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Manila Bay (Filipino: Look ng Maynila; Spanish: Bahía de Manila) is a natural harbor that serves the Port of Manila (on Luzon), in the Philippines.Strategically located around the capital city of the Philippines, Manila Bay facilitated commerce and trade between the Philippines and its neighboring countries, [1] becoming the gateway for socio-economic development even prior to Spanish occupation.
The Portuguese first established a presence in Maritime Southeast Asia with their capture of Malacca in 1511, [60] and their contacts with the seafarers they described as Luções (lit. people from "lusong", the area now known as Manila Bay) [61] became the first European accounts of the Tagalog people, [62] as Anthony Reid recounts:
Dolomite Beach was created through the process of beach nourishment, which is a common practice in the creation of beaches around the world. [7] Upon the extraction of debris in the 500 meters (1,600 ft) portion of the baywalk from the Manila Yacht Club to the United States Embassy in Manila, the project proponents dumped two layers of ordinary sand before overlaying it with crushed dolomite.
The now-abandoned fort was named after Brigadier General Richard C. Drum, [2] who served with distinction during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and died on October 15, 1909, the year of the fort's construction. The island and the other former harbor defenses of Manila Bay fall under the jurisdiction of Cavite City. [3]
the original (pre-reclamation) shoreline of Manila Bay [18] to the west. Notably, the area of modern Tondo now known as "Gagalangin" is not believed to have been part of Tondo's original "territory", since it was a place grown wild with plants in olden days. [18]
The Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays ("Coast Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays" until 1925) (a.k.a. CD/HD Manila Bay) were a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps harbor defense command, part of the Philippine Department of the United States Army from circa 1910 through early World War II.
before the 11th century ... 1993 - the Easter Regatta, later called the President's Cup Regatta, was held for the first time in Manila Bay [46] 1994
The entrance to Manila Bay is 19 kilometers (12 mi) wide and expands to a width of 48 kilometers (30 mi). Mariveles , in the province of Bataan , is an anchorage just inside the northern entrance, and Sangley Point is the former location of Cavite Naval Base .