Dalandanan is one of the highly developed

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s in

Valenzuela, Metro Manila Valenzuela (, Tagalog: ), officially the City of Valenzuela ( fil, Lungsod ng Valenzuela), 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 714,978 peopl ...

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. It was named after the impressive line of

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trees that used to distinguish the area. Dalandanan houses the new Valenzuela City Astrodome, Valenzuela Emergency Hospital and Dialysis Center, and Valenzuela City Science High School. It boasts of different business industries like banking and finance (

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, BDO,

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, and

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), retail (

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Valenzuela, Wilcon Depot), pyrotechnic (

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), and biotech and pharmaceuticals (

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). The Iglesia ni Cristo Locale of Malinta chapel is also located along

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. The now-defunct Manila-Dagupan Railway opened in 1892 and traversed the barrios of Marulas, Caruhatan, Malinta, Dalandanan and Malanday, with the station being in Dalandanan.

Education

The barangay has 3 public educational facilities for elementary, and high school.

References

External links

Dalandanan, Valenzuela
Barangays of Metro Manila Valenzuela, Metro Manila {{MetroManila-geo-stub