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NLEX Segment 8
The North Luzon Expressway (NLEX), signed as E1 of the Philippine expressway network, partially as N160 of the Philippine highway network, and R-8 of the Metro Manila arterial road network, is a limited-access toll expressway that connects Metro Manila to the provinces of the Central Luzon region in the Philippines. The expressway, which includes the main segment and its various spurs, has a total length of and travels from its northern terminus at Sta. Ines Interchange to its southern terminus in Balintawak Interchange, which is adjacent to its connection to Skyway, an elevated toll road that connects the NLEX to its counterpart in the south, the South Luzon Expressway. The segment of the expressway between Santa Rita Exit in Guiguinto and the Balintawak Interchange in Quezon City is part of Asian Highway 26 of the Asian highway network. The expressway also serves as a major utility corridor, carrying various high voltage overhead power lines through densely populated areas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Maharlika Highway
The Pan-Philippine Highway, also known as the Maharlika Highway ( tl, Daang Maharlika; ceb, Dalang Halangdon), is a network of roads, expressways, bridges, and ferry services that connect the islands of Luzon, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao in the Philippines, serving as the country's principal transport backbone. Measuring long excluding sea routes, it is the longest highway in the Philippines that forms the country's north–south backbone component of National Route 1 (N1) of the Philippine highway network. The entire highway is designated as Asian Highway 26 (AH26) of the Asian Highway Network. The northern terminus of the highway is in Laoag and the southern terminus is in Zamboanga City. History The Pan-Philippine Highway System was an infrastructure program of President Diosdado Macapagal as a first priority project for the improvement and expansion of Philippine highway and land transport networks. It was stated in his final State of the Nation Address in 1965 tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilao
Marilao, officially the Municipality of Marilao ( tgl, Bayan ng Marilao), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 254,453 people. With the continuous expansion of Metro Manila, the municipality is part of Manila's built-up area which reaches San Ildefonso on its northernmost part. Marilao is from Manila and from Malolos City. Marilao is one of the 21 Philippine municipalities that have met the requirements for cityhood set by the Constitution and Local Government Code of the Republic of the Philippines and as agreed upon by the League of Cities of the Philippines (LCP). History Long before the establishment as an independent town, Marilao traces its origin as little as a ''barrio''. It was initially a ''barrio'' of its neighboring town Meycauayan and the Franciscan missionaries from Meycauayan built a ''visita'' (chapel) dedicated to Saint Michael the Archangel. Marilao, just like Pangil, a to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calumpit
Calumpit, officially the Municipality of Calumpit ( tgl, Bayan ng Calumpit), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 118,471 people. Etymology The name "''Calumpit''" comes from the tree "'' Kalumpít''", an indigenous hardwood species similar to ''apalit'' and narra, which grows abundantly in front of the St. John the Baptist Parish Church in the Población-Sucol area. History Precolonial era Calumpit was already an established ''barangay'' under the leadership of Gat Maitim prior to the Fall of the Kingdom of Tondo in June 1571. Other nearby villages were Gatbuka, Meyto, Meysulao, Pandukot, Malolos, Macabebe, Hagonoy, Bulacan, Hagonoy, and Apalit. When Calumpit was hispanised and established as a political and geographical entity in 1572, they chose what is today Barangay Población as the site of the church and the administrative center of the aforementioned villages, which were annexed t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balagtas, Bulacan
Balagtas, officially the Municipality of Balagtas ( tgl, Bayan ng Balagtas), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 77,018 people. With the continuous expansion of Metro Manila, the municipality is now part of Manila's built up area which reaches San Ildefonso in its northernmost part. Balagtas is from Manila and is from Malolos City. Formerly known as Bigaa, it was renamed in honor of Filipino poet Francisco Balagtas. The MacArthur Highway bisects the municipality of Balagtas as this national road cuts northward to the Ilocos region. At the southern approach of the town from Manila is a concrete bridge that crosses the Balagtas River. The river, navigable by banca and motor boats, empties into Manila bay after snaking through the town of Bulacan to the West which provides Balagtas' townsfolk with fish, shrimp, and other fresh water food. At the foot of the bridge, along the highway towards th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bocaue, Bulacan
Bocaue, officially the Municipality of Bocaue ( tgl, Bayan ng Bocaue), is a 1st class municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 141,412 people. With the continuous expansion of Metro Manila, the municipality is now part of Greater Manila Area, Manila's built-up area which reaches San Ildefonso, Bulacan, San Ildefonso in its northernmost part. The Bocaue River runs through most of the town. Among its tourist attractions are a town museum located near the municipality's center and the town's river festival celebrated on the first Sunday of every July. The river festival is in commemoration of the Holy Cross of Wawa, believed to be miraculous by the town's predominantly Roman Catholic population. Etymology The town's name comes from the Old Tagalog word "''Bukawe''", which refers to a type of long bamboo (''Schizostachyum lima, Schyzostachyum lima''). History Boca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apalit
