Santa Cruz is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 26,887 people in 5,407 households. A municipality (bayan in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Santa Cruz is politically subdivided into 11 barangays. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ...
OccidentalMindoro (Filipino: Kanlurang Mindoro, “Western Mindoro”; Spanish: MindoroOccidental) is a province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region in Luzon.
Its capital is Mamburao and occupies the western half of the island of Mindoro; Oriental Mindoro is at the eastern half.
OccidentalMindoro is a cultural melting pot, populated mostly by recent immigrants.