ThE national capital region (ncr)

NATIONAL
CAPITAL REGION

(NCR)

METRO MANILA

On November 7, 1975, Metro

Manila was formally established

through Presidential Decree No.

824. The Metropolitan Manila

.

Commission was also created

to manage the region. On June

2, 1978, through Presidential

Decree No. 1396, the

metropolitan area was

declared the National Capital

Region of the Philippines.

SIXTEEN CITIES IN
METRO MANILA

The 16 cities include Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela,
Quezon City, Marikina, Pasig, Taguig, Makati, Manila,
Mandaluyong, San Juan, Pasay, Parañaque, Las Piñas, and
Muntinlupa. Pateros is the lone municipality in the region. Each of
the 16 cities and one municipality in Metro Manila is governed by
a Mayor.

CALOOCAN Founded in 1762, it became a municipality in
CITY 1815. Caloocan suffered much damage during
World War II. Now part of Greater Manila, it is
a growing centre of industrialization as well
as a residential suburb. Processed foods,
textiles, and engineering products are its
main industries.

According to legend, Malabon got its name MALABON
from the words “maraming labong” (plenty of CITY
bamboo shoots). This was originally called as
Tambobong and was founded by the
Augustinian friars as a “Visita” of Tondo on
May 21, 1599. It remained under this
administrative jurisdiction from 1627 to 1688.

NAVOTAS When the Philippine Revolution broke out
in 1896, Navotas formally joined the
Valenzuela was named after Pío revolutionary government of Gen. Emilio
Aguinaldo on August 6, 1898. On June 11,
Valenzuela, a physician and a member of 1901, the town of Navotas was
incorporated into the newly created
the Katipunan, a secret society founded province of Rizal by virtue of Philippine
Commission Act No. 137.
against the colonial government of Spain.
VALENZUELA
The city, as a town, was originally called

as Polo, initially formed in 1621 after

separation from Meycauayan, Bulacan.

QUEZON Named for President Manuel Luis Quezon, who
CITY selected the site (formerly a private estate) in
1939, it officially replaced Manila as the capital
in 1948. Considered part of Metropolitan Manila,
the city began to grow after World War II (1939–
45) with the construction of government buildings
on Capitol Site

Marikina was founded three hundred MARIKINA
righty-three years ago when the Jesuits
arrived in 1630. They called the area
Jesus dela Peña (Jesus of the Rocks). It
was later called Mariquina and a parish
was established there in 1687. Fishing
and farming were the main source of
livelihood.

PASIG On 26 July 1994, the Senate and the House of
CITY Representative enacted Republic Act 7829
converting the Municipality of Pasig into a
highly urbanized city. On 8 December 1994,
President Fidel V. Ramos signed it into law.
The people of Pasig ratified this through a
plebiscite on 21 January 1995

Between the years 1582 and 1583, Taguig TAGUIG
was part of the encomienda of Tondo CITY
headed by an alcalde mayor, Captain
Vergara. It was in 1587 when Taguig was
established as a separate "pueblo" (town) of
the then province of Manila. Captain Juan
Basi was its Kapitan from 1587 to 1588.

In 1890, San Pedro de Makati was decreed a

public town of Manila. After the Americans

MAKATI took over the control of the island of Luzon
CITY
from the Spaniards at the turn of the 20th
In the late 16th century Manila was a
walled Muslim settlement whose ruler century, San Pedro de Makati was
levied customs duties on all commerce
passing up the Pasig River. Spanish incorporated into the province of Rizal under
conquistadors under the leadership of
Miguel López de Legazpi—first Spanish Commonwealth Act No. 137 in June 11, 1901.
governor-general of the Philippines—
entered the mouth of the river in 1571. MANILA

MANDALUYONG There are different stories on the origin of
the ancient name “Mandaluyong”. Legend
says that the city was named after the
romance of a tribal couple, Manda and
Luyong. Manda was a lovely daughter of a
Barangay chieftain, while Luyong was a
Maharlika despised by Manda’s father.

Before the Spaniards came, San Juan was SAN JUAN
just a village and was part of the Kingdom CITY
of Namayan and ruled by King
Lacantagean and his wife Bouan. When
the Spaniards took possession of the
kingdom, they renamed it to Sta. Ana de
Sapa, the village was still a part of it but
became a small encomienda by 1590.

PASAY In local folk history about the period before the
CITY arrival of Spanish colonizers, Pasay is said to
have been part of Namayan (sometimes also
called Sapa), a confederation of barangays
which supposedly controlled territory stretching
from Manila Bay to Laguna de Bay, and which,
upon the arrival of the Spanish, eventually
became known as Santa Ana de Sapa (modern
day Santa Ana, Manila).

when Parañaque became a part of PARANAQUE
Metropolitan Manila or the National Capital CITY
Region. Parañaque was later converted as the
eleventh city of Metro Manila on February 15,
1998, and was chartered and urbanized by
then President Fidel V. Ramos during the
celebration of the city's 418th Founding
Anniversary.

LAS PINAS Las Piñas was one of the earliest fishing
CITY settlements on the shores of Manila Bay and
was proclaimed a town either in 1762 or 1797.
Its exact date of creation cannot be
ascertained because historical records vary.
Cavada, a Spanish historian and Fr. Juan
Medina placed it at 1762, while Buzeta
recorded the date at 1797.

There are three plausible origins of the name of the city: MUNTINLUPA
First, is its association with the thin topsoil in the area; CITY
second, residents, purportedly replying to a question by
Spaniards in the 16th century what the name of their place
was, said “Monte sa Lupa”—apparently mistaking the
question for what card game they were playing; third, the
topographical nature of the area, where the term Monte or
mountain was expanded to Muntinlupa or mountain land.
Based on the 1987 Philippine constitution, it is spelled as
Muntinglupa, instead of Muntinlupa

FAMOUS TOURISTS SPOTS

MANILA OCEAN
PARK

RIZAL PARK MANILA ZOO

FAMOUS TOURISTS SPOTS

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF
THE PHILIPPINES

DIAMANTAIRE

MANILA BAYWALK

FAMOUS TOURISTS SPOTS

CULTURAL CENTER

FORT SANTIAGO LA LOMA CEMETERY

METRO MANILA

National Capital Region and the prime tourist destination
in the Philippines. It is located on the island of Luzon,
bordered by the province of Bulacan on the north, Rizal on
the east, Laguna on the south, Cavite on the southwest,
and Manila Bay on the west.