Brief Profile of Bataraza

Municipality of Bataraza, Province of Palawan

 Bataraza is a second class municipality in the province of Palawan, Philippines.

It is named after Datu Bataraza Narrazid, a locally influential Muslim chieftain and father of the town's first

Hon. Abraham Ibba is the President of the Association
of Barangay Chairmen of Palawan and ex-officio member
of the Provincial Board. He was former mayor
of Bataraza town for many years

mayor and former mayor of Brooke's Point, the late Datu Sapiodin Narrazid.

Bataraza was part of the municipality of Brooke's Point until 1964 by the virtue of Philippine RA 3425.

According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 41,458 people in 8,658 households.

Main industries of Bataraza includes farming, fishing, and nickel mining and processing.

Bataraza is located on the southernmost tip of mainland Palawan, approximately 236 km from Puerto Princesa City and about five to six hours by land. It has total land area of 957 km². It is situated some 775 km (480 mi) southwest of Manila, and stretches approximately 80 km in northeasterly to southwesterly direction between roughly 8.3 and 8.75 degrees latitude north of the equator.

Bataraza lies amidst the south Sulu Sea Malis River rounded at Cape Buliluyan and further extended up to Wangly River in the south western part of the mainland. It is bounded in the east by the Sulu Sea, in the west by a great mountain range, extending from Mount Mantalingahan (the highest peak in the province) to Mount Malitub, which serves as the divider between Bataraza and Rizal, and in the southwest by the South China Sea.

Bataraza is politically subdivided into 22 barangays:

-Bono-Bono

-Bulalacao

-Buliluyan

-Culandanum

-Igang-Igang

-Inogbong

-Iwahig

-Malihud

-Malitub

-Marangas (Poblacion)

-Ocayan

-Puring

-Rio Tuba

-Sandoval

-Sapa

-Sarong

-Sumbiling

-Tabud

-Tagnato

-Tagolango

-Taratak

-Tarusan

Source: Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataraza,_Palawan