Oriental Mindoro

Oriental Mindoro
Province
Province of Oriental Mindoro
(From top: left to right) Puerto Galera, Lake Naujan, Mount Halcon, Puerto Galera white beach, Calapan and Sabang Bay.
Flag Seal
Anthem: Martsa ng Silangang Mindoro (Oriental Mindoro March)
Location in the Philippines
OpenStreetMap
Coordinates: 13°00′N 121°25′E / 13°N 121.42°E / 13; 121.42
Country	Philippines
Region	Mimaropa
Founded	November 15, 1950[1]
Capital and largest city	Calapan
Government
• Type	Sangguniang Panlalawigan
• Governor	Humerlito "Bonz" A. Dolor (PDP–Laban)
• Vice Governor	Ejay L. Falcon (PDP–Laban)
• Legislature	Oriental Mindoro Provincial Board
Area [2]
• Total	4,238.38 km2 (1,636.45 sq mi)
• Rank	28th out of 81
Highest elevation (Mount Halcon)	2,616 m (8,583 ft)
Population  (2020 census)[3]
• Total	908,339
• Rank	33rd out of 81
• Density	210/km2 (560/sq mi)
• Rank	47th out of 81
Divisions
• Independent cities	0
• Component cities	1 Calapan
• Municipalities	14 Baco Bansud Bongabong Bulalacao Gloria Mansalay Naujan Pinamalayan Pola Puerto Galera Roxas San Teodoro Socorro Victoria
• Barangays	426
• Districts	Legislative districts of Oriental Mindoro
Time zone	UTC+8 (PHT)
ZIP code	5200–5214
IDD : area code	+63 (0)43
ISO 3166 code	PH-MDR
Spoken languages	Tagalog Mangyan English
Website	www.ormindoro.gov.ph

Oriental Mindoro (Tagalog: Silangang Mindoro), officially the Province of Oriental Mindoro (Tagalog: Lalawigan ng Silangang Mindoro (Oriental Mindoro)), is a province in the Philippines located on the island of Mindoro under Mimaropa region in Luzon, about 140 kilometres (87 mi) southwest of Manila. The province is bordered by the Verde Island Passage and the rest of Batangas to the north, by Marinduque, Maestre de Campo (or known as Sibale but official name is Concepcion) Island, Tablas Strait and the rest of Romblon to the east, by Semirara and the rest of Caluya Islands, Antique to the south, and by Occidental Mindoro to the west. Calapan, the only city in the island, is the provincial capital and Mimaropa's regional center.

Oriental Mindoro is touted as the country's emerging eco-tourism destination. In 2005, the Philippines was found to be the center of marine fish biodiversity and the home of the most diverse marine ecosystem in the world,^[4] by American biologists Kent Carpenter and Victor Springer. Most of the endemic species in the Philippines are found in the Verde Island Passage between Mindoro island and the main island of Luzon. The passage houses 2,983 individual species of algae, corals, crustaceans, mollusks, fishes, marine reptiles, and marine mammals, based on a study conducted by Carpenter and Springer in 2005.

UNESCO declared Puerto Galera a biosphere reserve^[5] under its Man and the Biosphere Programme in the 1970s. The Verde Island Passage is at the apex of the so-called Coral Triangle – the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia – which has the distinction of being the "center of the center of the world's marine biodiversity" and the "center of the center of marine shorefish biodiversity".