza. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer), symbol: km is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words χίλια (khilia) = thousand and μέτρο (metro) = count/measure). ... Puerto Princesa City is a 1st class city in the province of Palawan, Philippines. ...

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. Manila (Filipino: Maynila) is the capital of the Philippines. ...

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. The Sulu Sea is a large sea in the southwestern area of the Philippines. ... Rizal is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. ... The South China Sea, showing surrounding countries and neighbouring seas and oceans The South China Sea is a marginal sea, part of the Pacific Ocean, encompassing an area from Singapore to the Strait of Taiwan of around 3,500,000 km². It is the largest sea body after the five...

Barangays

Bataraza is politically subdivided into 22 barangays: A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...

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.

Nuclei from Toba Pearl Island, Japan A pearl is a hard, rounded object produced by certain animals, primarily mollusks such as oysters. ...

External links

• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information