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Pasig, officially the City of Pasig,

(Tagalog: Lungsod ng Pasig), or simply
known as Pasig City, is a 1st class highly
urbanized city in Metro Manila,
Philippines.[4][5] According to the 2015
census, it has a population of 755,300
people.[3]
 Pasig
Highly Urbanized City

City of Pasig

View of the Ortigas Center

Seal

Anthem: Martsa ng Pasig

 Map of Metro Manila with Pasig highlighted

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Pasig

Location within
the Philippines

Coordinates: 14°34′30″N 121°05′00″E

Country  Philippines

Region National Capital

Region (NCR)

Province none (Former part of Rizal

province until 1975. But
 still recognized as de jure
capital of Rizal until now)

District Lone district

Founded 1573

Cityhood and HUC January 21, 1995

Barangays 30 (see Barangays)

Government [1]

 • Type Sangguniang
Panlungsod

 • Mayor Victor Ma. Regis N.

Sotto

 • Vice Mayor Iyo Christian C.

Bernardo

 • Congressman Roman T. Romulo

 • Councilors List

 • Electorate 390,923 voters (2016)

Native languages Tagalog
Website www.pasigcity.gov.ph

Located along the eastern border of

Metro Manila, Pasig is bordered on the
west by Quezon City and Mandaluyong;
to the north by Marikina; to the south by
Makati, the municipality of Pateros, and
Taguig; and to the east by the
municipalities of Cainta and Taytay in the
province of Rizal.

The city shares its name with the Pasig

River which runs through it and forms its
southwestern and southeastern borders
with Makati and Taguig respectively,
while the Marikina River forms its
western border with Quezon City. The
artificial Manggahan Floodway, built in
1986, begins at its confluence with the
Marikina River in its northeast.

A formerly rural settlement, Pasig is

primarily residential and industrial, but
has been becoming increasingly
commercial in recent years, particularly
after the construction of the Ortigas
Center business district in its west. The
city is home to the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Pasig, based in Pasig
Cathedral, a landmark built around the
same time as the town's foundation in
1573.
Pasig was formerly part of Rizal province
before the formation of Metro Manila, the
National Capital Region of the country.[6]
The seat of government of Rizal was
hosted in Pasig at the old Rizal Provincial
Capitol until a new capitol was opened in
Antipolo, within Rizal's jurisdiction in
2009.[7] However it remains the de jure, or
official capital of the province.[6]

Etymology
The city's name Pasig was believed to
have come from the old Sanskrit word
"pasega", meaning "sand" (similar to
Malay pasir), which refers to the tribal
community beside the sandy edges of
the river.[8] Some historians believed that
El Pasig came from "Legazpi" (Miguel
Lopez de Legazpi, the Basque explorer
well known for being involved in the
"Sanduguan", and was the first Governor-
General of the Spanish East Indies.

It was pronounced "mapaksik" by the Pre-

Hispanic Chinese inhabitants of Binondo,
Manila ("Mabagsik" is Tagalog for
"terrifying" – depicting the river's raging
current during the typhoon season,
causing massive floods on nearby towns
and villages, destroying wide hectares of
farmland, and even bringing huge
amounts of logs and water lilies from
Marikina River, Laguna de Bay, and San
Juan River towards Colonial Manila).
"Mapaksik" later became "Pah-sik", and
was then changed to what is now
"Pasig". It may have also come from the
Tagalog word "dalampasigan", which
means "riverbank".

According to Jose Villa Panganiban, the

former director of the Institute of
National Language, "Pasig" is another
ancient Sanskrit word meaning "a
waterway coming from one body of
water to another," which briefly describes
the river because its flow starts from
Laguna de Bay, leading to Manila Bay.

