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	WOW Philippines :: Explore Philippines :: Description
		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)

	Mindoro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mindoro is the seventh-largest island in the Philippines.
		The principal language in Mindoro is Tagalog, although in some parts it has been greatly influenced by the native Visayan and Mangyan languages.
		Mindoro is also home to the Tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis), which is endemic to the island.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mindoro (442 words)

	Occidental Mindoro, Philippines
		DZMM correspondent Dennis Datu identified the victims as Vergel Esar, 6; and siblings Mariel, 7, and Kimberly Panganiban, 8.
		Mindoro Pine used to thrive sporadically in the mountain ranges of the Occidental Mindoro towns of Sta.
		In a resolution, the SC en banc denied for lack of merit the letter-complaint of former Occidental Mindoro congressman Ricardo Quintos, father of the victims, addressed to Chief Justice Reynato Puno, seeking to hold administratively liable CA Associate Justices Edgardo Cruz and Noel Tijam.
	luzon.wowphilippines.com /occidentalmindoro (1524 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Mindoro rain forests (IM0130) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The center of Mindoro Island is dominated by high rolling mountains, which rise to a maximum elevation of approximately 8200 feet (2500 m).
		Mindoro natives traditionally have feared the animal because of its aggressiveness.
		Mindoro also supports a population of the Philippine warty pig, which is considered rare and declining.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0130.html (426 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.
		Mindoro originally included the island of Maestro de Campo, east of Pinamalayan, but this has since become a part of Romblon.
	www.orientalmindoro.com /about.asp (500 words)

	Mindoro - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mindoro Resources Ltd.: New Acquisitions in Surigao Gold District.
		Mindoro to Raise $330,000 to Finance Drilling; AurionGold Withdraws From Pan de Azucar.
		Mindoro Resources Ltd. and Panoro Minerals Ltd.: Two Promising Porphyry Copper-Gold Drill Targets Defined on Agata Project; New Ground Acquired.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-mindoro.html (203 words)

	GlobalPinoy, Travel - Oriental Mindoro
		Oriental Mindoro shares the eastern half of the large island of Mindoro Island.
		It is bounded on the north by Verde Island Passage on the east by the Tablas Strait, which separates Mindoro from the islands of Romblon.
		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)

	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)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| WEEKEND > A beautiful bird with a bleeding heart
		For the Mindoro Bleeding-heart, it is orange and relatively elongated.
		Found only in Mindoro, a 9,826-square-kilometer island southwest of mainland Luzon, the Mindoro Bleeding-heart is known as Kulo-kulo or Labikong to the Mangyans, the indigenous peoples living in Mindoro’s forests.
		In Sablayan, the largest tract of lowland forest in the area, the Mindoro Bleeding-heart was observed in an open area on the forest floor, in a bamboo thicket, near a pool in a dry riverbed, and on shady, level forest with few rocky outcrops.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2006/sept/03/yehey/weekend/20060903week10.html (899 words)

	Oriental Mindoro
		Marinduque became a separate province from Mindoro in 1901 and the latter was a sub-province of the former 1902 - 1921.
		With the arrival of the Spanish, the Mindoro province was created early in the 17th Century with Puerto Galera as its capital.
		The capital of Mindoro was moved to Calapan in 1903 with Puerto Galera becoming a barrio of the new province capital.
	philippines-archipelago.com /author/visited/oriental_mindoro.html (465 words)

	Mindoro
		The first Mindoro, an unarmored gunboat, was built by Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co., Hong Kong, B.C.C., in 1886; purchased by the War Department in 1899; transferred to the Navy and commissioned 12 June 1899, at Cavite, Ens.
		Mindoro again recommissioned 19 August 1904 and immediately sailed for Mindanao to assist the Army in putting down a rebellion in the Rio Grande Valley.
		Assigned to the Asiatic Fleet 30 December, she stood out for Cebu 15 March 1910 and subsequently was on patrol duty around Jolo, Bongo, and Mindanao The gunboat returned to Cavite for the last time in April 1911, and on the 11th was placed out of commission there.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m11/mindoro-i.htm (434 words)

