Muntinlupa

Muntinlupa ( officially: City of Muntinlupa; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Muntinlupa ) is a major city in the Philippines.

History

About the beginnings of settlement nothing more precise is known. The first written evidence stating the Muntinlupa already in 1601 under the administration of the Augustinian Order was. The Catholic priest Joaquin de Zuniga described the community in a chronicle of the 18th century as the church as La Poblacion que Sigue se llama Muntinlupa. The status as a municipality of Muntinlupa was awarded on 25 November 1903, Muntinlupa was on 16 February 1994, the status of a city awarded.

Origin of the name

About the origin of the name of the city, there are three versions, the first is built-in the nature of the surface of the soil, for which the term is used in Muntinlupa Tagalog, responsible. The second version refers to the beginnings of Spanish colonization: as the first Spaniards entered the ground they asked for the name of the settlement and got the "Monte sa Lupa " to answer, but this was the name of a card game that just played the locals. The third version relates to the topography of the inland of the settlement, which was described as Monte or mountain first and walked to the name Muntinlupa. It has not been established, due to which version of the name of the city.

Geography

Muntinlupa is the southernmost administrative unit in the capital region of Metro Manila and is located on the western shores of Laguna de Bay. Your neighboring municipalities are San Pedro, in the province of Laguna, in the south, Parañaque City and Taguig City on the north and Bacoor and Dasmariñas City, Cavite Province, in the west.

Barangays

The City of Muntinlupa is politically subdivided into 9 barangays.

District I

• Alabang Riles
• Ayala Alabang
• Puli
• Cupang
• Sucat

District II

• Bayanan
• Poblacion
• Putatan
• Tunasan