Caloocan City (in Filipino Kalookan) is one of the cities and municipalities that comprise Metro Manila in the Philippines. Located just north and adjacent to Manila, Caloocan is the third largest city in the country with a population of approximately 1,200,000. Manila, Philippines Metro Manila (Kalakhang Maynila in Filipino), also simply called Manila outside the metropolis, is the metropolitan area that contains the City of Manila, the capital of the Philippines. ... Manila (Maynila in Filipino) is the capital city of the Philippines. ...

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

City of Caloocan

Region: National Capital Region (NCR)

Founded:

Population:

2000 census—1,177,604
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Density—22,081 per km²

Area: 53.33 km²

Barangays:

Congressional districts: 1st and 2nd Districts of Caloocan City

Mayor: Enrico "Recom" Echiverri

Class: 1st class; urban

Geographically, the city is divided into two separate areas. Southern Caloocan City lies directly north of Manila and is bounded by Malabon City and Valenzuela City to the north, Navotas to the west, and Quezon City to the east. Northern Caloocan City is the northermost territory of Metro Manila and lies to the east of Valenzuela, north of Quezon City, and south of San Jose del Monte City in the province of Bulacan. A barangay is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is very similar to a village. ... The House of Representatives (Kapulungan ng mga Kinatawan in Filipino) is the lower chamber of the Congress of the Philippines. ... Malabon City is one of the cities and municipalities that comprise Metro Manila in the Philippines. ... Valenzuela City is one of the cities and municipalities that comprise Metro Manila in the Philippines. ... Navotas is a municipality in Metro Manila in the Philippines. ... Quezon City P is the former capital and the most populous city in the Philippines. ... San Jose del Monte (or San Jose for short) is a chartered city in Philippines, located in the province of Bulacan. ... Bulacan is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region. ...

The city's most celebrated landmark is the monument of Philippine revolutionary Andres Bonifacio at the end of Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA), thus taking the name of the place Monumento. The monument of the proletarian hero of the Philippine Revolution was created by the nationalist sculptor Guillermo Tolentino to mark the first encounter between Bonifacio's Katipunan group against Spanish soldiers on Aug. 3, 1896. It was erected in 1933. Recently, the present administration had made renovations on the environs of the monument, including the Bonifacio Circle where the actual monument was put up and the Caloocan stretch of EDSA that is 100 meters away from the monument.