Batangas Philippines is one of the most beautiful areas in the Philippines. It is located in the Calabarzon region, on the island of Luzon, in the Southwest Region.

To the north the province is bounded by the provinces of Laguna and Cavite. To the East is the province of Quezon. To the south Across the Verde Island Passage is the Island of Mindoro, which is an extremely popular destination for tourists and divers.



Batangas is only 1.5 hours drive South of the Capital region of Metro Manila. It is an extremely gorgeous are with stunning scenery. The lush coconut plantations and fields of pineapple plantations are beautiful for the eye to behold. It would be difficult to find a more peaceful and lovely area of the Philippines than Batangas province.

Batangas Capital Batangas City

The population of The province of Batangas is approximately 2,200,000

Capital: Batangas City

Governor Rosa Vilma Santos-Recto (Liberal)

Vice Governor Jose Antonio "Mark" Leviste II (Liberal)

Languages Spoken Tagalog (Batangas dialect), English), (Spanish)

Divisions

Component cities 3
Municipalities 31
Barangays 1,078
Districts 1st to 4th districts of Batangas









There are several provinces that border Batangas, one of which is the province of Cavite to the North.
Taal Volcano


Cavite is also the location of a very popular and beautiful tourist destination called Tagaytay, which also includes Taal lake and Taal Volcano, one of the most popular and beautiful tourist destinations in the Philippines. Taal Volcano is a very complicated and active volcano which has a history of eruptions going back decades. It has had many eruptions, some violent, and it is considered one of the active volcanos in the Philippines. It is also part of the "Pacific Ring of Fire".

Taal Volcano and Taal Lake






The Capital of the province of Batangas is Batangas City. The largest city in the Calabarzon region, Batangas City is also known as the Industrial Port City in the province of Batangas.

Batangas City is getting ready for more trade, financial services like Banks, schools and colleges and also medical services, hospitals and clinics for other areas of the province . It is the center for business and commerce and trade in Batangas Province.

The city also boasts one of the biggest refineries for oil in the Philippines, Pilipinas Shell. There are also 3 natural gas plants as well as gas powered companies namely Keilco, First Gas and Malampaya On-Shore Gas Plant.

Some of the various industries are as follows: JG Summit Petrochemical CorpSan as well as Miguel Food Corporation, Universal Robina Corp and JG Summit Petrochemical Corp., , Chemphil Bulk Terminal, First Philippine Industrial Corp and San Lorenzo Power Plant .

Batangas city is the central location for higher education in the province, as it hosts the 3 largest universities in the area, as well as new international schools that are locating there.

With a population of 295,000 people, and near 50,000 households, Batangas City is definitely the largest city in Batangas, and it contains the most modern hospitals, shopping centers, universities, and also houses Television and radio stations.

Batangas Port


Batangas Port is one of the busiest shipping ports in the Southern Region of Luzon province.



Batangas Port is located in the city of Batangas City in the province of Batangaas. It is the main and most important port for boarding Ferries to the Island of Mindoro. Also to Romblon , Tablas and other islands in the region.

The largest passenger shipping lines that exits the port is called Montenegro Lines. There are also other shipping companies that can be booked out of this port.

Oil tankers and also gas tankers (for Natural Gas) liquid natural gas, avail of use of Batangas Port and they unload huge quantities of their products and ship them all over the Philippines from this port.
The Philippines Port Authority is the government agency that oversees Batangas Port.

Batangas Port Night





Some of the Universities and schools located in the city are

1. Batangas State University
2. De La Salle Lipa (located in Lipa Batangas)
3. University of Batangas
4. Saint Bridget College
5. Westmead International School
6. STI colleges
7. Golden Gate Colleges




Batangas is home to some of the nicest malls in the Philippines. Whether it be small local city malls, or large chain malls like Robinsons and SM, Batangas has a wide variety of large shopping malls to serve all of your shopping needs.

Robinsons Mall Lipa.

Located in the city of Lipa Batangas Robinsons Lipa is a large mall with a wide variety of food vendors and also shops for playing games for the kids, as well as clothing stores, jewelry stores, small local vendors with arts and crafts, and also furniture, electronics, and televisions and computer and cell phone vendors. The mall usually closes around 9pm.

SM Mall Lipa.

SM City Batangas...Batangas City.

SM Holdings owns most of the large nice malls in the Philipines including the largest mall in Asia. (Mall of Asia in Pasay Manila.) The SM center Batangas City is the largest mall in Batangas. The mall is built on 8.5 hectares and opened on Nov 12, 2004. It is located in Barangay Pallocan West, Batangas City. It is 75,000 square meters, and serves customers in Batangas City and also from the municipalities that surround Batangas City.