	Occidental Mindoro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The South China Sea is to the west of the province and Palawan is located to the southwest, across Mindoro Strait.
		Batangas is to the north, separated by the Verde Island Passage.
		There have been recent studies that Mangyans were formerly living near the coastlines, but they were compelled to move into the interior jungles of the island when the Spanish colonizers came.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Occidental_Mindoro (2018 words)

	Mindoro Nickel Project MPSA Reinstated
		The people of Mindoro have fought a long and hard battle to protect critical river systems and the indigenous rights of the Mangyan people living in the mountains where Crew wants to position this mine.
		The response of the Office of the President is a clear and strong signal of the change in attitude of the Government of the Philippines towards mining, from that of tolerance to active promotion and acknowledges the MPSA as a tool for investment protection.
		We shall not allow this paradise to be ransformed into desert during the summer, and a raging flood during the rainy season, because of the destruction of the balance of nature.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press300.htm (759 words)

	Mindoro Oriental Province
		Northeast of Palawan in Region IV is the island of Mindoro, which (with surrounding smaller islands) which constituted the Province of Mindoro from 1921 until 1950, when it was split into Occidental and Oriental halves.
		Occidental Mindoro has a population of 378,000 in eleven towns on 5880 sq.km.
		Oriental Mindoro has the oldest Spanish fort in the Philippines, with the cannons that were used against Moro raiders, whose depredations continued well into the nineteenth century.
	www.kykofc.com /kentucky/KOC_Sites/int/Philippines/mindorooriental.htm (162 words)

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		MINDORO ISLAND is one of the five identified BIOGEOGRAPHICAl ZONES of the Philippines.
		The people of Oriental Mindoro believes that because the mining area is located up in the mountain ranges, the perceived benefits measured in millions is not commensurate to the risk being taken.
		The alleged "development" and miners' social responsibility in exchange for local communities subservience and submission and the timing of the so-called development prior to their social acceptability bid is tantamount to bribery.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/Mindoro1.htm (776 words)

	Mindoro Hotels and Travel Destinations, Puerto Galera Hotels & Resorts, Mindoro Accomodation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trade relations with China where Mindoro was known as "Mai’ started when certain traders from "Mai" brought valuable merchandise to Canton in 892 A.D. The geographic proximity of the island to China Sea had made possible the establisment of such relations with Chinese merchantmen long before the first Europeans came to the Philippines.
		Historians believed that the first inhabitants of Mindoro were the Indonesians who came to the island 8,000 to 3,000 years ago.
		The plains of Occidental Mindoro are inhabited by the Tagalogs and the remote forested interior by the Mangyans.
	www.lakbaypilipinas.com /travel_mindoro.html (550 words)

	Mindoro Resources Ltd. - Home Page - Sun Nov 18, 2007
		Mindoro Resources Ltd. - Home Page - Sun Nov 18, 2007
		Mindoro is a Tier One company trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (MIO) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (WKN 906167).
		Sun Jan 23, 2005 : Conference : Mindoro Exhibits at 2005 Vancouver Resource Investment Conference...
	www.mindoro.com (181 words)

	Mindoro Hotels and Resorts - Mindoro, Philippines
		Up to 75% discount on major hotels/resorts in the Philippines on pre-payment arrangement.
		Oriental Mindoro has the natural asset for attracting tourists.
		It still has the unspoiled envireoment, tropical climate, an agricultural setting, numerous beaches, interesting mountain areas, lakes, rivers, rain forests, wild animals, rare fora and fauna and the existing cultural minorites.
	www.islandsaccommodations.com /hotels-resorts/mindoro (116 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Mindoro rain forests (IM0130)
		The western coast of Mindoro experiences a wet season during the southwest monsoon of June to October and a dry season during the November to February northeast monsoon because of the central mountains (High Rolling Mountains) (Collins et al.
		Mindoro is separated from Palawan to the south and Luzon to the north by deepwater channels and has not been connected to those islands during the recent past (Pleistocene) (Heaney 1986).
		Although it is smaller and not as rich as some of the larger Philippine islands, Mindoro faces high levels of faunal endangerment because a larger proportion of its fauna is endangered; this level of endangerment is well-correlated with the degree of deforestation on the respective islands (Heaney 1993).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0130_full.html (1700 words)

