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. 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. ... km redirects here. ... The City of Puerto Princesa is a first 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. The City of Manila (Filipino: Lungsod ng Maynila), or simply Manila, is the capital of the Philippines and one of the municipalities that comprise Metro Manila. ...

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 south of China. ...

Barangays

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

Rio Tuba is one of the populated barangays of Bataraza and known for its nickel mineral reserves. It is also in here where means of transport are available to reach most of the inner barangays of Bataraza. Nickel mining is a very important industry in the locality. The primary mine site of Rio Tuba Nickel Mining Corporation is located within its jurisdiction. Rio Tuba is one of the populated barangays in the Municipality of Bataraza in the Province of Palawan in the Philippines. ...

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.

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External links

• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information

Province of Palawan
City	Puerto Princesa City
Municipalities	Aborlan | Agutaya | Araceli | Balabac | Bataraza | Brooke's Point | Busuanga | Cagayancillo | Coron | Culion | Cuyo | Dumaran | El Nido | Kalayaan | Linapacan | Magsaysay | Narra | Quezon | Rizal | Roxas | San Vicente | Sofronio Española | Taytay

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