The ( in
Metro Manila in the
Philippines . This small town is famous for its duck-raising industry and especially for producing ''
Balut '', a Filipino delicacy that is boiled duck egg. Pateros is bordered by
Pasig City to the north,
Makati City to the west, and
Taguig to the south.
Pateros is the only municipality and the smallest, both in population and in land area, in Metro Manila, but it is the second most densely populated at around 27 thousand people per square kilometer after
Manila .
The name of the Pateros most likely came from its duck-raising industry. The
Tagalog word (of
Spanish origin) for duck is ''pato'' and ''pateros'' means duck-raisers. An equally viable theory, though less known is that the name also came from the town's small shoe-making industry. The Tagalog word for shoe is ''sapatos'' and shoe-makers are called ''sapateros''.
Before
1770 , Pateros was only a ''barrio'' of
Pasig until the Spanish Governor-General in the Philippines issued a decree making Pateros an independent municipality.
On
March 29 ,
1900 , Pateros became one of the towns in the newly created province of
Rizal , by virtue of General Order No. 40 Act No 137 of Philippine Commission promulgated o June 11, 1901. Then on
October 12 ,
1903 , Act No. 942 combined Pateros,
Taguig and
Muntinlupa into a single municipality under Pateros. The municipality was renamed into Taguig on
March 22 ,
1905 , through Act 1308. Executive Order No. 20 dated
February 29 ,
1908 separated Pateros from Taguig and Pateros then gained its independent status as municipality on
January 1 ,
1909 by Executive Order No. 36. On
November 7 ,
1975 , Pateros became a part of the new
Metropolitan Manila Area through Presidential Decree No. 924.
Pateros is politically subdivided into 10
Barangay s:
- Aguho
- Magtanggol
- Martires Del 96
- Poblacion
- San Pedro
- San Roque
- Santa Ana
- Santo Rosario-Kanluran
- Santo Rosario-Silangan
- Tabacalera
