Bulalacao, officially the Municipality of Bulalacao ( tgl, Bayan ng Bulalacao), is a 3rd class

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in the

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Oriental Mindoro Oriental Mindoro ( tl, Silangang Mindoro), officially the Province of Oriental Mindoro, is a province in the Philippines located on the island of Mindoro under Mimaropa region in Luzon, about southwest of Manila. The province is bordered by th ...

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. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,366 people. It is formerly known as San Pedro.Republic Act No. 5646
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History

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'' Gabriel Contreras – Gobernadorcillo and Capitan Municipal. One of the rulers of Bulalacao under the Spanish Imperial Crown The territory of Bulalacao was formerly raided by

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(

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) Calido of Panay. The Contreras family administered over Bulalacao as Panginoon Basal/Punong

before the conquest of Spain. Since the founding of the First Republic, Bulalacao has predominantly been administered by descendants of Don Gabriel Contreras. The lands composing the present Municipality of Bulalacao was previously the hacienda of the Contreras family. Their collateral familial lines (Sejera, Templanza, Fajardo, etc.) also once held vast haciendas throughout the island of Mindoro. Bulalacao, with a natural harbor, is one of the places theorized by anthropologists and archaeologists to be the location of the ancient wangdom of

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. In the late 1970s, several jade Chinese porcelain vases were found in Bulalacao, further corroborating the theory. On May 7, 1995, reelectionist Mayor Guillermo Salas was assassinated a day before the 1995 election by Rodel Gonzales of the

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tribe; Gonzales eventually surrendered to authorities five days later, confessing to the crime.

Geography

Bulalacao is located at the southernmost tip of the province and is from

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Climate

Barangays

Bulalacao is politically subdivided into 15

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Demographics

Economy

Transportation

Bulalacao has a port that serves as a gateway from Mindoro to Caticlan in

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. FastCat operates in the port.

References

External links

Bulalacao Profile at PhilAtlas.comBulalacao, Oriental Mindoro official website
* Philippine Standard Geographic Codebr>Philippine Census InformationLocal Governance Performance Management System
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