	Oriental Mindoro,
		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 province's varied topography is dominated by rugged mountain ranges on the west and fertile valleys towards the eastern coast.
	www.fortunecity.com /oasis/acapulco/215/region4/ormindoro/ormindoro.htm (540 words)

	PGMA's Speech during the Oriental Mindoro Investment Summit (ORMINVEST) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is a gathering that's crucial to Mindoro Oriental, important to Mindoro Occidental as well as to the whole Republic of the Philippines.
		But as far as Mindoro is concerned, you are only an hour away from Batangas port, and the factories of CALABARZON are contributing to put landing lights in Lipa so that they will ship in and ship out their airfreighted products in Lipa.
		Mindoro oriental is a microcosm of the Philippines.
	www.ops.gov.ph /speeches2006/speech-2006_apr06.htm (3029 words)

	MINDORO OCCIDENTAL, PHILIPPINES (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Following the existing sea routes during the ancient time, the ships sailed to Mindoro's north and west coasts, which were then the densely populated urban centers.
		Mindoro became part of Batangas Province when the latter was made a separate province known as Bonbon.
		At the beginning of the 17th century, the island was separated from Batangas and organized into a "Corrigimento" with Puerto Galera as its capital and placed under the jurisdiction of Marinduque.
	www.geocities.com /lubangisland/history.html (411 words)

	Remembering Mindoro (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The edict remained in force for most of our voyage from Leyte to Mindoro since we were under attack, or expected to be under attack most of the time.
		We never had a significant rainstorm during our occupation of Mindoro so we had no way of knowing what the river was like under those circumstances but we suspected the stream bed could be a raging torrent.
		Mindoro in short order had many planes from a number of different units; Air Corps, Marines and an occasional Navy plane.
	www.corregidor.org /heritage_battalion/abbott/mindoro.html (7269 words)

	PRESS RELEASE Mindoro Resources Ltd. and Panoro Minerals Ltd.: SR Metals Signs Confidentiality Agreement on Agata ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mindoro Resources Ltd. and Panoro Minerals Ltd.: SR Metals Signs Confidentiality Agreement on Agata Nickel Laterite
		Mindoro is a Tier 1 Issuer trading on the TSX Venture Exchange (MIO) and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (OLM).
		Issuers of news releases, not Market Wire, are solely responsible for the accuracy of the content.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=147732 (782 words)

	Holmen Courier - News
		“Focus on Mindoro” is the theme of a photo contest being sponsored by the Friends of the Mindoro Community Library.
		The divisions are adult (age 15 and older) and youth (age 14 and younger).
		They may be dropped off at the Mindoro Elementary School Library or mailed to: Mindoro Elementary Library, P.O. Box 108, Mindoro, WI 54644.
	www.holmencourier.com /articles/2006/08/03/news/02mindoropix.txt (362 words)

	USN Ships--USS Mindoro (1899-1912) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		USS Mindoro, a 142-ton gunboat, was built at Hong Kong in 1886 as the Spanish Navy warship of the same name.
		Stationed in the Philippine Islands, she was a prize of the Spanish-American War and was purchased by the War Department in 1899, transferred to the Navy and placed in commission in June of that year.
		Decommissioned in April 1911, USS Mindoro was stricken from the Navy list in June 1911 and sold in April 1912.
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/mindoro.htm (287 words)

	The Mindoro Bleeding Heart \| Haribon
		Found only in Mindoro, a 9,826-square kilometer island southwest of mainland Luzon, the Mindoro Bleeding-heart is known as Kulo-kulo to the Mangyans, the indigenous peoples living in Mindoro’s forests.
		The Mindoro Bleeding-heart is considered Critically Endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), meaning, there are only about 500 individuals left, and it is facing an extremely high risk of extinction, possibly within the next five years, unless we do something about it.
		The Mindoro Bleeding-heart is not just a pretty ornament in our forests, they actually play a role in forest regeneration through the dispersal of seeds of the trees they feed on.
	www.haribon.org.ph /index.php?q=node/view/238 (1033 words)

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