Climate
The dry season runs through the months
of November to April, while the wet
season starts in May and lasts to
November. The wet season reaches its
peak in the month of August. Maximum
rainfall in Muntinlupa usually occurs from
the month of June to September. The
average annual of rainfall is 2,014.8
millimeters with a peak of 420.0
millimeters in July and a low 26.9
millimeters in April. The highest
temperature occurs during the month of
April and May (34 degrees Celsius) while
the lowest occurs during the months of
January & February (24 degrees Celsius).
The Philippines, due to its geographical
location, is one of the Asian countries
often affected by typhoons. It is located
within the so-called “typhoon belt”.
Generally, typhoon season starts from
June and ends in November. However,
the rest of the months are not entirely
free of the typhoons since they are
unpredictable in nature and might enter
the country anytime of the year.

History

Old center of Pasig at the Pasig City Museum and

near the Immaculate Conception Cathedral
near the Immaculate Conception Cathedral

Early history

There are no surviving firsthand accounts

of the history of Pasig before Spanish
colonizers arrived in 1573 and
established the settlement which they
called the Ciudad-Municipal de Pasig.[9]

However, surviving genealogical records

and folk histories speak of a thriving
indigenous community (Barangay) on the
banks of the Bitukang Manok river (now
nearly extinct, and known as Parian
Creek), which eventually became
modern-day Pasig. The greatest rulers of
this pre-colonial polity are named Rajah
Lontok and Dayang Kalangitan by the
legends, which also say that they are
closely related to the pre-colonial rulers
of Tondo and Maynila.[10]

The creek was given the name "Bitukang

Manok" (Tagalog for "Chicken Gut"), due
to the serpentine shape of its waterway.
Among its early dwellers were Ethnic
Malays, the Chinese from Southern China
(with their origins dating back from the
Ming Dynasty), and the Indigenous
Tinguian nomads who migrated from the
deep jungles of the Sierra Madre
Mountain Range. The Bitukang Manok
was once a principal tributary of the
Marikina River. The Spanish colonizers
called the creek "Rio de Pasig"; however,
the natives still referred to it as the
Bitukang Manok.

The first stretch of the Bitukang Manok

became known as the "Pariancillo"
(Estero de San Agustin), where its
shoreline was once settled by Chinese
and Malay merchants to trade their
goods with the natives, until it developed
up to the 1970s as the city's main public
market. Likewise, the creek contributed
enormously to the economic growth of
Pasig during the Spanish Colonial Era,
through irrigation of its wide paddy fields,
and by being the progressive center of
barter trade.
The Bitukang Manok, also known as the
"Parian Creek", had once linked the
Marikina River with the "Antipolo River".
Before the Manggahan Floodway was
built in 1986, The Parian Creek was
actually connected to the Sapang Bato-
Buli Creek (which serves as the boundary
between Pasig's barangays Dela Paz-
Manggahan-Rosario-Sta. Lucia and the
Municipality of Cainta), the Kasibulan
Creek (situated at Vista Verde, Brgy. San
Isidro, Cainta), the Palanas Creek (leaving
Antipolo through Brgy. Muntindilao), the
Bulaw Creek (on Brgy. Mambungan,
besides the Valley Golf and Country
Club), and the Hinulugang Taktak Falls of
Brgy. Dela Paz (fed by the Taktak Creek
passing close to the Antipolo Town
Square), thus being the detached and
long-abandoned Antipolo River.

Colonial period

Bahay na Tisa (Tech House), the oldest existing

bahay na bato in Pasig, was built in the 1850s.

Since the early 1600s up to the period of

Japanese Imperialism, over a thousand
Catholic devotees coming from
"Maynilad" (Manila), "Hacienda Pineda"
(Pasay), "San Juan del Monte", "Hacienda
de Mandaloyon" (Mandaluyong),
"Hacienda Mariquina" (Marikina), "Barrio
Pateros", "Pueblo de Tagig" (Taguig), and
"San Pedro de Macati" (Makati), followed
the trail of the Parian Creek to the
Pilgrimage Cathedral on the
mountainous pueblo of Antipolo, Morong
(the present-day Rizal Province).

