Dasmariñas (often shortened to Dasma) is a municipality in the province of Cavite, in the Philippines, and is a part of the CALABARZON region. Located approximately 30 kilometers south of Manila, it has a population of approximately 700,000. Dasmariñas is categorized as a First-Class municipality. A municipality (bayan in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Cavite is a province of the Philippines located on the southern shores of Manila Bay in the CALABARZON region in Luzon, just 30 kilometers south of Manila. ... CALABARZON is one of the regions of the Philippines. ... Manila (Maynila in Filipino) is the capital city of the Philippines. ...

Dasmariñas is considered the university town of Cavite. SM and Robinsons malls are also located in Dasmariñas. It is the only municipality in the Philippines that has both SM and Robinsons mall. Dasmariñas meets many of the criteria for becoming a city, but this has implications both for taxes and property values. Conversion to a city is not yet underway and has met some opposition, but is probably inevitable by 2015 (if not earlier).

The origin of the name "Dasmariñas" comes from "Perez Das Mariñas", a Spanish Governor ("Virrey") of Philippines from 1590 - 1593. After his death, his son Luis Pérez das Mariñas was the governor from 1593 - 1596. Perez Das Mariñas came from "As Negradas", Galiza, Spain. As Negradas is the name of two villages in the province of Lugo, Galiza, Spain. ... Galiza or Galicia (Galego-Português: Galiza, Spanish: Galicia) is an autonomous community in the northwest of Spain. ...

Dasmariñas literally means "from the marines" in the Galician language (NW of Iberian Peninsula). Galician (Galego) is a language variety of the Western Ibero-Romance branch, spoken in Galicia (in the Galician language, Galicia or Galiza), an autonomous community in northwestern Spain. ...