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	Baco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Baco, Oriental Mindoro is a municipality in the Philippines
		Baco is the Portuguese and Spanish name for the god Bacchus, god of wine in Roman mythology.
		Baco is a mix drink of Bacardi rum and cola.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baco (105 words)

	Oriental Mindoro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oriental Mindoro is a province of the Philippines located in the MIMAROPA region in Luzon.
		Its capital is Calapan City and occupies the eastern half of the island of Mindoro; Occidental Mindoro is at the western half.
		Oriental Mindoro is famous among tourists for Puerto Galera.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oriental_Mindoro (253 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		It is bounded on the north by Verde Island and the Verde Passage, on the east by Maestro de Campo Island and Tablas Strait, on the south by Semirara Island near Pandarodan bay, and on the west by the province of Occidental Mindoro.
		Strains of the Mangyan dialect spoken are Arayan, Alagnan, Buhid, Hunuo, and Tadyawan.
		Oriental Mindoro is composed of 15 municipalities, with Calapan City as the capital of the province.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=description&province=21 (692 words)

	GlobalPinoy, Travel - Oriental Mindoro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Oriental Mindoro shares the eastern half of the large island of Mindoro Island.
		Oriental Mindoro is famous for it's rich marine life and colorful coral reefs.
		Access to Oriental Mindoro from Manila is by a two and a half hour land trip to Batangas City or by a two-hour ferryboat ride either to Calapan or Puerto Galera.
	www.globalpinoy.com /travel/province/orimindoro.php (726 words)

	Oriental Mindoro Province, Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Oriental Mindoro occupies the eastern part of the island of Mindoro.
		It is bounded on the north by the Verde Island Passage, on the east by Tablas Strait, on the west by Occidental Mindoro, and on the south by Semirara Island.
		The plains stretch from Baco, Calapan, Naujan, and Victoria in the north, Pinamalayan and Bongabong in the middle, and Roxas to Mansalay in the south.
	home.comcast.net /~maesteban/island_groups/luzon/region4b/ormindoro/ormindoroprofile.htm (524 words)

	Mindoro ® Channel
		Mindoro, the seventh largest island in the Philippines, was founded on February 2,1921, by the members of the Spanish mission.
		In 1950, the island was divided into two separate and autonomous provinces through Republic Act No.505, designating the eastern portion of the island as Oriental Mindoro, with Calapan as its capital, and the western part as Occidental Mindoro, with Mamburao as its capital.
		It is a re-enactment of the first historical trade and cultural contact between the natives of the island of MA-l (Mindoro) and traders from China.
	users.cjb.net /mindoro/aboutus.htm (1231 words)

	The Mangyans in Mindoro
		Occidental Mindoro is the western part of the island of Mindoro, south of Batangas.
		It is bounded on the north by the Calavite Passage, on the east by Oriental Mindoro, on the west by ApoEast Pass, and on the south by the Mindoro Strait.
		In the early years, Mindoro was administered as part of Bonbon, now Batangas.Early in the 17th century, the island was separated from Bonbon and orga- nized into a corregimiento.
	www.angelfire.com /mac/aye/mangyan.html (2581 words)

	Marco Vincent
		Mindoro is the next biggest island to the south of Manila.
		It is divided into the provinces of Mindoro Occidental, the western part, and Mindoro Oriental, the eastern part.
		In nature-blessed Oriental Mindoro, you can choose your own beach among the many that abound, from fawn beige to powdery white.
	www.marcovincent.com /mindoro.htm (531 words)

	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Famous For (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The foremost asset of Oriental Mindoro, Puerto Galera is blessed with one of the world’s most beautiful natural harbors.
		Held every March 18 to 19 in Baco, Mindoro Oriental, the festival is a celebration of the abundance of bananas.
		Festivities coincide with the town fiesta held in honor of the patron, St. Joseph.
	www.tourism.gov.ph /explore_phil/place_details.asp?content=famousefor&province=21 (506 words)

	Mangyan school ... - Nov. 06, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		BACO, Oriental Mindoro -- A relevant education is seen as an improvement in the culture and life of the Mangyan indigenous people as well as their safeguard from being taken advantage of, particularly on matters of their ancestral land.
		The hope for a brighter life brought more than a decade ago by lay volunteers, mostly educators, to the Alangan-Mangyan at the foot of Mount Halcon, however, is now seriously counting on divine intervention for the Mangyan school to survive, said Sally Melendrez-Valenton.
		In the early 1990s, she founded the Vocation Club that responded to the request of Oriental Mindoro Bishop Warlito Cajandig for an outreach program for the natives in Sitio Banilad in Barangay Dulangan III.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2003/nov/06/text/reg_10-1-p.htm (903 words)

