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Tambo () is a coastal barangay located in
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,
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, Philippines. It is situated south of
Baclaran Baclaran is a barangay located in the northern area of the city of Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is also known to be located at the borders of the cities of Parañaque and Pasay. Because of its proximity to the shore of Manila Bay, ...
, adjoining the
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complex to the east. The approximate boundaries are T. Alonzo Street and Asean Avenue in Baclaran to the north, McDonough Road and Don Galo to the south, with the
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, Pildera Street in Pasay, and Cut-Cut Creek to the east, and
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to the west. Across the stream in the east, Tambo is bordered by the
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district of Maricaban (Barangays 191–200) and the Parañaque barangay of Santo Niño (former Ibayo), where the international airport is located. It also administers most of the Aseana City business district and the
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area, both situated in the Manila Bay reclamation area called Bay City. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 26,928.


History

Tambo was named for the tiger grass used to make brooms () that grew there in abundance during the Spanish colonial period. It may have also been named for the lodging houses () that stood in this former colonial beach strip which was one of the earliest barrios established in the Augustinian missionary town of Parañaque. Prior to the reclamation of
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(former Dewey Boulevard) during the
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, Tambo was a popular beach destination for Manila residents with resorts such as Aroma and El Faro lining the Manila Bay coast. On July 15, 1898, the First California Volunteers established Camp Dewey in a coastal forest in Tambo just north of Don Galo at the height of the
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. This military camp in Tambo would remain under U.S. Army possession throughout the
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and until 1937 when it was converted into a
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camp named Camp Claudio by President
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. In the early 1900s, the barrio was the location of several seaside mansions and became an elite enclave by the latter part of the American colonial period. One such mansion is the
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style Palacio de Memoria (former Villaroman Mansion) built in the 1930s beside the Los Tamaraos Polo Club, a sports and social club founded by
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and his brothers which was housed in a Georgian style building built in 1937. The mansion is now used as an auction house owned by
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. The beach that used to stretch from
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in the north - where the
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was originally located - to
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in the south - where Jale Beach (presumably owned by the Jalandoni and Ledesma families) was located - was gradually replaced by Dewey Boulevard (now
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) after
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. In 1957, Barangay Tambo acquired the land between Cut-cut Creek and
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. In 1965, barrio Tambo was excised, alongside barrio
Baclaran Baclaran is a barangay located in the northern area of the city of Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is also known to be located at the borders of the cities of Parañaque and Pasay. Because of its proximity to the shore of Manila Bay, ...
, from Parañaque to form part of the newly-established municipality of Baclaran. However, the
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later voided the creation of the new municipality, thus returning the aforementioned barrios to Parañaque. It was converted into a barangay alongside all other barrios in the Philippines in 1974. On April 3, 1978, subdivisions such as the Baltao, Airlane Village, Jetlane Village, Gat Mendoza, and Vitalez were separated from Tambo to form a new independent barangay called
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, by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 1327. In 1985, the
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was opened on another reclaimed area in the southern section of Tambo as an extension of Roxas Boulevard. The barangay was enlarged again with the creation of Bay City west of Roxas Boulevard by the Philippine Reclamation Authority in the 1970s and 1980s as part of the South Reclamation Project under Boulevard 2000. It added of land area to Parañaque and which it now shares with neighboring Don Galo. Tambo's shoreline is now approximately west of its original coast. In 2003, the former American military camp known as Camp Claudio was transformed into a housing and urban development site by the national government. In 2008, the Aseana Business Park project began. In 2013,
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, the first
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of
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, was opened in the reclaimed portion west of Tambo (
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).


Education

The barangay is home to the following educational institutions: * Camp Claudio Elementary School * Nativity House of Learning * Parañaque Christian School * Parañaque National High School (Tambo Annex) * Tambo Elementary School


Transportation

Tambo is a major transportation hub in southwest Metro Manila. It is located along the busy Baclaran-Bay City traffic corridor south of
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where several major thoroughfares are routed through. The main north–south highways servicing Tambo are
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in the north and the
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in the south, with
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and the elevated
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separating them and providing access to
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and
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on either ends.
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is the main street in the barangay's Bay City section which runs parallel to José W. Diokno Boulevard further west linking these mixed-use developments and gaming hubs in Manila's new tourist belt. On the barangay's old eastern section runs the north–south
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connecting Tambo to Don Galo and La Huerta to the south. It is also linked to Roxas Boulevard through the narrow Old Airport Road and to the airport complex through
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. The
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is located at the Asia World subdistrict of Bay City by the barangay's border with Don Galo. It is a major bus terminal with local, intercity and provincial connections. The barangay is also served by the
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through jeepney connections from the
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located just from the barangay . When the Line 1 extension to
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is completed, it will have its own station on the Manila International Airport Road (NAIA Road) at its junction with Roxas Boulevard.


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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tambo, Parañaque Barangays of Metro Manila Parañaque