Malabon

Malabon
Malabon
Highly urbanized city
	City of Malabon, Lungsod ng Malabon
	Malabon City Hall
	Seal
	Map of Metro Manila with Malabon highlighted
	Malabon Location within the Philippines
	Coordinates: 14°40′N 120°58′E / 14.66°N 120.96°E
Country	Philippines
Region	National Capital Region
Province	none (Former part of Rizal province until 1975)
District	Lone district
Founded	May 21, 1599
Chartered	June 11, 1901
Cityhood and HUC	April 21, 2001
Barangays	21 (see Barangays)
Government
• Type	Sangguniang Panlungsod
• mayor of Malabon	Antolin A. Oreta III
• Vice Mayor	Jeannie Sandoval
• Congressman	Federico Sandoval II
• Councilors	List
• Electorate	258,115 voters (2022)
Area
• Total	15.71 km2 (6.07 sq mi)
Elevation	23 m (75 ft)
Population (2020 census)
• Total	380,522
• Density	24,000/km2 (63,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (PST)
PSGC	137502000
IDD : area code	+63 (0)02
Income class	1st city income class
Revenue (₱)	₱ 2,056 million (2020)
Native languages	Tagalog; English
Website	malabon.gov.ph

Malabon, officially the City of Malabon, Lungsod ng Malabon, (Template:Lang-tgl), or simply known as Malabon City, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 380,522 people.^[3]

Located just north of Manila, it is primarily a residential and industrial town and is one of the most densely populated cities in the metropolis. It has a total land area of 15.96 square kilometers.

Malabon is part of the sub-region of Metro Manila informally called CAMANAVA, which consists of CAloocan, MAlabon, NAvotas, and VAlenzuela cities. Caloocan lies to the south and east, Navotas to the west, and Valenzuela to the north. Malabon also borders the town of Obando in the province of Bulacan to the northwest.

History

Legend considers the city's name to be a contraction of the Tagalog phrase maraming labóng ("plenty of bamboo shoots"), as the place once abounded in this edible root. Originally called Tambobong, Malabon was founded as a visita (hamlet) of Tondo by the Augustinians on May 21, 1599. It remained under the administrative jurisdiction of the Province of Tondo from 1627 to 1688.

Malabon played an important economic role in the late 19th century with the founding of La Princesa Tabacalera tobacco company in 1851 and the Malabon Sugar Company in 1878. La Princesa was under the corporate umbrella of Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas (owned by the Spanish Crown), while the latter pioneered the refined sugar industry in the Philippines.

The newspaper La Independencia was first printed in Malabon's Asilo de Huérfanos (Orphanage), where children orphaned by the Plague of 1882 were housed.^[4]^[5]

Malabon was officially made a municipality of the newly created Province of Rizal on June 11, 1901 by virtue of Philippine Commission Act No. 137.^[6] When Act No. 942 was promulgated, Malabon was united with Navotas under a new government.^[7] On January 16, 1906, Act No. 1441 partitioned Malabon from Navotas into two separate municipalities of Rizal. The first Mayor of Malabon was Don Agustín Salamante, a Spanish mestizo originally from Cavite.

Malabon remained a municipality of Rizal until November 7, 1975, by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 824, when Malabon became a part of Metropolitan Manila or the National Capital Region. Malabon became a highly urbanized city on April 21, 2001, under Republic Act No. 9019, 407 years after its founding.

Geography

Malabon is one of the most densely populated cities in The Philippines and its low-lying, flat terrain makes it prone to frequent flooding, especially during high tides, heavy rains and when river and dams overflow. The four cities in CAMANAVA are commonly affected by interconnected rivers, one of which is the Tullahan River.

The river system used to be navigable and fishing was the major livelihood activity in the area. The river used to be wider and deeper with better quality water, and was a regular source of different species of fish, an important food source for local residents. Also, trees and crops like palay (rice) and vegetables used to be grown along the riverbanks. However, these agricultural plots have been replaced by industrial yards, which also became home to thousands of informal settlers who built makeshift dwellings without legal claim to the land.

