Oriental Mindoro Declares The First Ever Mimaropa Festival Winners

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Congratulations to Sharla Santillan of Baragatan Festival-Palawan for being the very first Mimaropa Festival Queen. Marielle Sarmiento of Oriental Mindoro is 1st Runner Up while Princess Anne Noche of Marinduque was 2nd Runner Up.

Marrielle Sarmiento, Miss Oriental Mindoro, was also Best in Modern Filipiniana Casual Wear, and Best in Barong Inspired Long Gown. She also won the Sponsors Awards for Miss Avon, Miss Kia Motors, and Miss Aram Wellness.

Miss Photogenic was Princess Anne Noche, Miss Marinduque. Best in Festival Wear was Mikaela Diestro, Miss Puerto Princesa, and the Best in Dance Presentation was Miss Palawan, Sharla Santillan.

The other Festival Candidates candidates are Ariane Garcia, Miss Calapan City, and Kattline Joy Eranes, Miss Romblon. Occidental Mindoro was not able to send a candidates since they are also busy celebrating their own 65th founding anniversary.

Miss Calapan City

Miss Marinduque

Miss Oriental Mindoro

Miss Palawan

Miss Romblon

Incidentally, Baragatan Festival of Palawan also won as grand winner and Best in Musicality in the Mimaropa Festival Dance competition. The other winners were Bila Bila Festival of Marinduque as 1st Runner Up and Biniray Festival of Romblon as 2nd Runner Up. 

The board of judges at the Mimaropa Festival Dance competition were Roberto Mercado, Jeslyn Santos, Lordino Vergara, John Edward Dela Vega, and Andrew Dumaop. While Ali Forbes, John Edward Dela Vega, Gilbert Sadsad, Jonas Antonio Gaffud, and Bessie Besana were the judges at the Mimaropa Festival Queen Competition.

Miss Palawan

Miss Oriental Mindoro

Miss Marinduque

Miss Puerto Princesa

Miss Calapan City

Miss Romblon

Get to see more photos of their fabulous outfits during the Mimaropa Festival Queen competition night at a separate blog post. You may also check out more photos at the Wazzup Pilipinas Facebook page, and videos at our YouTube and Dailymotion channels.

Mimaropa stands for Mindoro (Oriental and Occidental), Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan. These five (5) provinces and two (2) component cities make up Mimaropa and have acknowledged full support and participation in the first-ever Mimaropa Festival and its stand-in events. It just so happens that Occidental Mindoro is also celebrating their founding anniversary so they were not able to participate at the festival.

The Mimaropa Festival is spearheaded by the Provincial Tourism, Investment and Enterprise Development Office (PTIEDO) of Oriental Mindoro. Everyone was in full support for the making of "The Next BIG THING in the Philippines.

Next year, it is expected for the next host province to organize the event and make it even bigger and of international standards, but we were informed that one of the provinces has already volunteered for 2017 as the next host who promises to make it grander than ever.

Who will be the next host of the Mimaropa Festival for 2016? That would be something to look forward to and we would surely want to be there again.

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