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Old Tagalog word, meaning "to dig", referring to the digging for treasures in the area in its early history. [7] Bignay: Valenzuela: Named for the bignay tree. [9] Binondo: Manila: Spanish rendering of the old Tagalog name binundok, meaning mountainous or hilly. Buli: Muntinlupa: Named for the buri palm. Bungad: Quezon City: Filipino word for ...
The Arroceros Forest Park is considered as the "last lung of Manila". [183] Metro Manila is situated in a variety of ecosystems including upland forests, mangrove forests, mudflats, sandy beaches, sea grass meadows and coral reefs. Metro Manila is home to urban parks, nature parks, plazas, nature reserves, and an arboretum.
Laguna (Spanish for "lake," or "lagoon," referring to the large body of freshwater (Laguna de Bay, Spanish for "Lake of Bay") that was named after the province's first capital, the town of Bay.) [5] Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental ( Negros is Spanish for "blacks," referring to the dark-skinned Negritos that inhabited the island.
Manila is the evolved Spanish form of the native place name Maynilà, which comes from the Tagalog phrase may-nilà ("where indigo is found"). [2] Nilà is derived from the Sanskrit word nīla which refers to indigo, and, by extension, to several plant species from which this natural dye can be extracted.
Map of ancient Manila in 1570. The polity of Maynila shown in yellow.. Manila, to the extent that it has this placename, was likely founded in the Middle Ages, in the early 16th century [13] due to the Sanskrit origin of the component "nila" in its name which refers to "indigo", [14] and the prevalence of the placename during the rule of Rajah Matanda, the old king of Maynila, who was born ...
America's First Chinatown, in reference to Spanish Manila's (and eventually American Manila's) Binondo, the world's oldest Chinatown. [10] City of Man, a nickname given to the city by Imelda Marcos in the 1970s which was also the name of her tourism and infrastructure development campaign for the city as governor of Metro Manila.
Manila: n/a: Metro Manila: Pearl of the Orient See also: Nicknames of Manila: Marawi: Lanao del Sur: Bangsamoro: Islamic City Due to its Muslim-majority population and historic roots with Islam. Marawi was declared as an "Islamic City" by the city council in 1980. [56] [57] Marikina: n/a: Metro Manila: Shoe Capital of the Philippines After the ...
Metro Manila was then headed by First Lady Imelda Marcos as its governor. Due to this, Valenzuela is the only area in the modern National Capital Region that was neither part of Spanish colonial-era Manila , Rizal province, nor the war-time City of Greater Manila .