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Tondo is a district located in Manila, Philippines. It is the largest, in terms of area and population, of Manila's sixteen districts, [ 2 ] with a census-estimated 654,220 people in 2020. It consists of two congressional districts.
Numerous theories on the origin of the name "Tondo" have been put forward. Filipino National Artist Nick Joaquin suggested that it might be a reference to high ground ("tundok"). [ 34 ] The French linguist Jean-Paul Potet, however, has suggested that the river mangrove, Aegiceras corniculatum , which at the time was called "tundok" ("tinduk ...
Del Monte (from the mountain) was affixed to the name distinguish it from San Francisco de Manila, a Franciscan church in Intramuros, Manila. [17] Diliman: Quezon City: From dilim, a type of fern. [18] Divisoria: Manila Tondo and Binondo: Spanish for "dividing line" (línea divisoria) Don Bosco: Parañaque: Saint John Bosco. Don Galo: Parañaque
The earliest recorded History of Manila, the capital of the Philippines, dates back to the year 900 AD, as documented in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription.By the thirteenth century, the city consisted of a fortified settlement and trading quarter near the mouth of the Pasig River, which bisects the city into the north and south.
Numerous theories on the origin of the name "Binondo", and that of "Tondo", its neighboring district, have been put forward. Philippine National Artist Nick Joaquin suggested that the names might have been derived from the archaic spelling of the Tagalog term "binondoc" (modern orthography: binundók), or mountainous, referring to Binondo's originally hilly terrain.
Tondo, Manila, a district of Manila; Tondo (historical polity), an early historic polity on the north side of the Pasig River delta in Luzon, Philippines; a predecessor of the modern-day district Tondo Conspiracy, a plot against Spanish colonial rule by Tagalog and Kapampangan noblemen in 1587–1588; Isaac Tondo (born 1981), Liberian footballer
Tondo, Manila: Ramon Papa Manila City councilor (1912), Philippine Independence Mission delegate, doctor and soldier. Raon Street (Calle Raón) Quiapo, Manila: José Antonio Raón y Gutiérrez Spanish governor-general of the Philippines (1765–70). The street was renamed in the late 19th century to Centeno Street, after Manila civil governor ...
Over time, the Lakandula's name has come to be written in several ways. However, according to the firsthand account written in Spanish by Hernando Riquel, the royal notary who accompanied Miguel López de Legazpi, the Lord of Tondo specifically identified himself as "Sibunao Lacandola, lord of the town of Tondo" [1] when he boarded Legazpi's ship with the lords of Manila on May 18, 1571.