	About Oriental Mindoro - Orientalmindoro.com
		The province´s varied topgraphy is dominated by rugged mountain ranges from the west and fertile valleys towards the eastern coast.
		In the early 17th century, the island of Mindoro was separated from bonbon (now Batangas) and organized into a corregimiento.
		The province has abundant mineral resources asuch as gold in the Baco and Bongabon rivers, and coal at the northwest area of Mt. Halcon.
	www.orientalmindoro.com /about.asp (500 words)

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		Oriental Mindoro is one of the 2 provinces of the
		Baco, Oriental Mindoro is dominated by a rugged to mountainous terrain.
		Rice yields obtained at Baco, Oriental Mindoro were about the same for the 3 types of farming systems.
	www.cipav.org.co /lrrd/lrrd14/6/mend146.htm (4219 words)

	Missing Mt. Halcon mountaineer found dead - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		BACO, Mindoro Oriental, Philippines -- BACO, Oriental Mindoro -- Rescuers have found the decomposing body of a woman mountaineer who had been reported missing 13 days ago while trying to catch up with fellow climbers to Mount Halcon in Oriental Mindoro.
		Prana Escalante, 21, a graduating nursing student of the University of Santo Tomas (UST) (not University of the Philippines as earlier posted-INQ7.net ed) and member of the UST Mountaineering Club, was sighted on Wednesday midnight by Mangyan members of the rescue team in Ilog Lantuyang, between Barangays Lantuyang and Mayabig, here.
		The body was brought to the Baco rural health unit beside the municipal hall for examination.
	news.inq7.net /nation/index.php?index=1&story_id=17869 (760 words)

	Puerto Galera Hotels and Resorts - TravelMart.net - GUARANTEED LOW RATES on your Palawan Hotels Resorts Accomodation
		Much like the province of Oriental Mindoro to which it belongs, Puerto Galera is very rich in history.
		By the 17th century, under its Spanish colonizers, the island of Mindoro was organized into a coregimiento, with Puerto Galera as the capital.
		After more than two centuries, the capital of the province was transferred to Calapan (now a city and the present capital of Oriental Mindoro), which was geograpically blessed with wide agricultural lands.
	www.travelmart.net /philippinespuertogalera/puertogalerahotels.htm (1821 words)

	More lumber seized in Mindoro, Albay - INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		BACO, Mindoro Oriental, Philippines -- Some 300 board feet of abandoned lauan and tangile (Philippine mahogany) lumber were confiscated by members of the 409th Provincial Mobile Group of the Oriental Mindoro Provincial Police Office on Thursday in Ilog Tiboy, Barangay Sta.
		Juan dela Cruz, Department of Environment and Natural Resources head in Oriental Mindoro, however, reiterated that there was no illegal logging in the province.
		Fallaria said that since he was assigned to Baco town years back, he had been receiving information on illegal logging in their place.
	beta.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=27424 (774 words)

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		The landscape is spectacular with a cluster of ten mountains, dominated by Mount Baco (2,400m) and Mount Iglit (1,432m), locally known as Mount Mangibok, intersected with deep gorges.
		The eastern (Oriental Mindoro) exposure receives an even distribution of precipitation throughout the year, with a mean monthly rain fall of 178mm to 254mm, and typhoons during October to November.
		The western (Occidental Mindoro) side is shadowed by mountains from the northeast monsoon and has a distinct dry season during November to April, with rainfall concentrated into an eight month period.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/1031v.htm (1365 words)

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		The people of Baco were once blinded, captivated, under the bondage and slavery of Satan, in spite of the existence of different religious groups.
		The first propagation work in Baco, Oriental Mindoro happened in the 1990’s but the church was not established.
		Even the mayor of the municipality of Baco was opened especially concerning the ground of the church and came to appreciate it.
	www.churchesofthephilippines.org /propagation.htm (2551 words)

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		Badly affected were Calapan City and the towns of Naujan, Victoria, Pola, Pinamalayan, and Baco in Oriental Mindoro, and various areas in Quezon, Camarines Norte, Catan-duanes, and Albay.
		Of the five fatalities, four were residents of Pagbilao and Atimonan, Quezon, and the other one of Oriental Mindoro.
		Reports reaching the National Disaster Coordinating Center in Camp Aguinaldo in Quezon City also disclosed that the situation in many areas of Oriental Mindoro that were previously affected by heavy flooding started to normalize as flood waters subsided during the last 24 hours.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/12/11/MAIN2005121151442.html (541 words)

	About Mindoro Province, Philippines
		Oriental Mindoro can be reached through land and sea transport.
		A roll-on-roll-off (RO-RO) ferry is convenient for those wishing to take their private vehicles.
		In Mindoro Oriental, a number of jeepneys ply the capital from the neighboring towns and to the interior.
	www.islandsaccommodations.com /places/mindoro.htm (1282 words)