Floods have worsened in recent years, occurring more frequently and reaching depths of several feet. Most affected are families in the communities that are along or near the riverbanks. The river has become narrower and shallower over the years, and its capacity to hold water has decreased. With more frequent intense rains, the riverbanks flood regularly and flooding reaches farther into low-lying and densely populated areas of the city^[8]

Barangays

Before the present-day Malabon, the town was originally composed of sitios (barangay) and others were further divided into two or more purok (zone).

Baritan
Bayan-bayanan
Concepcion
Dampalit
Hulong Duhat
Flores
Ibaba
Maysilo
Panghulo
San Agustin
Tañong
Tonsuya
Niugan
Longos
Tinajeros
Catmon
Potrero

Malabon City is now divided into 21 barangays.

District I

Baritan
Bayan-bayanan
Catmon
Concepcion
Dampalit
Flores
Hulong Duhat
Ibaba
Maysilo
Muzon
Niugan
Panghulo
San Agustin
Santolan
Tañong

District II

Acacia
Longos
Potrero
Tinajeros
Tonsuya
Tugatog

Demographics

Population census of Malabon

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1903	20,136	—
1918	21,695	+0.50%
1939	33,285	+2.06%
1948	46,455	+3.77%
1960	76,438	+4.24%
1970	141,514	+6.35%
1975	174,878	+4.34%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1980	191,001	+1.78%
1990	280,027	+3.90%
1995	347,484	+4.13%
2000	338,855	−0.54%
2007	363,681	+0.98%
2010	353,337	−1.04%
2015	365,525	+0.65%

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority^[9]^[10]^[11]^[12]

Religion

Malabon belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of under the episcopal seat of Bishop Pablo Virgilo David. Almost 80% of the people here adhere to this religion. The seat of the Bishop of Kalookan in Malabon is in San Roque Cathedral Parish, A. Mabini St. Caloocan City. Today there are eight Roman Catholic Parishes in Malabon: San Bartolome, Sto. Rosario, Immaculate Conception, Exaltation of the Cross, San Antonio de Padua, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Heart of Mary and Sts. Peter and John. Another parish church, Santa Clara of Assisi in Barangay Longos, is in the planning stages.

Other religions in Malabon include Iglesia Filipina Independiente (belongs to the Diocese of Rizal and Pampanga,Parish of La Purisima Concepcion de Malabon), Baptists, Jesus the Living Stone International Assembly of God, Iglesia ni Cristo or Church of Christ, Members of the Church of God International, Jesus Is Lord Church, IEMELIF and Seventh-day Adventist.

Economy

Malabon industries include sugar refinery, patis- (fish sauce) making, cigar-making, candle production, fishing and ilang-ilang flower-extract production (the distilled perfume is exported).

Tourism

The Malabon City Tourism Office launched the Malabon Tricycle Tours in December 2014. The tours take visitors to eight heritage sites including the newly renovated 400-year-old San Bartolome Church as well as to notable heritage houses like the Raymundo House and Ibaviosa House.^[13]

On March 14, 2015, the tours started to offer visitors a unique gastronomic experience through visits to the city's home-based eateries. This culinary aspect was the brainchild of current Mayor Antonlin Oreta III's wife Melissa Oreta, who is a chef by profession.^[14]

The Malabon Zoo and Aquarium, located in Potrero, is a small, humble zoo that features an array of caged animals, along with an aquarium and gardens.

Politics and government

On April 21, 2008, Malabon City’s newly constructed 11-storey city hall building along F. Sevilla Blvd. in Barangay San Agustin, was inaugurated by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Malabon’s 7th City anniversary. It was dubbed as a “potential business center of the city,” a one-stop shop for government transactions, due to its state-of-the-art facilities such as 3 high-speed elevators and the new city hall building and its offices' “digital system.”^[15]^[16]

The Sangguniang Kabataan Federation led by Von Paulo Oreta III (grandson of mayor Tito Oreta) developed a system of the politics which became the key to the acceleration of the development of cities with the help the other chairmen.

The city's representative to National Sangguniang Kabataan Federation of the Philippines is Noly Miranda of Navotas, whereby the city has won the award of "Best Implementing Rule And Objection Of The Year".

Culture

The city is considered as the local Venice, due to year-long floods and gradual sinking. The City of Malabon is a place famous for its Pancit Malabon and its predominantly Atlantic ambience. It is also famous for other variety of foods (kakanin), such as puto sulot, puto bumbong, sapin-sapin, broas, bibingka and camachile. The culinary delights are abundant in its specialty eateries.

