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Tandang Sora Avenue (formerly known as Banlat Road) [2] is a major east-west thoroughfare bisecting Quezon City in Metro Manila, Philippines.It is a two-to-six-lane highway and municipal road that runs for 9.6 kilometers (6.0 mi) from its eastern terminus at Magsaysay Avenue in Pansol and U.P. Campus in Diliman to its western terminus at Quirino Highway in Baesa and Talipapa in Novaliches ...
Quezon City, the most populous city in the Philippines, is politically subdivided into 142 barangays. All of Quezon City's barangays are classified as urban. [1] These barangays are grouped into six congressional districts, with each district represented by a congressman in the House of Representatives. As of July 2, 2012, President Benigno S ...
Historical marker. The Tandang Sora Shrine was "restored" by the Quezon City government in 2005 as a tribute to Melchora Aquino [4] and the shrine was built in 2008 [2] during the tenure of then-Quezon City Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. Prior to the shrine's construction, a marker is already present near the site of the shrine although it is generally hidden from view from the public by houses.
Quezon City bills itself as the ICT capital of the Philippines. [120] Quezon City was the first Local Government Unit (LGU) in the Philippines with a computerized real estate assessment and payment system, which was developed in 2015 that contains around 400,000 property units with capability to record payments.
The Tandang Sora Women's Museum had a soft opening on January 6, 2025 coinciding with the 213rd birth anniversary of its namesake Melchora Aquino. It was later inaugurated on February 19, 2025. [ 2 ] Torrijos became the first curator of the facility which is considered as the first women's museum in the Philippines.
National Route 129 (N129), or Route 129, is a secondary national route in Metro Manila that forms part of the Philippine highway network. [1] [2] [3] Entirely located within Quezon City, it comprises Congressional Avenue, Congressional Avenue Extension, a portion of Luzon Avenue, a portion of Tandang Sora Avenue, and a portion of Katipunan Avenue; most of them are part of C-5 except the EDSA ...
[2] [3] These original four cities of Metro Manila (Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan, Pasay) comprise 83% (1,428 of 1,710) of all these. The high number is attributed to these areas having more people and higher density when the barangay system was initiated (note that Caloocan North is sparsely populated then and consequently was given a lower ...
The legislative districts of Quezon City are the representations of the highly urbanized city of Quezon in the various national and local legislatures of the Philippines.At present, the province is represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines by its six congressional districts, with the districts' representatives being elected every three years.