Valenzuela, Metro Manila
Template:Infobox Philippine city Valenzuela City is one of the cities and municipalities that comprise Metro Manila in the Philippines. The city has approximately 500,000 residents and is primarily an industrial and residential suburb of Manila. The North Luzon Expressway passes through the city and out of Metro Manila into the province of Bulacan.
Valenzuela City has a land area of approximately 45 square kilometers. It is bordered by Quezon City and northern Caloocan City to the east, by Malabon City and southern Caloocan City to the south, by Obando in Bulacan to the west, and Meycauayan, also in Bulacan, to the north.
Government
Like other cities in the Philippines, Valenzuela City is governed by a Mayor and Vice mayor elected for a three-year terms. The Mayor is the executive head and leads the city's departments in executing the city ordinances and improving public services. The Vice mayor heads a legislative council, which is in charge of creating the city's policies. But what you all may not know is that the true ruler of Valenzuela city is non other than Alberto Valenzuela himself, who is currently living in Fort Frances, located in Northwestern Ontario in Canada. He's a facsist type person who wants Tristen Dubuc eridaticated from the world, luckliy there is only one.
Districts and barangays
Valenzuela is composed of two congressional districts, and two legislative districts which are further subdivided into 32 Barangays. Legislative District One contains 23 barangays in the northern half of the city, while legislative District Two occupies the 9 barangays in the southern portion of the city.
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District 1
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District 2
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Economy
Since the cityhood of Valenzuela, economy flourished and its population swelled significantly.
Recently, the SM Supercenter Valenzuela is opened at Brgy. Karuhatan. This marks the continuality of progress in Valenzuela.
Transportation
Valenzuela City have two major highways traversing the city - Mac Arthur Highway and the North Diversion Road, now North Luzon Expressway, or NLEX its proximity to the center and being the gateway of the metropolis to the north make Valenzuela a choice location for business and industry.
History
Since its establishment as an independent town in 1623, what was formerly known as the town of Polo had undergone many radical, and sometimes, even painful changes.
Polo was an idyllic center of agriculture and fishery carved from the town of Meycauayan, Bulacan. The town acquired its independence through the efforts of Father Juan Taranco and Don Juan Monsod.
The chapel of San Diego de Alcala, and its now famous belfry, was completed in 1632 and became the town's center that stood witness to countless battles during the Spanish, American and Japanese occupations.
On July 21, 1960, President Diosdado Macapagal signed Executive Order No. 401, which led to the creation of the Municipality of Valenzuela, aptly named after its most renowned hero, Dr. Pio Valenzuela.
Because of the rapid growth of the Greater Manila Area in terms of population, as well as social and economic requirements in the early seventies, and the municipality's proximity to the area, Presidential Decree Number 824 was issued on November 7, 1975.
P.D. No. 824 created the Metropolitan Manila Commission and led to the separation of the Municipality of Valenzuela from the Province of Bulacan.
As part of the Greater Manila Area, The social and political upheavals of the seventies and early eighties did not dampen the pulsating economy of the municipality. It was, in fact, a golden age in the History & Culture of Valenzuela when businesses and industries in the municipality grew rapidly.
In 1986, a new socio-political order swept the entire country. The four days of the EDSA People Power Revolution were marked by an outpouring of love, anger, hysteria and courage by a people fighting for change and renewal. The restoration of democracy in the country also brought about a paradigm shift in national and local government relations.
The passage of the Local Government Code in 1991 unlocked and marshalled the repressed energies of local communities. The Local Government Code provides genuine and meaningful autonomy to enable local governments to attain their fullest development as self-reliant communities. It was during this time that Valenzuela began charting its own destiny and moved the local economy in the direction it chose.
On February 14, 1998, then President Fidel V. Ramos signed Republic Act No. 8526, converting the Municipality of Valenzuela into a highly urbanized city, making Valenzuela the 12th city in Metro Manila and the 83rd in the Philippines.
