Malabon

Malabon, officially known as the City of Malabon (Tagalog: Lungsod ng Malabon), is a 1st

class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020
census, it has a population of 380,522 people.  [3]
Located just north of the city of Manila, it is primarily a residential and industrial area, 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, an area which
derives its name from the first syllable of its component cities: Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas,
and Valenzuela. 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.

Legend considers the city's name to be a contraction of the Tagalog phrase maráming

labóng ("plenty of bamboo shoots"), as the place once abounded in this edible root. Originally
called Tambobong (tambúbong, a rural Tagalog word for barn[5]), Malabon was founded as
a visita (hamlet) of Tondo by the Augustinians on May 21, 1599.[citation needed] It remained under the
administrative jurisdiction of the Province of Tondo (renamed to Manila in 1859) from 1627 to 1901.
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 Compañia 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. [6][7]
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.[8] When Act No. 942 was promulgated, Malabon was
united with Navotas under a new government.[9] On January 16, 1906, Act No. 1442 partitioned
Navotas from Malabon into two separate municipalities of Rizal. [10] The first Mayor of Malabon
was Don Agustín Salamante, a Spanish mestizo[citation needed] originally from Cavite. The first Filipino
Mayor of Malabon was Don Vicente P. Villongco. This was in 1899 at the onset of the American
regime.[citation needed] From 1942 to 1944, Malabon was one of the municipalities of Rizal merged
alongside Manila to form the City of Greater Manila as an emergency measure by President Manuel
L. Quezon.[11]
Malabon remained a municipality of Rizal until November 7, 1975, by virtue of Presidential Decree
No. 824, when Malabon became a part of the National Capital Region or Metro Manila.[12]
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. [31]
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 Antolin
Oreta III's wife Melissa Oreta, the next mayor of Malabon. [32]
The Malabon Zoo and Aquarium, located in Potrero, is a small zoo that features an array of caged
animals, along with an aquarium and gardens.
Culture
Main article: List of Cultural Properties in Malabon

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 December 8