Its most famous festival is the "Pagoda-Caracol", a fluvial procession with street dancing to commemorate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception every 8 December.

The city of Malabon is also home for famous personalities including Epifanio de los Santos (historian and hero), Timoteo Paez (hero), Nonoy Marcelo (cartoonist), Ildefonso Santos (poet) and his son Ildefonso P. Santos Jr. (National Artist in Architecture), Gregorio Sanciangco (writer), Loren Legarda (senator), Angelika de la Cruz (artist), Erik Santos (artist and singer), Rochelle Pangilinan (artist), Phil Younghusband (football player), and Dexter Facelo of Alamid band (Songwriter of the famous song Your Love).

Heritage houses

Malabon houses several old homes of historical value: the Dionisio family home, the Rivera house, the Villongco house, the Luna house, the Martinez house, the Chikiamco house, the Rojas-Borja house, the (Teodoro) Luna house, the Santos-Lapus house, the Pantaleon Bautista house, the Syjuco (formerly Gaza) house, and the Raymundo house, considered to be the oldest located along C. Arellano Street. Other old but well-preserved heritage houses in Malabon include the Asilo de Huérfanos, the Paez House, and the Nepomuceno House.^[17]

Education

Tertiary level

The De La Salle Araneta University is the seventh campus of De La Salle Philippines. It was formerly known as the Gregorio Araneta University Foundation which was established in 1946 as the Araneta Institute of Agriculture in Bulacan, then transferred to Malabon the year after. In 1978 it was renamed as the Gregorio Araneta University Foundation. Integration of the university to the DLS System started since 1987 and in 2002 became an official member of the system. The university specializes in Veterinary Medicine and Agricultural Sciences.
- As an agricultural University - Salikneta Farm (formerly known as Saliksik-Araneta) located at the City of San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan. Its total land area is 64 hectares of farmland originally owned by Gregorio Araneta University Foundation. The wide farmland is used for forestry and agricultural operations for student training purposes. Aside from serving as a laboratory and research facility, an agricultural-forestryecology- tourism-integrated farm complete with recreational facilities such as horse back riding, carabao cart-pulling for passengers, fishing, camping, mini-zoo and conference area is envisioned in Salikneta.

Arellano University-Jose Rizal Campus and Elisa Esguerra Campus, established in 1950, is the fifth campus of Arellano University.

The City of Malabon University (CMU) is the city university. It is located in Barangay Longos, Malabon City.

There are also TESDA-accredited schools in the city. It includes the City of Malabon Polytechnic Institute, I.Learn Center Philippines, St. Catherine Institute of Technology,and St. Amatiel College.

Secondary schools

Malabon National High School or MNHS is the pilot secondary school and the most populous school in the city. The school offers three curriculum: Engineering and Science Education Program (ESEP; popularly known as Special Science Class or SSC), Special Program in the Arts (SPA) and the K-to-12 Education Curriulum.
There are other twelve public secondary schools in Malabon namely the Malabon National High School and Malabon National High School-Concepcion Voc-Tech Annex, Tinajeros National High School and Tinajeros National High School-Acacia Annex, Catmon Integrated School, Col. Ramon Camus Integrated School, Longos National High School, Panghulo National High School, Potrero National High School, Tañong Integrated School, Tañong National High School and Tugatog National High School.
There are also a number of private schools in Malabon area such as Immaculate Conception Parochial School, St. James Academy, St. Therese of the Child Jesus to name a few.

Jose F. Oreta Hall of Justice Courts, Br. 73 & Br. 74, (presided by now SC Justice Bienvenido L. Reyes from 1990-2001) RTC (Catmon)
Malabon City Jail, Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (Catmon)
Office of the City Prosecutor (Catmon)
Halls of Justice Building, Br. 55 & Br. 56, Metropolitan Trial Courts of Malabon City & Navotas (Golden Dale Subdivision, Tenejeros)
Halls of Justice Building, RTC, Brs. 72, 73, 74, 169, 170 & Office of the Clerk of Court (Tenejeros)
Court room, sala of Br. 73, RTC (presided by Carlos M. Flores)