	Feature: The Mindoro tamaraw is vanishing
		Captive breeding in a 280-hectare gene pool farm in Aguas, Rizal, Mindoro Occidental had led to four births recorded in 1990, 1992, 1996 and 1997.
		Iglit-Baco National Park and Mt. Aruyan in Sablayan, Occidental Mindoro, where 260 heads were sighted and counted as of April 1998.
		Consisting of five to 12 members each, the teams roam the grasslands of the two mountain ranges which straddle the boundary of Occidental and Oriental Mindoro.
	www.thepinoy.com /sites/archipelago/html/navarro_mindoro_tamaraw.html (795 words)

	CONTRASTING WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI MICROFILARIA RATES IN TWO MANGYAN-POPULATED PHILIPPINE VILLAGES -- RAMIREZ et al. 71 ...
		Mindoro is an island province located 130 km south of Manila.
		in Baco, a municipality of Oriental Mindoro, was conducted as
		Lymphatic filariasis in Mindoro: a social history of Philippine islands in the 20th century: a case study of a delayed developmental process.
	www.ajtmh.org /cgi/content/full/71/1/17 (2507 words)

	SuperCat - SuperFerry Travel and Leisure - Destinations
		Mindoro has the natural assets for attracting visitors; rugged mountain rages and fertile valleys dominate its varied topography.
		Naujan Lake, the largest in the province, is home to the Mindoro crocodile and the delicious banak and simbad.
		Mount Halcon, the fourth highest peak in the Philippines, cuts across Mindoro dividing the paradise island province into Occidental and Oriental.
	www.supercat.com.ph /destinations.asp?code=orim (191 words)

	TSUNAMI: MINDORO'S 1994 EXPERIENCE
		By Felix De Los Santos - Residents of Mindoro island are still haunted by memories of the tsunami that claimed 41 lives, many of them children, on Nov. 15, 1994.
		According to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs), the areas hardest hit by the tsunami were Barangays Malaylay, Old Baco, Wawa and Baco islands, where waves at least six meters high smashed into the shore, destroying 1,530 houses.
		Most of the houses that were totally destroyed were in the municipalities of Calapan and Baco, while most partially damaged houses were in Naujan and Gloria.
	www.newsflash.org /2004/02/ht/ht004934.htm (631 words)

	AMCI Activities
		July and August 1991 were spent by the civic-minded AM members in soliciting donations from friends, acquaintances and donors which were brought to a Mt. Pinatubo evacuation center in Bacod, Botolan,Zambales.
		February 1993 - 60 members planted trees on the denuded areas of Mt. Malasimbo in Oriental Mindoro after which they headed to Puerto Galera for a beachside dinner hosted by Doña Bea Zobelde Ayala.
		Areas visited were Makati and Baco, Oriental Mindoro.
	jsamonte.tripod.com /amci/amciacts.htm (455 words)

	INQ7.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		CITY OF CALAPAN-The residents of Calapan, Mindoro, are preparing 400,000 sandbags to use as a temporary protection against floods, while the earth dike awaits repair and other more permanent engineering measures are yet to start.
		Rosa 1 and Mamangan 2 in Baco, Oriental Mindoro.
		Social welfare officials reported Wednesday that floods submerged several villages in the towns of Naujan, San Teodoro, Baco and Victoria in Mindoro.
	beta.inq7.net /express/html_output/20051230-61534.xml.html (584 words)

	Mindoro
		This was one of the last Japanese surface unit attacks on American beacheads during the war.
		The western half of the island is Occidental Mindoro province.
		Main town on the island of Mindoro, located in the south-west of the island in Mindoro Occidental.
	www.pacificwrecks.com /provinces/philippines_mindoro.html (1035 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Philippines: PGMA rushes rehabilitation work in flood-ravaged Oriental ...
		The President issued the directive during an inspection this morning of portions of the 1.3-kilometer Bucayao Dike destroyed by rampaging flood waters from the Bucayao River which overflowed at the height of the heavy rainfalls that battered Oriental Mindoro.
		Before her helicopter landed in Calapan City, the President conducted an aerial inspection of the Bucayao River, the breached Bucayao Dike and the surrounding farmlands to assess the extent of the damage wrought by the floods on agricultural crops and infrastructure facilities in the city and the neighboring municipalities.
		After her inspection of the damaged dike, the President directed Regional Director Alfredo Tolentino of the DPWH-MIMAROPA (Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon, Palawan) to speed up the bidding of the project to pave the way for the reconstruction of the damaged structure at the earliest time possible.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6KQ3WG?OpenDocument (456 words)

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