The Antipoleños and several locals from

the far-reached barrios of "Poblacion de
San Mateo", "Montalban" (Rodriguez),
"Monte de Tanhai" (Tanay), "Santa Rosa-
Oroquieta" (Teresa), and "Punta Ibayo"
(Baras), had also navigated this
freshwater creek once to go down to the
vast "Kapatagan" (Rice plains) of lowland
Pasig. Even the marian processions of
the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage
passed this route back and forth eleven
times.

The creek has been also used during the

British Occupation of Manila in 1762 to
1764 by the Royal British army, under the
leadership of General William Draper and
Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Cornish, 1st
Baronet, to transport their red troops
(and also the Sepoys they've brought
from East India) upstream to take over
the nearby forest-surrounded villages of
Cainta and Taytay. They even did an
ambush at the "Plaza Central" in front of
the Pasig Cathedral, and turned the
Roman Catholic Parish into their military
headquarters, with the church's fortress-
like "Campanilla" (belfry) serving as a
watchtower against Spanish defenders
sailing from the walled city of Intramuros
via the Pasig River.

The Sepoys backstabbed their abusive

British lieutenants and sided with the
combined forces of the Spanish
Conquistadors (assigned by the
Governor-General Simon de Anda y
Salazar), local rice farmers, fisherfolk,
and even Chinese traders. After the
British Invasion, the Sepoys remained
and intermarried with Filipina women,
and that explains the Hindu features of
some of today's citizens of Pasig,
especially Cainta and Taytay.

In 1742, an Augustinian friar named Fray

Domingo Diaz, together with a group of
wealthy "Mestizos de Sangley" (Chinese
Mestizos) from Sagad, ordered a
construction of a marble, roof-tiled cover
bridge across the creek in the style of an
oriental pagoda. It was named "Puente
del Pariancillo", and a few years later, it
changed to "Puente de Fray Felix Trillo",
dedicated to the dynamic parochial
curate of the Immaculate Conception
Parish. Edmund Roberts visited Pasig in
1832.[11]
Remains of the American-era capitol building, when
Pasig was the capital of Rizal province

On the night of May 2, 1896, more than

300 revolutionary Katipuneros, led by the
Supremo Gat. Andres Bonifacio, Emilio
Jacinto and Pio Valenzuela, secretly
gained access in this very creek aboard a
fleet of seventeen "Bangkas" (canoes) to
the old residence of a notable Valentin
Cruz at Brgy. San Nicolas, and formed
the "Asamblea Magna" (mass meeting).
Three months later on Saturday evening,
29 August, about less than 2,000
working-class Pasigueños (along with a
hundred Chinese "Trabajadores"
(laborers) from the failed Sangley revolts
of 1639 and throughout the 17th
century), armed with coconuts, machetes
and bayoneted muskets (some were
donated by the rich Ilustrado families,
while many of those guns were looted
from Spanish authorities), joined the
Katipunan and made a surprise attack at
the "Municipio del Gobernadorcillo" (the
current site of the Pasig City Hall) and its
adjacent garrison of the "Guardias Civil"
(Civil Guard), situated near the border of
barangays Maybunga and Caniogan.
Guanio residence, the site of the "Nagsabado sa
Pasig"

That was the first and victorious rebellion

ever accomplished by the Katipunan, and
that particular event was popularly
known as the "Nagsabado sa Pasig" (the
Saturday Uprising on Pasig). After they
had managed to successfully out-thrown
the seat of Spanish government on
Pasig, the Katipuneros fled immediately
and advanced towards a "Sitio" located
at the neighboring "Ciudad de San Juan"
called "Pinaglabanan", and there they
launched their second attempt to end the
numerous cases of corruption made by
the greedy Castilian "Encomenderos"
(town officials) and "Hacienderos"
(landlords), which shall be
commemorated as the Battle of San
Juan del Monte.

On June 11, 1901, during the Philippine-

American War, the province of Rizal was
created through Act No. 137 of the
Philippine Commission. Pasig was
incorporated into the province of Rizal,
and was designated as the capital of the
new province. In 1975, Pasig was carved
out of Rizal province and became part of
Metro Manila when the Metro Manila
Commission (precursor of Metro Manila
Authority and later Metropolitan Manila
Development Authority) was created by
Pres. Ferdinand Marcos through
Presidential Decree 824.

