Makati, officially the City of Makati, or simply known as Makati City, is a highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines.
Laguna de Báý or Laguna Lake is the largest lake in the Philippines located east of Metro Manila between the provinces of Laguna to the south and Rizal to the north. The freshwater lake has a surface area of 911–949 km², with an average depth of about 2.8 metres and an elevation of about 1 metre above sea level. The lake is shaped like a stylized 'W', with two peninsulas jutting out from the northern shore. Between these peninsulas, the middle lobe fills the large volcanic Laguna Caldera. In the middle of the lake is the large island of Talim, which falls under the jurisdiction of the towns of Binangonan and Cardona in Rizal province.
The Pasig River is a river in the Philippines that connects Laguna de Bay to Manila Bay. Stretching for 25 kilometres (15.5 mi), it bisects the Philippine capital of Manila and its surrounding urban area into northern and southern halves. Its major tributaries are the Marikina River and San Juan River. The total drainage basin of Pasig River, including the basin of Laguna de Bay, covers 4,678 square kilometres (1,806 sq mi).
Santa Mesa is a district in Manila, Philippines. It is surrounded by Pasig River on the southwestern side, and by the San Juan River on its southern and eastern side. Land borders include the districts of San Miguel to the west and Sampaloc to the north; and to the northeast is Quezon City.
Santa Ana is a district of Manila, Philippines known for its architectural heritage known as Santa Ana Heritage District which is composed of numerous historic ancestral houses, Plaza Hugo, and the Santa Ana Church and its Camarín de la Virgen in which the Patroness of Santa Ana is Enshrined, The 300 years old Image of the "Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados de Manila" La Gobernadora de la Ciudad de Manila. The district was classified as a histo-cultural heritage/overlay zone by an ordinance passed by the Manila City Council. It was the only district of the city spared from the destruction of World War II. The area is also extremely rich in archaeological findings, notably on the material culture of pre-colonial or protohistoric Tagalog communities.
Namayan, also called Sapa, Maysapan or Nasapan, and sometimes Lamayan, was one of three independent polities that dominated the banks of the Pasig River in the Philippines during the 16th century, just prior to the Spanish colonization of the Philippines.
Pedro Gil Street is an east-west inner city street and a tertiary national road in south-central Manila, Philippines. It is 3.6 kilometers long, and spans the entire length of Ermita, Malate, Paco and Santa Ana districts, as well as portions of San Andres.
The Parish of Our Lady of the Abandoned, also known as the Santa Ana Church, and newly declared National Shrine of Our Lady of the Abandoned by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines, is a Spanish colonial period church located in the district of Santa Ana in Manila, Philippines. The parish was established by the Franciscan missionaries in 1578 under the patronage of Saint Anne. The present stone church was constructed by Father Vicente Inglés, OFM from 1720 to 1725 and was dedicated to its present patron, the Our Lady of the Abandoned. The revered image of its patron was made in Valencia,Spain in 1713 and arrived in the Philippines in 1717.
The Santuario del Santo Cristo, also known as the Church of San Juan del Monte is a church and convento in San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines. The shrine was built in 1602–1604 by the Dominicans on land that was donated to the order. Both the church and convento were burnt and destroyed during the Chinese insurrection of 1639, and later rebuilt in 1641. It was again destroyed in July 1763 as Britain briefly occupied Manila during the Seven Years' War. The current church and convento were built in 1774, and used as a shelter by Katipuneros during the 1898 Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire. It has since been renovated many times until the 1990s.
The Santo Tomas de Villanueva Church is the fourth oldest parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasig, following in the senior status of the churches of the Pasig Cathedral in Pasig, Santa Ana Shrine in Taguig and San Roque Parish in Pateros, Philippines. Santolan's 200-year-old patron is Sto. Tomas de Villanueva or Thomas of Villanova. The saint was a great Augustinian bishop and man of charity but unknown in the Manila area.
The Cobangbang Ancestral House is a heritage house in Manila, Philippines built in 1930 by Aurelio Cobangbang. It is located within the heritage zone of Santa Ana, the only district in Manila which was spared from destruction during World War II.
This is a list of historic houses in Santa Ana, Manila, the Philippines.
Jessie Lichauco is a Cuban-born American-Filipino who has resided in the Philippines since the 1930s with her husband, lawyer and diplomat Marcial Lichauco. They turned their home into a makeshift hospital during the Battle of Manila in World War II.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Metro Manila:
Radial Road 4, more commonly referred to as R-4, is a proposed network of roads and bridges that altogether would form the fourth radial road of Manila in the Philippines. The road would link the City of Manila with Makati and Pasig in the south and east, leading out of Metro Manila into the province of Rizal. R-4 parallels Radial Road 5 (R-5) on the south bank of the Pasig River. At present, only certain portions of the road are complete.
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the Philippine capital region of Metro Manila.
Regina Paz "Gina" La'O Lopez was a Filipino environmentalist and philanthropist who served as Secretary of the Philippines' Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in an ad interim basis under President Rodrigo Duterte. She was previously the Chairperson of the Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission under two consecutive administrations. Lopez was also a yoga missionary and a pioneer for corporate social responsibility.
Namayan is a barangay in the city of Mandaluyong, Philippines. It is located in the western part of the city near the border with Santa Ana, Manila and Carmona, Makati, separated from them by the Pasig River. The barangay covers an area of 30.60 hectares and is bordered by the barangays of Mabini–J.P. Rizal and Old Zañiga on the north, and Vergara on the east. According to the 2010 Census, it has a population of 5,706 people.
The Santa Ana Heritage Zone is a portion of the district of Santa Ana, Manila, Philippines, that was declared a heritage zone in 2014 by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP). A larger portion of district was previously declared a histo-cultural heritage/overlay zone by the city government of Manila in 2011.
The Mira-Nila House is a historic mansion building in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. Situated along Mariposa Street in Cubao, the building owned by the Benitez family is a declared Heritage House by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, and one of the only two such declared houses in Metro Manila along with the Lichauco Heritage House in Santa Ana, Manila. The building currently houses a museum.
