SAN JOSE - Economic Hub of MIMAROPA

     The Municipality of San Jose, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Occidental Mindoro, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 143,430 people^[3], which represents a third of the provincial population, and the largest among cities (excluding Puerto Princesa City) and municipalities in the MIMAROPA region.

     In pre-colonial times, it was named Pandurucan by the indigenous Mangyans, before later renamed for its patron saint, St. Joseph, the husband of Mary.

      San Jose is located about 400 kilometres (250 mi) kilometers south of Manila at the southern part of the province with a total land area of 44,670 hectares (110,400 acres), and is bordered on the north by the municipalities of Rizal and Calintaan, on the east by the municipalities of Mansalay and Bulalacao, on the south by the municipality of Magsaysay, and on the west by the Mindoro Strait. Its jurisdiction includes Ambulong and Ilin Islands.

                 

PANDAN GRANDE REEF .,SABLAYAN, OCC. MINDORO  

                                Selected media group going to San Jose, Occidental ,Mindoro

Apo Reef is a coral reef system in the Philippines situated on the western waters of Occidental Mindoro province in the Mindoro Strait. Encompassing 34 square kilometres (13 sq mi), it is considered the world's second-largest contiguous coral reef system, and is the largest in the country.^[1] The reef and its surrounding waters are protected areas in the country administered as the Apo Reef Natural Park (ARNP). It is one of the best known and most popular dive sites in the country. It is listed in the tentative list for UNESCO World Heritage Sites.^[2]

Courtesy call to the Mayor of San Jose, Occidental, Mindoro  

                   Ilin Elementary School in Ilin island, San Jose, Occidental  Mindoro 

                           FATHER Fernando Suarez, popularly referred to as the “healing priest,” helped build a new and bigger Chapel of the Santissima Trinidad on Ilin Island.

                                            Ilin Island, Occidental Mindoro

                                      Lunch at Ilin Island, Occidental Mindoro

                                                             
                                                   ILIN ISLAND, OCCIDENTAL MINDORO

                     INASAKAN Beach on Ilin Island offers a beach getaway for tourists.

                   INASAKAN Beach on Ilin Island offers a beach getaway for tourists.

                                          LUMANG SIMBAHAN NG SABLAYAN

                   
                                  PANDAN GRANDE REEF .,SABLAYAN, OCC.MINDORO

                        PANDAN GRANDE REEF .,SABLAYAN, OCC.MINDORO

                                  PANDAN GRANDE REEF .,SABLAYAN, OCC.MINDORO

    

A popular tourist attraction in the area is not actually in San Jose. The Mindoro Biodiversity Conservation, Research and Education Center, popularly called by its former name, the Tamaraw Gene Pool Farm, is actually in the barangay of Manoot in the adjacent town of Rizal, and it houses the only captive-bred tamaraw in the world, named Kalibasib, short for Kalikasan Bagong Sibol (literally, newly sprung nature).              The tamaraw or Mindoro dwarf buffalo (Bubalus mindorensis) is the only endemic bovine of the Philippines and to Mindoro Island. It is a critically endangered species, estimated to number about 500 left in the wild, mainly found in Mounts Iglit-Baco Natural Park, Aruyan-Malati Tamaraw Reservation and Mount Calavite Wildlife Sanctuary in Occidental Mindoro and the mountain ranges in Bongabong and Naujan in Oriental Mindor

                                          WHITE ISLAND (MANADI IS.) OCC.MINDORO 

                                       WHITE ISLAND (MANADI IS.) OCC.MINDORO


 

                                            WHITE ISLAND (MANADI IS.) OCC.MINDORO

                                       ZIPLINE IN SABLAYAN  ,OCCIDENTAL MINDORO         

                                                 ZIPLINE IN SABLAYAN  ,OCCIDENTAL MINDORO         



                                                     

                      Further up the barangay is the Iling Elementary School, where there is huge tree. This bubog tree, also called kalumpang or bastard poon tree, is said to be about a hundred years old. It marks an area called Ingbanhawan, said to be an old settlement site. No traces of the old settlement can be readily found, the place grown with weeds and trees.

                             THE Dap-ayan Center for Culture and the Arts and the Bantayog-Wika para sa Mangyan ng Occidental Mindoro on Aroma Beach in the town proper of San Jose.