After World War II

A section of the Bitukang Manok

Tanghalang Pasigueño and an observation tower at
the Pasig City Hall compound

After World War II, the Bitukang Manok

was slowly exposing its ecological
downfall. It resulted in water pollution
due to rational ignorance. The worst
came to the Bitukang Manok in the late
1960s when the disappearing waterway,
instead of being revived was totally
separated from the Marikina River, and
was converted into an open sewage
ditch, with its original flow now moving in
reverse towards the direction of the
Napindan Channel (a portion of the Pasig
River bordering between the barangays
Kalawaan-Pinagbuhatan and Taguig), to
give way to public commercial facilities.

In July 1994, Pasig was converted into a

highly urbanized city through Republic
Act 7829. And in December 1994,
President Fidel V. Ramos signed it into
law, which was ratified through a
plebiscite on January 21, 1995.

On February 4, 2006, the ULTRA

Stampede, in which 71 people died,
happened during the first anniversary
celebration of ABS-CBN's noontime show
Wowowee, because of the prizes that
were to be given away. The anniversary
of the show would be held on PhilSports
Arena but the event has been already
canceled due to the tragedy.

Pasig was one of the areas struck by the

high flood created by Typhoon Ondoy on
September 26, 2009, which affected the
Ortigas Avenue and the east city side of
the Manggahan Floodway. It is the most
destructive flood in Philippine history.
Pasig is accessed by the Pasig River,
wherein the waters of Marikina River
channeled and the Manggahan Floodway
routed to Laguna de Bay.

In the first week of August 2012, intense

monsoon rain caused the 2012
Philippines flooding, which affected
again Pasig and particularly the National
Capital Region (NCR), CALABARZON and
the southwest part of Luzon. The
nonstop eight-day monsoon rain,
strengthened by Typhoon Gener, caused
the Marikina River to overflow and
destroyed the same places that were
ruined by Typhoon Ondoy in 2009.

Local government
Pasig is governed primarily by the city
mayor, the vice mayor and the city
councilors. The mayor acts as the chief
executive of the city while the city
councilors act as its legislative body. The
vice mayor, besides taking on mayoral
responsibilities in case of a temporary
vacancy, acts as the presiding officer of
the city legislature.[12]

City seal

The woman represents the Mutya ng

Pasig. Pasig is derived from a Hindu
word meaning a body of water
connecting two bodies of water. On the
lower left portion is the Pasig
Cathedral, the seat of the Roman
 Catholic Diocese of Pasig. The factory
in lower right portion represents the
prosperity and progress of the city.

List of mayors

Aldrin Gersalia (1780s)

(Gobernadorcillo)
Resurrecion Balmaceda (1850)
Don Rafael Umali (1852–1853, 1869–
1870)
Don Apolonio Santiago (1873–1884)
Don Liberato Damian y Umali (1894)
Hen. Valentin Cruz (1896)
Don Pantalen Catanto (1897)
Don Valentin Ruiz (1898)
Felipe Benicio Gomez (1902–1904)
Julio Raymundo (1904–1906)
Jose Feliciano (1906–1909)
Lupo Miguel (1909–1912)
Francisco Reyes (1912–1915)
Alejandro Ramos y Agullon (1915–
1918)
Don Fortunato Concepcion (1918–
1921)
Don/Dr. Sixto J. Antonio (1924–1935)
Cipriano A. Raymundo (1936–1945)
Francisco B. Legaspi (1945–1951)
Cipriano A. Raymundo (1952–1955)
Emiliano R. Caruncho, Jr. (1956–1986)
Mario Raymundo (1986–1992)
Vicente Paulino Eusebio (July 1, 1992
– June 30, 2001, July 1, 2004 – June
30, 2007)
Soledad Cruz Eusebio (July 1, 2001 –
June 30, 2004)
Robert Cruz Eusebio (July 1, 2007 –
June 30, 2013; July 1, 2016 – June 30,
 2019)
Maribel G. Andaya-Eusebio (July 1,
2013 – June 30, 2016)
Victor Ma. Regis Nubla Sotto (June 30,
2019– present )