Apalit, officially the Municipality of Apalit ( pam, Balen ning Apalit; tl, Bayan ng Apalit), is a 1st class municipality in the province of Pampanga, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 117,160 people. The town is famous for its Apung Iru Fluvial Procession, which is listed as one of the most significant water-based intangible cultural heritage of the Philippines. The festival happens every June 28–30. Geography Apalit is from Manila, from the provincial capital, San Fernando, and from Angeles. Apalit is surrounded by Macabebe, Masantol, Minalin and San Simon in Pampanga, and Calumpit, Pulilan, and Baliuag in Bulacan. Barangays Apalit is politically subdivided into 12 barangays: * Balucuc (Nuestra Señora de la Divina Pastora) * Calantipe (Santo Niño) * Cansinala (Nuestra Señora del Rosario) * Capalangan (Holy Cross) * Colgante (Holy Family) * Paligui (Chair of St. Peter / Apung Iru) * Sampaloc (San Roque) * San Juan (San Juan Nepomuceno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meycauayan
Meycauayan, officially the City of Meycauayan ( fil, Lungsod ng Meycauayan), is a 3rd class component city in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 225,673 people. It is one of the oldest towns in the province. The city is located north of Manila and south of Malolos City, the provincial capital city. It is bounded by the town of Marilao to the north, the two Metro Manila cities of Valenzuela to the south and Caloocan (North) to the east, and the town of Obando to the west. It encompasses an aggregate area of , representing 1.17% of the total land area of the province of Bulacan. Etymology Meycauayan got its name came from the words "may kawayan", translated to English as "with bamboo". It is formerly called as Mecabayan. History During the Spanish colonization of the country, the town of Meycauayan was established as a settlement by a group of Spanish priests belonging to the Franciscan Order. In 1578, its early inhabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malolos
Malolos, officially the City of Malolos ( fil, Lungsod ng Malolos), is a 1st class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, component city and capital of the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 261,189 people. It is the capital city of the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Bulacan as the seat of the provincial government. The city is north of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. It is one of the major suburbs conurbated to Metro Manila, situated in the southwestern part of Bulacan, in the Central Luzon Regions of the Philippines, Region (Region 3) in the island of Luzon and part of the Super regions of the Philippines, Metro Luzon Urban Beltway Super Region. Malolos was the site of the Constitutional convention (political meeting), constitutional convention of 1898, known as the Revolutionary Government of the Philippines, Malolos Convention, that led to the establishment o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angeles City
, anthem = Himno ning Angeles (Angeles Hymn) , subdivision_type3 = District , subdivision_name3 = , established_title = Settled , established_date = 1796 , established_title1 = Chartered , established_date1 = December 8, 1829 , established_title2 = Cityhood , established_date2 = January 1, 1964 , established_title3 = Highly urbanized city , established_date3 = October 13, 1986 , parts_type = Barangays , parts_style = para , p1 = (see Barangays) , leader_title = , leader_name = Carmelo G. Lazatin Jr. , leader_title1 = Vice Mayor , leader_name1 = Maria Vicenta L. Vega , leader_title2 = Representative , leader_name2 = Carmelo B. Lazatin II , leader_title3 = Councilors , leader_name3 = , leader_title4 = Electorate , le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balintawak Cloverleaf
The Balintawak Interchange , also known as the Balintawak Cloverleaf, is a two-level cloverleaf interchange in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines which serves as the junction between Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA) and the North Luzon Expressway (NLEx). Opened in 1968 as part of the initial NLEx segment between Quezon City and Guiguinto, Bulacan, it was one of the first projects of the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines, now the Philippine National Construction Corporation (PNCC). Construction of the interchange was precipitated by the large number of motor vehicles in Manila and the surrounding suburbs in the 1960s, which contributed to significant traffic congestion. On June 25, 1966, President Ferdinand Marcos ordered the Department of Public Works to undertake the construction of a number of road projects to be financed through World War II reparations, including the construction of interchanges on vital intersections along EDSA.Office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andres Bonifacio Avenue, Quezon City
Andres Bonifacio Avenue, also known as A. Bonifacio Avenue, is a national secondary road connecting the North Luzon Expressway and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue at Balintawak Interchange in Quezon City and Blumentritt Road at the city's boundary with Manila in a north–south direction. Etymology The road is named after the Filipino revolutionary and ''Supremo'' of the Katipunan, Andres Bonifacio alongside other similarly named roads located in Metro Manila like as the one in Marikina and in Intramuros. Route description The road starts at the Balintawak Interchange in Quezon City and continues until the intersection with Del Monte Avenue and Mayon Street where it makes a westward turn and continues until arriving at the intersection with Blumentritt Road at the city's boundary with Manila. A segment of Skyway Stage 3 currently runs above the avenue's segment from Sgt. Rivera and 5th Avenues ( C-3) to the Balintawak Interchange. Adjacent to the Balintawak Interchange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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