Caloocan City 43rd anniversay, Events and Celebrations: Options

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Caloocan City’s 43rd Anniversary

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Map Of Caloocan City

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Andres Bonifacio monument in Caloocan City


CALOOCAN used to be part of the township of Tondo. In 1815, it was converted into a separate municipality by the Spanish authorities who sought to effect greater control of the residents in the area. The territory of the new town extended from the original Aromahan in the west to the foothills of Marikina in the east and from the Tinajeros, Tanza, and Tala Rivers in the north to San Francisco del Monte, Sampalok, Santa Cruz, and Tondo in the south. But this extensive territory was largely uninhabited. The government building was set up on the relatively well-settled portion just above Libis Espina, with Mariano Sandoval as the first gobernadorcillo. The mailed-fist policy with which the gobernadorcillo sought to enforce obedience was resisted both actively and passively by the people. Many of the tenants abandoned their farms in the town proper and sought refuge in the wilderness of Balintawak and Pugad-Lawin, where they opened new homesteads.


As the years passed some of the deposed tenants engaged the guardia civil in running battles, harassing the authorities in town and running to the barrios where the farmers, like Tandang Sora of later years, gave them food and shelter. Meanwhile, a young man in Tondo, in between making fans to support his orphaned brothers and sisters, was reading the history of the French Revolution. Ideas of leading a proletarian movement to oust the colonial masters were beginning to take shape in his unschooled mind. He would organize the masses where the Spaniards could least detect the seething cauldron – in a town not only unfamiliar to the enemy but also filled with people who, for almost a century, had fought them and refused to be cowed by their guns. The young man, Andres Bonifacio, was laying plans for a revolution that was to explode in Caloocan.

After the revolution, Caloocan continued to play a prominent role in the Filipino nation’s life. As a center of industry and commerce, Caloocan gained prominence in the early 1960s, prompting Congress to pass Republic Act No. 3278 that converted the town into a city, which was signed into law on February 16, 1962, by then President Diosdado P. Macapagal. The conversion into a city finally broke the shackles that bound the old municipality to the provincial government of Rizal and was achieved through the wishes of the town’s residents, expressed in a plebiscite held in 1961, pursuant to the original charter.

We congratulate Caloocan City headed by Mayor Enrico R. Echiverri, other Officials, and residents on the occasion of their 43rd Anniversary of their cityhood

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we always pass that because we always travel south to Manila proper from Valenzuela through Sangan Daan.

but the Bonifacio monument is one monument I'll never forget.

The only thing I hate about it is it's like a traffic circle.