Roxas

Municipality

Roxas lies on the east coast of northern mainland Palawan, facing the Sulu Sea, about 135 km from Puerto Princesa. It has 31 barangays.

San Vicente is 48 km away by road, about an hour's drive.

Nearest gateway: Puerto Princesa International Airport, 135 km by road
Area: North Central
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The local government

Mayor: Kumpay Pedy Sabando
Vice mayor: Alfredo Enojas Jr.
Municipality of: Roxas
PSGC code: 1705318000
Barangays: 31
Land area: 1,177.6 km²

Elected on 12 May 2025 for the term to 30 June 2028, named as on the ballot, from the count COMELEC released (via Rappler); checked 9 November 2026. An official can be suspended or replaced during a term, so the town hall has the last word.

In an emergency

Call 911

Roxas’s disaster office (MDRRMO): 0910-020-0456

From the provincial emergency page, checked 8 November 2026. Every emergency number

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Roxas in pictures

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An outrigger boat moored on the still, glassy sea off Roxas in the evening lightPhoto: Kingnaharry, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lone trees standing in the surf on a beach in Roxas, facing the Sulu SeaPhoto: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Banana leaves framing the blue Sulu Sea from the shore at RoxasPhoto: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Trees and dark rocks at the water's edge on the Sulu Sea shore of RoxasPhoto: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Forest opening onto the Sulu Sea from a bluff on the east coast at RoxasPhoto: Vyacheslav Argenberg, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Roxas from the air: a river running to the sea between two villages, a footbridge across itPhoto enhanced with AI

Roxas from the air: a long sandbar curving between tidal flats and a turquoise reef, bancas moored off itPhoto enhanced with AI

Roxas from the air: a palm-covered island with a white beach and a reef, mountains across the waterPhoto enhanced with AI

Roxas from the air: a small palm island ringed by white sand and turquoise shallowsPhoto enhanced with AI

Roxas from the air: a river bending past villages and a wide stand of mangrovesPhoto enhanced with AI

Roxas from the air: a waterfall dropping through rainforest into a blue poolPhoto enhanced with AI

Getting to Roxas

From Puerto Princesa: By road, about 135 km.

Its people and its past

Roxas was created in 1951 under Republic Act No. 615 from nine barrios of Puerto Princesa, among them Tinitian, Caramay and Tumarbong. The municipality's name is given in Hiligaynon, Cuyonon and Tagalog.

Cashew is Palawan's leading farm crop, particularly in Roxas, which holds more than 2,400 hectares of the province's cashew plantations. Processing enterprise a good news to cashew growers in Roxas, Palawan (Department of Agriculture MIMAROPA, 5 July 2017)

Roxas declared the Palawan pangolin (Manis culionensis) its municipal flagship species through Municipal Ordinance No. 780, series of 2020. Roxas, to celebrate 1st Municipal Pangolin Day - Palawan Daily News

Also around Roxas

island
Porao Island
An island that makes up Barangay V, one of the Poblacion barangays of Roxas.
Roxas, Palawan - Wikipedia
island
Johnson Island
An island that makes up Barangay VI, one of the Poblacion barangays of Roxas.
Roxas, Palawan - Wikipedia
resort
Modessa Island
An island in Roxas, home to Modessa Island Resort, and one of the islands the town planned to open to visitors from October 2025.
Roxas LGU eyes opening their destinations to tourists by October 2025 - Palawan Daily News
resort
Puerco Island (Banwa)
A private island in Roxas, home to the Banwa Private Island resort, about two hours from Manila by helicopter or seaplane.
Did you know? (Palawan Daily News, 17 February 2023)