Mindoro
Location within the Philippines
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| Location | South East Asia |
| Coordinates | 12°55′49″N 121°5′40″E / 12.93028°N 121.09444°ECoordinates: 12°55′49″N 121°5′40″E / 12.93028°N 121.09444°E |
| Archipelago | Philippines |
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| Area | 10,571.8 km2 (4,081.8 sq mi) |
| Area rank | 74th |
| Coastline | 618.8 km (384.5 mi) |
| Highest elevation | 2,585 m (8,481 ft) |
| Highest point | Mount Halcon |
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Philippines
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| Largest settlement | San Jose (pop. 131,188) |
| Demographics | |
| Population | 1,238,573 (2010) |
| Pop. density | 117.2 /km2 (303.5 /sq mi) |
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Mindoro (Tagalog pronunciation: [mɪnˈdoɾo]) is the seventh-largest island in the Philippines. It is located off the coast of Luzon, and northeast of Palawan. The southern coast of Mindoro forms the northeastern extremum of the Sulu Sea.
In past times, it has been called Ma-i or Mait by Chinese traders and, by Spaniards, as Mina de Oro (meaning "gold mine or Lots of Gold") from where the island got its current name. According to the late historian William Henry Scott, an entry in the official history of the Sung Dynasty for the year 972 mentions Ma-i as a trading partner of China. Other Chinese records referring to Ma-i or Mindoro appear in the years that follow.
The products that Mindoro traders exchanged with the Chinese included "beeswax, cotton, true pearls, tortoise shell, medicinal betelnuts and yu-ta [jute?] cloth" for Chinese porcelain, trade gold, iron pots, lead, copper, colored glass beads and iron needles.
From 1920 to 1950, the island was a single province with Calapan City as the provincial capital. In 1950, it was divided into its two present-day provinces, Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro, following a referendum that was pushed through by then acting governor Romeo Venturanza. Toril
The island was the location of the Battle of Mindoro in World War II.
The economy of Mindoro is largely based on agriculture. Products consist of a wide variety of fruits, such as citrus, bananas, lanzones, rambutan, and coconuts, such cereals as rice and maize, sugar cane, peanuts, fish (catfish, milkfish, tilapia), , and poultry. Logging and the mining of marble and copper also thrive.
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