el toro bumingo 2: The Colorful City of Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro

Saturday, October 10, 2020

The Colorful City of Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro

I’ve been hearing a lot about Pinamalayan and to my understanding, it’s one of the most progressive town in the entire Mindoro Island. When I reached Pinamalayan from Victoria (via van, because the jeepney route stops at Victoria), I was impressed with the town.

The municipal hall has a character, the main Roman Catholic church of St Augustine is beautiful, the marketplace is huge, the town plaza has a covered court and a Rizal Monument and there are quite some old houses here. I’ll post the pictures of the houses in a separate blog post here.

Pinamalayan has Jollibee, Mercury Drug, Southstar Drug, Metrobank, Novo Hotel, Mang Inasal among others. It’s also a coastal town so they have an aplaya. The Western Strong Republic Nautical Highway doesn’t pass through the town center itself, but I dropped off at the huge monument of a palayok (pot). I guess they’re projecting the town as the end of the rainbow with the pot of gold.

Here is some information about the town from PhilAtlas.

Pinamalayan is a coastal municipality in the province of Oriental Mindoro.

The municipality has a land area of 282.26 square kilometers or 108.98 square miles which constitutes 6.66% of Oriental Mindoro's total area. Its population as determined by the 2015 Census was 86,172. This represented 10.21% of the total population of Oriental Mindoro province, or 2.91% of the overall population of the MIMAROPA region. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 305 inhabitants per square kilometer or 791 inhabitants per square mile.

You could also visit the Official Website of Pinamalayan here.