Puerto Princesa

Before leaving my country to start my experience, i looked for some information from Puerto Princesa:

Puerto Princesa is the second largest city in the Philippines and is located on the island province of Palawan. The city lies 567 km south west from the capital Manila. 

The city has two prevailing types of climatic conditions: six months of dry weather from November to April, and the rest being a wet season from May to October with the heaviest recorded rainfall in September, while the driest month being February.

The main economic activities in the city are tourism, mining, agriculture and fishing.

Puerto Princesa covers an area of 2540 sqkm and has a population of 276 330 inhabitants living in 45,265 housholds. The city has 66 barangays (villages/wards), majority of which are rural settlements with a population of 150,000, most of them engaged in agriculture and fishing. A third of the population resides in the city´ urbanised settlement. About 14% of the households live in city’s nine slums.

The poverty indicator of the National Statistical Cooperation Board lists 27.7% of the population to live below poverty line. 

There are 207 schools within the city. Currently the total literacy rate in the city is almost 99% in urban and 96.5% in rural areas. Health services are provided by four hospitals in the city.  Among the five most common diseases are respiratory infections, genito urinary track infection, malaria and muscular skeletal disorder.