List of vice mayors

Emiliano Santos (1956–1972)

no vice mayor during martial law
Vicente P. Eusebio (1980–1986)
Boy Reyes (1986–1988) appointed
vice mayor during revolutionary
government
Miguel "Mike" Cayton (1988–1992)
Francisco S. De Guzman (1992–1995)
Lorna Bernardo (1995–2004)
 Rosalio D. Martires (2004–2013)
Christian "Iyo" Caruncho Bernardo
(2013–present)

Barangays

Political map of Pasig

Pasig is politically subdivided into 30

barangays.[13] Its barangays are grouped
into two districts for city council
representation purposes.[14] The first
district encompasses the southern and
western sections of the city, while the
second district encompasses the
northern and eastern sections. Among
these barangays, 27 are located on the
northern side or right bank of the Pasig
River while 3 (Buting, San Joaquin and
Kalawaan) are located on the river's
southern side or left bank.
 Barangays District Population Area (ha) Density (/km2)

Bagong Ilog 1st 15,454 124.95 124

Bagong Katipunan 1st 1,185 4.78 248

Bambang 1st 19,258 38.41 501

Buting 1st 9,073 20.33 446

Caniogan 1st 21,769 167.94 130

Dela Paza 2nd 13,047 199.79 65

Kalawaan 1st 23,442 209.91 112

Kapasigan 1st 6,569 21.15 311

Kapitolyo 1st 20,451 95.24 215

Malinao 1st 5,957 28.02 213

Manggahanb 2nd 74,244 327.03 227

Maybunga 2nd 35,627 177.37 201

Oranbo 1st 4,395 43.61 101

Palatiw 1st 16,929 24.24 698

Pinagbuhatan 2nd 105,435 152.35 692

Pineda 1st 15,013 79.85 188

Rosario 2nd 50,690 414.54 122

Sagád 1st 6,887 12.00 574

San Antonio 1st 11,666 82.07 142

San Joaquín 1st 12,498 45.07 277

San José 1st 2,347 9.33 252

San Miguel 2nd 30,069 80.05 376

San Nicolas 1st 1,542 30.38 51

Santa Cruz 1st 4,367 7.28 600

Santa Lucia 2nd 40,553 178.31 227

Santa Rosa 1st 1,515 12.06 126

Santo Tomás 1st 6,375 10.43 611

Santolan 2nd 43,286 199.25 217

Sumilang 1st 5,392 17.18 314

Ugong 1st 22,266 375.38 59

 Notes
^a Excludes 7,296 persons residing in the area disputed by Barangay San Isidro, Cainta, Rizal.
^b Includes population separately enumerated in the 2007 Census as Barangay Napico. Its creation
was annulled by the Supreme Court on September 10, 1999.[15] Excludes 3,784 persons in the area
disputed by Barangay San Isidro, Cainta, Rizal.

Demographics
 Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1903 11,278 —    
1918 16,767 +2.68%
1939 27,541 +2.39%
1948 35,407 +2.83%
1960 62,130 +4.80%
1970 156,492 +9.67%
1975 209,915 +6.07%
1980 268,570 +5.05%
1990 397,679 +4.00%
1995 471,075 +3.22%
2000 505,058 +1.50%
2007 617,301 +2.81%
2010 669,773 +3.01%
2015 755,300 +2.31%
Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[3][16][17][18]
Population growth of Pasig has
consistently been higher than the
regional average. Thus, the percentage
share of Pasig in the total population of
Metro Manila has significantly increased.
Its share has grown from less than 3% in
1960 to 4.5% in 1980 and then to almost
6% in 2015. Pasig's population is
projected to reach one million[19]
between the 2025 and 2030 census
years.

Religion

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasig

was established in 2003 by Pope John
Paul II as the diocese of the Catholic
Church in the Philippines, with the
Immaculate Conception Parish (Pasig
Cathedral) as the seat.

