Pateros, Metro Manila
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The Municipality of Pateros (Filipino
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: Bayan ng Pateros) is a First-class municipality in Metro Manila
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, Philippines
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. This small town is famous for its duck-raising industry and especially for producing balut, a Filipino delicacy that is boiled duck egg. Pateros is bordered by Pasig City
Pasig City
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 to the north, Makati City
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 to the west, and Taguig City
Taguig City
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 to the south.

Pateros is the only municipality and the smallest, both in population and in land area, in Metro Manila, but it is the second most densely populated at around 27 thousand people per square kilometer after Manila
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.

History

Before 1770, Pateros was only a barrio of Pasig
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 until the Spanish Governor-General in the Philippines issued a decree making Pateros an independent municipality. On March 29, 1900, Pateros became one of the towns in the newly-created province of Rizal
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, by virtue of General Order No. 40, Act No. 137 of the Philippine Commission, which was promulgated on June 11, 1901. Then on October 12, 1903, Act No. 942 combined Pateros, Taguig
Taguig City
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 and Muntinlupa
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 into a single municipality under Pateros. The municipality was renamed Taguig on March 22, 1905, through Act No. 1308. Executive Order No. 20 dated February 29, 1908 separated Pateros from Taguig. Pateros then regained its independent status as a municipality on January 1, 1909 by Executive Order No. 36. On November 7, 1975, Pateros became a part of the new Metropolitan Manila Area
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 through Presidential Decree No. 824.

Etymology

The name Pateros most likely derived from the duck-raising industry. The Tagalog
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 word (of Spanish
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 origin) for "duck" is pato and pateros means "duck-raisers". Another theory, though less known, is that the name may allude to the town's small shoe-making industry. The Tagalog word for "shoe"—also of Spanish
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 origin—is sapatos and shoemakers are called sapateros.

Barangays

Pateros is politically subdivided into 10 barangay
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s:
  • Aguho
  • Magtanggol
  • Martires
  • Poblacion - this barangay serves as the town's commercial center
  • San Pedro
  • San Roque
  • Sta. Ana
  • Sto. Rosario - Kanluran
  • Sto. Rosario - Silangan
  • Tabacalera

Fort Bonifacio claim

The city government of Pateros claims that its original land area was not its present land area of 2.10 km² but 1,040 hectares (10.4 km²) including Fort Bonifacio, particularly Barangays Comembo, Pembo, East Rembo, West Rembo, Cembo, South Cembo and Pitogo which are now part of Makati City and Bonifacio Global City which was made part of Taguig, based on documents and official maps obtained by former Pateros Vice Mayor Dominador Rosales from 30 libraries and offices including USA Library of Congress and USA Archives. One of those maps was the 1968 Land Classification Map of the Bureau of Land.("Susi ng Pateros Newsletter", 2000),("Susi ng Pateros Newsletter", 2009)

Pateros’ decrease in territory was accounted to a cadastral mapping in Metro Manila conducted in 1978. The late Pateros Mayor Nestor Ponce challenged the map through an objection letter dated June 23, 1978 but on January 1986, former President Ferdinand Marcos issued Proclamation No. 2475 which stated that Fort Bonifacio is situated in Makati and it’s open for disposition. Because of that, a boundary dispute arose which moved Pateros to request a dialogue about that with then Municipal Council of Makati in 1990. Pateros
Pateros
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 also filed a complaint against Makati at the Makati RTC in 1996 but the trial court dismissed the case for lack of jurisdiction. The case was moved to the Court of Appeals in 2003 but the case was also denied. The same case was also moved to the Supreme Court in 2009 but it was denied again.("Susi ng Pateros Newsletter", 2009)

Supreme Court Decision

Almost 2 decades later, the Supreme Court on June 16, 2009 per Antonio Eduardo B. Nachura denied Pateros’ petition against Makati but ruled out that the boundary dispute should be settled amicably by their respective legislative bodies based on Section 118(d) of the Local Government Code. Pursuant to the decision, Pateros invited Makati to a council-to-council dialogue. This happened on October 8, 2009. Four meetings were held and at the fourth dialogue on November 23, 2009, a joint resolution was made stating that Pateros will invite the Local Government of Taguig into a council-to-council dialogue resulting to a tripartite conference between Pateros
Pateros
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, Taguig and Makati.

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