Pandacan is a district of the City of Manila in the Philippines, located south of the banks of the Pasig River and belongs under the 6th congressional district of Manila, divided into thirty eight (38) barangays that includes Zone 90 to Zone 95 and barangays 833 to 872.
Based on a year 2000 survey of the National Statistics Office, Pandacan has a total population of close to 82,194. The original residents of the district are Tagalog speaking migr...
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Pandacan is a district of the City of Manila in the Philippines, located south of the banks of the Pasig River and belongs under the 6th congressional district of Manila, divided into thirty eight (38) barangays that includes Zone 90 to Zone 95 and barangays 833 to 872.
Based on a year 2000 survey of the National Statistics Office, Pandacan has a total population of close to 82,194. The original residents of the district are Tagalog speaking migrants from the province of Bulacan. When the district grew and progressed as a manufacturing center for Manila, several migrants from other parts of the country moved into the district after the Second World War.
The district is bounded to the east by the Pasig River, the district of Sta. Ana to the southwest Ermita to the east and the district of Paco to the northeast.
Majority of the residents of Pandacan belong to the generally lower to upper middle class brackets. Original residents were gainfully employed as blue collar workers in the...
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