BITUKANG MANOK (Parian Creek)

The waterway of Bitukang Manok is serpentine like and was a principal part of the Pasig River.

BITUKANG MANOK

The Spaniards named the river as “Rio de Pasig,” however, the people continued to refer to it among themselves as Bitukang Manok. The first sketch of Bitukang Manok or Pasig River became known as the Pariancillo River where its bank flourished as the public market up to 1970’s. Likewise, the Bitukang Manok contributed immensely to the economic prosperity of Pasig since time immemorial, by irrigating its rice plains.

The Bitukang Manok links the Pasig River with the Antipolo River. During the 17th up to the early 20th century, many pilgrims from Manila and nearby towns took the route of Bitukang Manok to the Shrine in Antipolo. Even the image of the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage passed this way back and forth eleven times. In the 18th century, the Gremio de Mestizos de Sangley or Chinese Mestizos built a concrete covered bridge in the style of a pagoda over this waterway. It was called Pariancillo Bridge and later, Fray Felix Trillo Bridge in honor of Pasig’s dynamic pastor.

The Katipunan led by Andres Bonifacio and Emilio Aguinaldo also held part of the Asamblea Magna aboard seventeen bancas on

this river in the first week of May 1896. The post war period saw the drastic decline of the Bitukang Manok. It also succumbed to environmental pollution due to population growth.

The worst came to the Bitukang Manok River in the late 1960’s when the ailing river, instead of being revived was buried under the ground to give way to commercial establishments.

This picture was taken circal 1899. Its two sides is now developed as a promenade for those who wish to walk along the 3.6kms length that starts infront of McDonald and end at Asahi Glass in Pinagbuhatan.

OTHER HISTORICAL PLACES IN PASIG

• TANGHALANG PASIGUENO - Home of Theatre and Arts of Pasig
• IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHEDRAL
• KAPASIGAN: Panederia Dimas-Alang since 1919
• BAHAY NA TISA and its history
• MAYBUNGA SAN ANTONIO ABAD CHURCH
• PASIG CITY MUSEUM
• PINAGBUHATAN SAN SEBASTIAN CHURCH
• RIZAL BOY SCOUT COUNCIL HEADQUARTERS
• A. MABINI STREET - The Busy Strip of Kapasigan, Pasig City
• Pasig Revolving Tower (Location, Rates, Hours - Everything You Need To Know)

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Pasig is a city in the Philippines. Located along the eastern border of Metro Manila, Pasig is bordered on the west by Quezon City and Mandaluyong; to the north by Marikina; to the south by Makati, Pateros, and Taguig; and to the east by Antipolo, the municipality of Cainta and Taytay in the province of Rizal.

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