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Bounded on three directions by bodies of water, Misamis Occidental is known to its neighbors for beautiful waters and bountiful fish and seafood for export. Misamis Occidental offers broad amenities and pervading culture and heritage, and inspiring pilgrimage. Along with other Philippine provinces, it meets your tours, home or business wants. Once Northern Mindanao’s center of influence in the mid-18th century, it is regaining prominence today. Its current impressive economic gains indicate business opportunities. As an agro-fishery-industrial dynamo, it meets your needs for a historical, cultural and pilgrimage destination with mixed urban-rural setting.

The province consists of fourteen municipalities, including the lately created Don Victoriano Chiongbian. municipality and three cities namely: Oroquieta, Ozamiz and Tangub. The provincial capital is Oroquieta City. Legislative Act. No. 3537 passed November 2, 1929 divided the old province of Misamis into Misamis Occidental. The Occidental comprise the towns of Baliangao, Lopez Jaena, Tudela, Clarin, Plaridel, Oroquieta, Aloran, Jimenez, and Misamis. The Original nine municipalities of the province grew intothe present three cities of Ozamiz, Oroquieta and Tangub anf fourteen municipalities of Alron, Baliangao, Calamba, Clarin, Conception, don Victoriano, Jimenez, Lopez Jaena, Panaon, Plaridel, Sapang Dalaga, Sinacaban and Tudela with a total number of 490 barangays.

Geographical Location

Misamis Occidental is located near the narrow strip of land linking northwestern Mindanao, to the north central part of the island. Shaped like a collapsible fan or a loaf of American Bread or the fourth letter in the alphabet, it is bounded on the northeast by the Mindanao Sea, East by the Iligan Ba, southeast by the Panguil Bay, and the west by the Zamboanga Del Norte and Sur. The fact that three of its boundaries are bodies of water gives away water life as one of its natural resources and findings as one of its main boundaries. Except along the coastal area, hilly and rolling land characterized the provincial terrain. Towards the western border, the terrain is particularly rugged. The province falls between 23033’00’’ to 123051’50’’ east longitude and 8001’15’’ 8040’15’’ north latitude.

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