Pasig is the headquarters of the

Presbyterian Church of the
Philippines.[20]

Economy

Pasig City public market

Pasig Revolving Tower

19th century

Historically, Pasig produced rice, fruit and

sugarcane.[11]

Today

Ortigas Center
Public housing in Pasig City

The western part of the city is where

most of Pasig's financial resources are
primarily concentrated. It includes
numerous factories, warehouses,
establishments and commercial
facilities. Primarily they situated in the
Ortigas Center, Pasig proper and along E.
Rodriguez Jr. Avenue (C-5) and Ortigas
Avenue. Real estate and commercial
developments along Mercedes Avenue
and other areas near the city center are
developing. The eastern part was mostly
dominated with residential areas but
numerous commercial establishment are
now developing along Marcos Highway.
Per capita income (GDP) of Pasig is
$12,032 per year. The barangay of San
Antonio has the largest income in Pasig,
second only to San Lorenzo of Makati as
the largest single income-generated
government unit in the Philippines. In the
arguably more significant western part of
Pasig, east of the city of Mandaluyong
and as part of the barangay of San
Antonio, lies the Ortigas Center.
The Ortigas Center is one of the top
business districts in the country,
numerous high-rise office buildings,
residential condominiums, commercial
establishments, schools and malls are
situated here. The University of Asia and
the Pacific is located here. The head
office of the Integrated Bar of the
Philippines was also established here.
The headquarters of the Philippine Stock
Exchange, which is also home to one of
trading floors of the country, is located
along ADB Avenue. The headquarters of
San Miguel Corporation, owner of one of
the largest producer of beer in Asia, is
located along San Miguel Avenue.
Situated along Ortigas Avenue lies the
Crowne Plaza, a five-star hotel near
Robinsons Galleria.

Notable along Ortigas Avenue and E.

Rodriguez Jr. Avenue (C-5) lies Frontera
Verde, a newly privately owned
development area which includes
restaurants, pet shops, mall, park, village,
office buildings and a small zoo. The
shopping complex Tiendesitas was
located here, a one spot hub that can
rival the world-renowned Chatuchak
market of Bangkok, Thailand. El-Pueblo, a
colonial-themed commercial complex in
Ortigas Center, provides new concept of
cafes, restaurants and bars. Metrowalk
(formerly Payanig), a commercial hub
along Ortigas Avenue and Meralco
Avenue, was established in 2005 near
Ortigas Center which comprises shops,
depot warehouses, stalls, restaurants
and bars.

Education
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Along C. Raymundo Avenue lies the

national headquarters of Parents for
Education Foundation, Inc. which runs
schools such as PAREF Southridge
School, PAREF Woodrose School, PAREF
Northfield School, PAREF Rosehill School,
and seven other schools.
At the heart of city proper, lies Colegio
del Buen Consejo (CBC). It is one of the
oldest school in Pasig and one of the
educational institutions promulgated by
the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasig.

Secondary Schools

Rizal High School

Pasig Catholic College (PCC) is a private

sectarian college located at the heart of
Pasig. Established in 1913 as a small
school managed by the CICM Fathers
headed by Fr. Pierre Cornelis De Brouwer
at the present Immaculate Conception
Cathedral of Pasig, it is considered as the
city's center of Catholic educational
institution of the Roman Catholic
Diocese of Pasig.

Pasig City Science High School (PCSHS)

is the second science high school in
Pasig recognized by the Department of
Education for bright students of the city.
It is located near Rainforest, a fully
restored public resort and amusement
park.

Rizal High School (RHS) is located in

Pasig. Named after the Philippine
national hero José Rizal, it is one of the
world's largest secondary education by
student population. Formerly hailed in
the Guinness World Records as the
largest school by overall enrolled
students, it is now surpassed by the City
Mississippi School (CMS) in Lucknow,
India.[21]

Tertiary Schools

Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasig, a

local university in Kapasigan, offers
degree courses for poor, bright and
deserving residents of Pasig. It is
established under the mayoralty of
Vicente C. Eusebio in 1999.
St. Paul College Pasig was near the
Philippine Institute of Sports Complex
(ULTRA). It was established in 1970 as
one of the educational institutions
administered by the Congregation of the
Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres.

