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  2. Metropolitan Manila Development Authority - Wikipedia

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    The former MMDA headquarters along EDSA and Orense Street in Makati. On November 7, 1975, President Ferdinand Marcos issued Presidential Decree No. 824 creating Metro Manila and its managing public corporation, the Metropolitan Manila Commission (MMC) after the residents of the affected cities and municipalities approved the creation of Metro Manila in a referendum held on February 27, 1975.

  3. Municipal annexation - Wikipedia

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    Municipal annexation is the legal process by which a city or other municipality acquires land as its jurisdictional territory (as opposed to simply owning the land the way individuals do). [1] The annexed land is typically not part of any other municipality.

  4. Land reclamation in Metro Manila - Wikipedia

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    Location in terms of Municipal Waters Operator Transporter Land reclamation project site Philippine Reclamation Authority 5,000 Naic, Tanza, Ternate, and Rosario, Cavite City Government of Pasay/SM Smart City Infrastructure Development Corporation: China Harbour Engineering Company; Boskalis; Pasay Harbor City: V.I.L Mines Inc./San Miguel ...

  5. Administrative divisions of Metro Manila - Wikipedia

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    Metro Manila, the capital region of the Philippines, is a large metropolitan area that has several levels of subdivisions. Administratively, the region is divided into seventeen primary local government units with their own separate elected mayors and councils who are coordinated by the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority, a national government agency headed by a chairperson directly ...

  6. League of Municipalities of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Its creation and purpose is mandated by Section 496 of the Republic Act 7160, otherwise known as the Local Government Code of 1991, as amended, which states: . There shall be an organization of all municipalities to be known as league of municipalities for the primary purpose of ventilating, articulating and crystallizing issues affecting municipal government administration, and securing ...

  7. Municipalities of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Municipal districts, which were in essence unincorporated areas presided over by local tribal chiefs set up by American authorities, were created for the first time in 1914. [14] More municipalities were created during this time, especially in Mindanao where there was a massive influx of settlers from the Luzon and the Visayas. [ 15 ]

  8. Land Registration Authority (Philippines) - Wikipedia

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    The Land Registration Authority (LRA; Filipino: Pangasiwaan sa Patalaan ng Lupain) is an agency of the Philippine government attached to the Department of Justice responsible for issuing decrees of registration and certificates of title and register documents, patents and other land transaction for the benefit of landowners, agrarian reform-beneficiaries and the registering public in general ...

  9. Land reform in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The American government—officially secular, hostile to continued Spanish control of much of the land of the now-American colony, and long hostile to Catholics—negotiated a settlement with the Church handing over its land. The 1902 Philippine Organic Act was a constitution for the Insular Government, as the U.S. civil administration was ...