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Makati Poblacion Park

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Poblacion Park features an amphitheater, children's playground, stone benches, gazeboes, multipurpose sheds and solar lamp posts. The adjacent Poblacion Covered Court is a basketball court that also serves as a venue for local gatherings. A 75-meter (246 ft) extension of the park eastwards to
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The Makati Poblacion Park is 2,876 square meters (30,960 sq ft) in size and stretches along the Pasig River from Zamora Street by the Poblacion Covered Court and ends up across from the Poblacion Fire Sub-Station. The roughly three-block riverside park bordered by
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stands about 300 meters (980 ft) to the south at the opposite end of D.M. Rivera Street (formerly Don Pedro P. Roxas Street) at another plaza known as Plaza Cristo Rey. The park is also near the
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was located in the then village of Buenavista that sat on an elevated plateau overlooking the Pasig River. It was accessible from the river via stone steps or
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of Villamediana, Don José Col, Don Manuel Gómez, and then to Don Simeón Bernardino Vélez. It was in 1851 when Don José Bonifacio Roxas purchased it for 50,000
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shutters built in 1918 at a plaza known as Plaza Trece de Agosto (now an extension of J.P. Rizal Avenue) served as Makati's
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Park. The park is the largest of three public parks in Makati's old downtown area situated at the site of a former
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to the south sits in the historic Heritage District of Makati located just across from the Museo ng Makati. This
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of San Pedro de Macati. Ownership of the estate was transferred several times after the Jesuits were
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until post-independence when the house was demolished and the site turned into an open space.
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and made it the commercial base of Casa Roxas, the precursor of Ayala y Compañía (now
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on more than 3 meters of existing easement along the Pasig River at a cost of
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The land for the park was acquired by the city of Makati after
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that served as an administrative building for the then vast
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managed their estate here from their headquarters at the
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Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area
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14°34′3″N 121°1′59″E / 14.56750°N 121.03306°E / 14.56750; 121.03306

Makati
Philippines
linear park
Pasig River
Metro Manila
Barangay
Poblacion
Makati
plantation house
Rockwell Center
J. P. Rizal Avenue
neo-classical
oyster shell window
San Pedro Macati Church
barangay hall
Rockwell Center
Mayor
Romulo Peña
Pasig River Rehabilitation Commission

World War II
Ayala y Compañía
bahay na bato
Jesuit
hacienda
expelled from the Philippines
Marquess
Spanish dollars

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