Taguig
Taguig City, Tagalog: Lungsod ng Taguig, is a Filipino Component City in the capital region Metro Manila. According to the census of 2010 had 644 473 inhabitants Taguig City, living in 28 barangays. It is classified as a church of the first income class in the Philippines and as a highly urbanized.
Geography
The city is located on the northwest shore of the largest inland lake in the Philippines, the Laguna de Bay, in the southeast of the central Luzon plain. Taguig City `s borders the following municipalities Makati City, Cainta and Taytay, Pateros, and Pasig City to the north, Pasay City to the west, Parañaque City to the southwest and Muntinlupa City in the south. The topography of the city is characterized by plains and the mountainous foothills of the Sierra Madre in the Northeast. The flat land is crossed by some partially navigable channels.
History
The area of Taguig City was an important settlement area of the Tagalog long before the Spanish colonization. The soils are fertile and the river Napindan flows through the area, a tributary of the Pasig River. Before the arrival of Spaniards under Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, the area was under the rule of the Rajah Sulayman. It lived about 800 families in the area of today's big cities where they lived from agriculture and fishing. There were also trade links with Chinese merchants. There were Chinese trade goods are recovered during archaeological excavations, they date from the time of the Ming Dynasty.
After the battle of Bangkusay, on 3 June 1571 the area was the Spanish colonial empire and was incorporated under the administration of the encomienda del Tondo. On April 25, 1587 commune became an independent administrative unit in the form of Barrios in the administrative territory of the Archdiocese of Manila. Taguig was born on March 29, 1900 an independent municipality of Taguig and was awarded the status of a Component City on 8 December 2004.
Barangays
- Bagumbayan
- Bambang
- Calzada
- Central Bicutan
- Central signal Village2
- Fort Bonifacio
- Hagonoy
- Ibayo - Tipas
- Katuparan
- Ligid - Tipas
- Lower Bicutan
- Maharlika Village
- Napindan
- New Lower Bicutan
- North Daan Hari
- North Signal Village
- Palingon
- Pinagsama
- San Miguel
- Santa Ana
- South Daan Hari
- South Signal Village
- TanyaG1
- Tuktukan
- Upper Bicutan
- Ususan
- Wawa
- Western Bicutan
Universities
Gallery
Breakpoint of the Philippine National Railways in Taguig
Fort bonofacio
Houses in Taguig