University of Asia and the Pacific (UA&P)

in Ortigas Center traces back to the
Center for Research and Communication
(CRC) which started by two Harvard
graduates in 1967 as an economic and
social think-tank institution. Its spiritual
and doctrinal formation is entrusted to
Opus Dei.

Technical and vocational

training

MFI Foundation Inc. (formerly Meralco

Foundation Institute) was located near
the Ortigas Center along Ortigas Avenue.
It is established in 1983 to serve and
meet the industry's demand for middle-
level technical manpower. As a partner of
Philippine government's institution of the
Technical Education and Skills
Development Authority (Philippines) or
TESDA, it provided two main programs in
the Industrial Technician Program (ITP)
which targets the youth and the
Technical Training and MFI Training
(formerly Testing Program) for skilled
workers and professionals.
International Schools

Domuschola International School (DIS) is

located in Barangay Ugong and offers the
International Baccalaureate PYP program
for elementary students. Established in
2000 as a pre-school under the name
Second Mom, it has expanded to primary
and secondary education. The school is
in partnership with the TAO Corporation
and as of 2015, became a candidate
school of the IB Diploma Program.

Saint Gabriel International School in

Sandoval Avenue is the sister school of
the Chinese-based Manila Xiamen
International School. It provides
Mandarin Chinese classes and ESL
education for local and foreign students.

Sports
PhilSports Complex or the Philippine
Institute of Sports Complex (formerly
ULTRA) is a notable national sports
complex of the Philippines. Located in
Meralco Avenue, it is where the offices of
the Philippine Sports Commission,
Philippine Olympic Committee and some
national sports associations are.

Pasig will host some matches at the

2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup at the
PhilSports Arena.
Transportation
Road network

Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue is a major north–south

road in Pasig.

Pasig is accessed by the following major

roads:

Ortigas Avenue
E. Rodriguez Avenue, Jr. (C-5)
Pasig Boulevard
Julia Vargas Avenue
 Shaw Boulevard
Meralco Avenue
Pioneer Street
Marcos Highway
Amang Rodriguez Avenue

Water transportation

Pasig is the location of the east end of

Pasig River. It is accessed by Pasig River
Ferry Service with 7 stations named after
the Barangays of the city beside the river,
these are the following:

Pineda
San Joaquin
Bambang
 Kalawaan
Pinagbuhatan
Maybunga
Nagpayong

Bridges

Pasig is accessed by Pasig River and

Marikina River. The city has only eleven
bridges:

C-5 Bridge – spans Pasig River

Kaginhawaan Bridge – spans Marikina
River
Manalo Bridge – spans Marikina River
Rosario Bridge – spans Marikina River
Sandoval Bridge – spans Marikina
River
Santa Rosa De Lima Bridge – spans
Marikina River
Julia Vargas Bridge (parallel bridges) –
spans Marikina River
Bambang Bridge – spans Napindan
Channel
Napindan Bridge – spans Napindan
Channel
Kalawaan Bridge – spans Pasig River
Ortigas Bridge – spans Manggahan
Floodway
Manggahan Bridge (Daan Pasig
Bridge) – spans Manggahan Floodway
 F B Legaspi Bridge – spans
Manggahan Floodway
Kaunlaran Bridge – spans Pasig River

Railway

This city is also served by Santolan

Station of Line 2 along Marcos Highway
located in Pasig-Marikina Boundary
where the depot is also located.

