Aurora Boulevard is a four-to-ten lane major thoroughfare in

Quezon City Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 2,960,048 people. It was fou ...

and San Juan in

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, Philippines. It was named after

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Aurora Quezon, the consort of Commonwealth

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. It is one of the major roads in the commercial district of

Araneta City Araneta City (stylized in all lowercase), formerly and still commonly known as Araneta Center, is a transit oriented, commercial mixed-use development in Quezon City, Philippines. Situated in Barangay Socorro in Cubao, and at the intersectio ...

Cubao Quezon City (, ; fil, Lungsod Quezon ), also known as the City of Quezon and Q.C. (read in Filipino as Kyusi), is the most populous city in the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 2,960,048 people. It was fou ...

. Line 2 follows the alignment of the boulevard.

Route description

Aurora Boulevard is divided into two routes, the Araneta Avenue to EDSA, and EDSA to

Katipunan Avenue Katipunan Avenue ( fil, Abenida Katipunan) is a major avenue in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It runs in a north–south direction from the University of the Philippines Diliman, intersecting with Tandang Sora Avenue at its northernmost ...

( C-5). Most of the road is a 4-lane dual carriageway, with Line 2 having five stations above ground, while one (

Katipunan station Katipunan station is an underground Manila Light Rail Transit (LRT) station situated on Line 2. It is the only underground station in the entire line. The station is located in Loyola Heights in Quezon City and is named because of its location ...

) is located underground. Aurora Boulevard starts as a physical extension of

Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard, also known simply as Magsaysay Boulevard and formerly as Santa Mesa Boulevard, is the principal artery of Santa Mesa in Manila, Philippines. It is a six-lane divided roadway that travels east–west from Gregorio Aran ...

past Araneta Avenue near the

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boundary. It then enters San Juan before crossing Ermitaño Creek near

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to return to Quezon City, this time at the

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district. It then intersects

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Balete Drive Balete Drive is an Single carriageway, undivided two-lane street and main List of roads in Metro Manila, thoroughfare of Mariana, Quezon City, New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines. The road is a major route of jeepneys and cabs, serving the New M ...

, and E. Rodriguez Sr. Avenue, before it meets EDSA. Past EDSA, it passes near the

in Cubao. The road continues eastward through

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Silangan, Quirino 3-A and Duyan-Duyan, until it ends at

( C-5) near the Quezon City-

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boundary. It continues eastward to Rizal province as Marcos Highway.

History

A road from

EDSA Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, commonly referred to by its acronym EDSA, is a limited-access circumferential highway around Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. It passes through 6 of Metro Manila's 17 local government units or citie ...

(Epifanio de los Santos Avenue), called Calle Quezon, was built in 1900. The section from

had been renamed San Juan Road, classified as Highway 53, and was also known as Calle Morales. The portion from Gilmore Avenue to Dewey Boulevard, named Marikina-Ermita Avenue in 1955, was later reclaimed as

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, and Ramon Magsaysay Boulevard. As the road was constructed as an extension of Santa Mesa Boulevard (now Magsaysay Boulevard), it was also called the Santa Mesa Boulevard Extension Road. The highway was then renamed Aurora Boulevard in 1963 to honor former First Lady Aurora Quezon, the assassinated consort of President

Manuel L. Quezon Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, (; 19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier and politician who served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his de ...

. Magnolia Ice Cream House ice cream parlor and factory, was located at the corner of Aurora Boulevard and Doña Hemady Street (now occupied by

Robinsons Magnolia Robinsons Magnolia is a shopping mall owned and operated by Robinsons Malls. The mall opened on August 13, 2012. It is the 32nd mall opened by Robinsons and the company’s third mall in Quezon City. It has a gross floor area of . Robinsons Magno ...

).
Official website - Robinsons Magnolia
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Intersections

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References

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