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METRO MANILA: Best of the Islands Philippines Pasig City Brief History There are several and different legends about the origin of the word “Pasig.” A pair of lovers, named Virgilio, a Spanish mestizo and a Filipina beauty named Paz, customarily spent their evening together on the bank of the river. They found a banca and went boating one moonlit night but as fate had it, the banca capsized. Virgilio not knowing how to swim, was carried away by the current and desperately kept afloat but to no avail. He shouted “Paz sigue me” (meaning “Paz, come with me”), until he could only utter Paz sig and finally sank into the river. Thus, the name Pasig. |
Source of Information: Department of Tourism, Philippines |
It was also believed that it
came from the Sanskrit word “passis” or sand and refers
to the community on a river bank which was sandy. Historians
who are less inclined to rely on a legendary romantic origins
traced the town’s name to the word “mabagsik”
meaning violent in action or force which aptly describes the
river. Its strong and swift current brought the woods of Montalban
to Manila.
It was also called “mapaksik”
by the Chinese living in Binondo. As time went on, “mapaksik”
became “Pasik” then later on “Pasig”. Another
belief was that it was derived from “pasigan” which
means “baybay ng ilog”, river edge or bank in English.
The most convincing theory on
the origin of the name comes from the late Dr. Jose Villa Panganiban,
linguist, polyglot, professor, and former director of The Institute
of National Language, who said that “Pasig” is an old
Sanskrit word referring to a “river flowing from one body
of water to another,” in the case of the Pasig River, from
Laguna de Bay (pronounced Ba-I) to Manila Bay.
Political Subdivision
Pasig is directly under the jurisdiction
of the Metro Manila Authority. Before it became a
part of Metro Manila, it was the capital of the province of Rizal,
then the premier province of the country.
At the helm of the local government
is the mayor, assisted by the vice-mayor and the
municipal council. The Pasig Town Hall is the seat of government
located at the end of a wide, well-paved and well llighted Caruncho
Avenue in the center of the town. It has thirty barangays, each
headed by a barnagay captain with a barangay council that oversee
the continuing projects of the barrio.
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It was also believed that it came from the Sanskrit word “passis” or sand and refers to the community on a river bank which was sandy. Historians who are less inclined to rely on a legendary romantic origins traced the town’s name to the word “mabagsik” meaning violent in action or force which aptly describes the river. Its strong and swift current brought the woods of Montalban to Manila. It was also called “mapaksik” by the Chinese living in Binondo. As time went on, “mapaksik” became “Pasik” then later on “Pasig”. Another belief was that it was derived from “pasigan” which means “baybay ng ilog”, river edge or bank in English. The most convincing theory on the origin of the name comes from the late Dr. Jose Villa Panganiban, linguist, polyglot, professor, and former director of The Institute of National Language, who said that “Pasig” is an old Sanskrit word referring to a “river flowing from one body of water to another,” in the case of the Pasig River, from Laguna de Bay (pronounced Ba-I) to Manila Bay. Political Subdivision Pasig is directly under the jurisdiction
of the Metro Manila Authority. Before it became a At the helm of the local government
is the mayor, assisted by the vice-mayor and the Geography / Language - Tourist Attractions - Tourist Facilities
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