Long before the Manila Light Rail Transit

System finally opened its services in
Santolan in the Pasig-Marikina border in
the early 2000s, Steam train services had
once served those places in the past,
even before World War II.
In Marikina, there is a street named
"Daangbakal", also called by the names
of "Shoe Avenue Extension", "Munding
Avenue" and "Bagong Silang". There is
also a similar "Daangbakal" in the San
Mateo-Montalban (Rodriguez) area, and
on the maps one can notice that the two
roads should have been connected with
each other. In fact, as the name suggests
in Tagalog, these streets were once a
single railway line. The two sides of the
"Daangbakal" roads were once
connected by a bridge in the San Mateo-
Marikina border. However, as the railroad
tracks have been largely ignored after the
Japanese cccupation and was
transformed into separate highways, the
railway connection was abandoned.

The old railroad tracks, called the

Marikina Line, was connected from
Tutuban station in Manila, passing
through Tramo (Brgy. Rosario, Pasig)
coming all the way to the town of
Marikina up to Montalban. On the
northern end of the "Daangbakal" road in
Montablan is a basketball court. That
basketball court which stands today,
surrounded by the Montalban Catholic
Church and Cemetery, was once the
railway station terminus of that particular
line.
The present-day Santo Niño Elementary
School in Marikina was said to be a train
depot. And also it was said that a railroad
station once stood in the Marikina City
Sports Park.

The Marikina Line was completed in

1906, and continued its operation until
1936. It was said that the Imperial
Japanese Army made use of this railway
line during the Second World War. These
railways were dismantled during the
1960s and were converted into ordinary
roads.

Today, the citizens are dependent on

Tricycles, Jeepneys, Taxis, FX, Buses, and
AUV's which contribute to the everyday
unusual and unbearable traffic of
Metropolitan Manila. Even now, there is
uncertainty in the Northrail project, which
links Manila to the northern provinces of
Luzon, because of corruption within the
project's construction.

Aside from the Marikina Line, two other

railways have existed before but are now
removed permanently.

First is the Cavite Line, which passed

through Paco, Parañaque, Bacoor and up
to Naic, Cavite. Completed in 1908, its
operation continued until 1936.

Second is the Antipolo Line, which

passed through Santa Mesa,
Mandaluyong, Pasig, Cainta, Taytay, up to
Antipolo near the "Hinulugang Taktak"
Falls. There is also a street named
"Daangbakal" in Antipolo, where like the
"Daangbakal" roads on Marikina and San
Mateo, a railway line once existed. The
railroad tracks also passed through what
is now the Ortigas Avenue Extension. Its
operation ceased in 1917.

Notable people
Atoy Co, actor and former basketball
player
Marlou Aquino, former basketball
player
Hero Angeles, actor of ABS-CBN
Edgar Allan Guzman, actor
Doug Kramer, basketball player
Rome dela Rosa, basketball player for
Magnolia Hotshots.
Rachelle Ann Go, singer and model
John Lloyd Cruz, actor in ABS-CBN
Sam Milby, actor, singer, model in ABS-
CBN
Kean Cipriano, singer, actor and
musician
RJ Jimenez, acoustic singer, Pinoy
Dream Academy scholar
Jerome Ponce, actor in Be Careful with
my Heart
Xian Lim, Chinito actor, model, singer
Rene Saguisag, Senator of the
Republic elected in 1988
Jovito Salonga, former Senate
President
Vic Sotto, artist, host and TV
Personality
Raymond "Abra" Abracosa, hip hop
artist, emcee, singer
Arjo Atayde, actor, Star Magic, ABS-
CBN
Aljo Bendijo, broadcast journalist, PTV
4
Dion Ignacio, actor, GMA Network
Ely Buendia, lead vocalist for The
Eraserheads
Sister cities
Local
Marikina, Metro Manila
International
Marugame, Kagawa, Japan[22]
South San Francisco, California,
United States[23][24]

See also
Legislative district of Pasig City
Roman Catholic Diocese of Pasig
Pasig City Museum
Candaba, Pampanga, a place where
there is a barangay named Pasig.
Balabac, Palawan, a place where there
is a barangay named Pasig.
 Lambunao, Iloilo, a place where there
is a barangay named Pasig.
Sara, Iloilo, a place where there is a
barangay named Pasig.
List of schools in Pasig

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