Mariveles is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bataan, Philippines. The 2000 Census showed that Mariveles has a total population of 85,780 spread among its 18 barangays with a population growth rate of 4.71% per annum. It has a young population and posted a high employment rate of 30% with more than 27,000 people working in the different industrial firms in the locality or into livelihood programs and entrepreneurship. Population growth rate per annum is 4.71%, twice that of the province itself.

Agricultural resources include rice, mangoes, legumes, vegetables and coffee. It also has aquatic resources like round scads, grouper, mussel, and abalone; mineral deposits of granite and basalt and forest products like vines and bamboo. Mariveles takes pride as the host of the very first economic zone in the country, the Bataan Economic Zone (formerly Bataan Export Processing Zone).

It can be reached by ferry boat service from the CCP boat terminal via Port of Orion or Limay Port that has an approximate travel time of 40 minutes. By air, it will take about twenty-five minutes flying time by private aircraft services from the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. It has no airstrips to accommodate fixed wing aircraft but it has 4 helipads owned and controlled by the government and by various private companies thereat.

By land, it takes two to three-hour drive from the business capital of Manila and Makati via a well-paved road network . There are 3 big bus companies with more than 100 air-conditioned buses plying the Mariveles-Manila-Baguio routes and vice versa. There are also regular mini-buses that ply the Mariveles-Balanga route. The vicinity of the market serves as terminal of both jeepneys and tricycles which serve as transportation going to barangays and within the inner arteries of the municipality.

LOCATION

Located in a cove at the southernmost tip of The Bataan Peninsula, 165 kilometers from Manila. It is bounded on the East by Manila Bay and the North Channel which separates it from Corregidor Island; on the South and West by South China Sea; on the Northwest by Bagac; and on the North by Limay.

LAND AREA

Mariveles covers a total land area of 15,920 hectares or 153 kilometers representing 12% of the total land area of Bataan Province. Of this, 19% is forestland (home to an Aeta community speaking a Sambalic language called Mariveleño); 6% is agricultural land; 15% is industrial and residential; and 60% is pasture land which could easily be converted into an industrial facility.