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Encyclopedia > Brooke's Point, Palawan

Brooke's Point is a 1st class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines. Named after its founder Sir James Brooke, the municipality promotes ecotourism. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 48,928 people in 9,634 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_palawan_brooke's_point. ... 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. ... Ecotourism means ecological tourism, where ecological has both environmental and social connotations. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...


Barangays

Brooke's Point is politically subdivided into 18 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. ...

  • Amas
  • Aribungos
  • Barong-barong
  • Calasaguen
  • Imulnod
  • Ipilan
  • Maasin
  • Mainit
  • Malis
  • Mambalot
  • Oring-oring
  • Pangobilian
  • Poblacion I
  • Poblacion II
  • Salogon
  • Samareñana
  • Saraza
  • Tubtub
  • Philip

External links

  • Philippine Standard Geographic Code
  • 2000 Philippine Census Information

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Palawan Province (133 words)
Palawan, an archipelago in itself, stretches southwest of Luzon almost as far as Borneo, forming one of the four sides of the Sulu Sea.
A surviving fortress church in Cuyo with cannon on its four towers bears witness that Palawan was a regular route of the Moro pirates.
Palawan produces maize, rice, coconuts, cashews, natural gas and oil, and huge amounts of fish.
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