BACKGROUND OF SITE

4114 Governor's Dr, Brgy. Dasmariñas, 4114 Cavite

14°18'09.7"N 120°57'18.3"E
14.302681, 120.955093

Technical description
line Cardinal degree minutes Cardinal distance
directions directions
1-2 N 86 ° 57” E 97.77m
2-3 S 9° 13” E 64.57m
3-4 S 2° 42” E 26.48m
4-5 S 5° 36” E 3.78m
5-6 S 78 ° 28” W 100.3m
6-1 N 4° 53” W 109.32m
Major road Line 1-2 8m
Minor road Line 2-5 5m
RROW Description

DASMARINAS CITY CLIMATE

Located at an elevation of 137.46 meters (450.98 feet) above sea level, Dasmariñas has a Tropical wet
and dry or savanna climate (Classification: Aw). The district’s yearly temperature is 27.49ºC (81.48ºF)
and it is 0.27% higher than Philippines’s averages. Dasmariñas typically receives about 40.0 millimeters
(1.57 inches) of precipitation and has 92.98 rainy days (25.47% of the time) annually.
Climate Dasmariñas: Weather by Month

TOPOGRAPHY/LAND AREA
Dasmariñas is partly lowland and partly hill The Población itself is elevated from an elevation of
80 meters at the Población, the land isles to 250 meters towards Silang Generally, land neat
rivers and creeks as rugged Dasmarina’s is outside the typhoon belt and has no fault Ine
constraints. Further, it is served by a natural damage system since it has traversed by several
rivers and water tributaries draining to Manila Bay. The city has yet to experience floods [25]
Strongly sloping to elevated areas cover approximately 1,531 16 hectares or 1 61% of the total
area. Template Citation needed These are dispersed among Burgl, Langkaan. Paliparan, Salawag,
Sampaloc, and San Agustin Areas with slopes of 10.1 to 18% cover about $75.72 hectares of
land in portions of Salawag. Salitran, Burol, and other parts. On the other hand, gently sloping or
undulating areas comprise merely 710 4 hectares or 8 62% of the total land area while undulating
areas with a slope of 2 6 to 3% account for the biggest percentage of 50 39% of the total land
area equivalent to 4, 165 64 hectares of land which are dispersed over the municipality except for
Sabang and San Jose.
 Satellite map of Dasmarinas

ETYMOLOGY
Dasmariñas was named after Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas, the 7th Spanish governor-general of the
Philippines who served from 1590 to 1593. After his death, his son Luis Pérez Dasmariñas became the
governor-general from 1593 to 1596. Pérez Dasmariñas came from San Miguel das Negradas of Viveiro,
in Galicia, Spain.
Dasmariñas literally means "from As Mariñas" (coastal region of Lugo combining the comarcas of A
Mariña Occidental, A Mariña Central and A Mariña Oriental), coming itself from mariño ("of the coast,
seaside or shore" in the Galician language, the native tongue from Viveiro Galicia, Spain), and this from
mar ("sea").

Dasmariñas (colloquially shortened to Dasma), officially the City of Dasmariñas (Filipino: Lungsod ng
Dasmariñas), is a 1st class component city in the province of Cavite, Philippines. With a land area of 90.1
square kilometers (34.8 sq mi) and a population of 703,141 people according to the 2020 census, it is the
largest city both in terms of area and population in Cavite.
 Being located just 10 kilometers (6.2 mi) from Imus and 30 kilometers (19 mi) south of Manila, the
growing congestion and outward urban expansion of the Manila Metropolitan area has led to its rapid
development in the late 1900s. This growth is manifested by the influx of major shopping malls,
hospitals, universities, banks, industrial parks, and the growing number of residential subdivisions
accommodating its growing population.

(Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas)

DEMOGRAPHICS
In the 2020 census, the population of Dasmariñas, was 703,141 people, with a density of 7,800
inhabitants per square kilometer or 20,000 inhabitants per square mile.
From the original 643 inhabitants of the old Perez-Dasmariñas, the population grew and so did
the town. By 1888, there were already more than 4,576 people living in Perez Dasmariñas.
Gradually, the economic life of the people improved. The inquilinos (lessees) of the hacienda
rose to become middle class. Dasmariñas, 8,664 hectares were all farmed in 1890 except for
3,770 hectares (including parcels at Gatdula and Balimbing). Lessees paid the usual land rent
based on the measurement of lowland and upland riceland set up by the "uldog" (friar
administrator) of casa hacienda de Salitran. In the 1880s, there were 200 quinones of dry and 50
quinones of wet rice lands yielding some 2,300 Cavannas of palay, 5,000 piculs of muscovado
sugar, 50 Cavan's of corn and camote, 60 piculs of tao and 25 piculs of peanuts. Dasmariñas was
a highly advanced town where not only textiles from Batangas and Bulacan looms, but also
imported European cloth from Manila reached the town elites. Fish and other staple foods,
however, still came from nearby towns. Surprisingly until 1880, there was no public market in
the town. There was a principal public dirt road in Perez-Dasmariñas that went to Silang which
was passable to all kinds of vehicle only during dry season, but reachable only by foot and
horseback during wet season. By 1870, mails from Manila were received at a central station in
Cavite Puerto where it was sorted. Mails were brought via Kawit, then Imus then Dasmariñas.
Culturally, Perez-Dasmariñas was not too behind for by 1874 there were already two competing
brass bands in the town. Don Valeriano Campos, an inquilino and a former gobernadorcillo of
the town (1879 to 1881) organized one of the brass bands. He was popularly known as Capitang
Vale. He was the highest taxpayer and owned a house made of cogon and wood on Calle Real
with an appraised value of P300. His son Placido Campos learned his trade and also considered a
man of means. Manuela Monzon, another well to do woman owned a house at the town's main
street. The house made of nipa and wood was valued at P200 and was rented as a boys' school
for P72.
Nonetheless in 1892, there was a noticeable decrease of the male population. As conflict between
the friar-hacenderos, the inquilinos and casamas multiplied more people went into hiding in the
deep forest of Perez-Dasmariñas. The rise of tulisanismo in Cavite was often connected with
agrarian problems in the hacienda town owned by the friars.
The city has 75 barangays, has more than 180 subdivisions and the biggest resettlement area in
the Philippines, the Dasmariñas Bagong Bayan (DBB).
Most affluent families from Metro Manila and nearby towns and provinces have chosen
Dasmariñas to be their home due to its proximity to the National Capital Region. The mass
exodus of people here in Dasmariñas is also brought about by the industrial boom which brought
about more jobs. There are also a big number of foreign residents such as Koreans, Chinese,
Japanese, Americans, Hindus, Britons and Eurasians. Because of this, Dasmariñas can be also
considered as the "Melting Pot" of Cavite.

Population census of Dasmariñas

Year Pop. ±% p.a.

1903 3,028 —

1918 3,875 +1.66%

1939 8,323 +3.71%

1948 9,012 +0.89%

1960 11,744 +2.23%

1970 17,948 +4.33%

1975 22,805 +4.92%

1980 51,894 +17.87%

1990 136,556 +10.16%

 1995 262,406 +13.02%

2000 379,520 +8.23%

2007 556,330 +5.42%

2010 575,817 +1.26%

2015 659,019 +2.60%

2020 703,141 +1.28%

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority [31] [32] [33][34]