Caloocan
Caloocan or Kalookan is a city in northern Metro Manila. Caloocan is a large suburb of Manila, and is predominantly residential, mostly home to people relocated from Manila's slums. There is also a noticeable lack of tourist attractions.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 1,660,000 residents
- Description: city of the Philippines in Metro Manila
- Also known as: “Caloocan City”, “Caloocan, Metro Manila”, and “City of Caloocan”
- Neighbors: Malabon, Manila, Marilao, Meycauayan, Navotas, Quezon City, San Jose del Monte, and Valenzuela
Places of Interest
Highlights include Monumento station and 5th Avenue station.
Monumento station
Railway station
Photo: Rarijackcabz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monumento station is an elevated Light Rail Transit station located on the LRT Line 1 system in the southern portion of Caloocan. It is named after the most famous landmark of Caloocan, the Monumento Circle, which houses the Bonifacio Monument, a famous monument to Filipino revolutionary Andrés Bonifacio.
5th Avenue station
Railway station
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
5th Avenue station is an elevated Light Rail Transit station located on the LRT Line 1 system in Caloocan, Philippines. The station is situated on the intersection of Rizal Avenue Extension and 5th Avenue, after which the station is named, at the boundaries of Grace Park East and Grace Park West.
Andres Bonifacio Monument
Obelisk
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Andrés Bonifacio Monument, commonly known simply as Bonifacio Monument or Monumento, is a memorial monument in Caloocan, Philippines, which was designed by National Artist Guillermo Tolentino to commemorate the Philippine revolutionary Andrés Bonifacio, the founder and Supremo of the Katipunan, who fought for independence from colonial rule by Spain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Malabon and Navotas.
Malabon
Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Malabon City is a city in Metro Manila, known for its wide variety of seafoods and the well-known noodle, the pancit malabon.
Navotas
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Navotas, officially the City of Navotas, is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 252,878 people.
Tondo and San Nicolas
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tondo is a large, culturally diverse district of Manila. Being near to Binondo, many Filipino-Chinese roam around this area, and also have different kinds of businesses situated in this area.
Caloocan
- Categories: highly urbanized city, city of the Philippines, municipality of the Philippines, and locality
- Location: Northern Manila District, Metro Manila, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.6513° or 14° 39′ 5″ northLongitude
120.9724° or 120° 58′ 21″ eastPopulation
1,660,000Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)Open location code
7Q62MX2C+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 573387907OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1720151Wikidata ID
Q1478
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Caloocan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Caloocan”
- Amis: “Caloocan”
- Arabic: “كالوكان”
- Aragonese: “Caloocan”
- Asturian: “Caloocan”
- Balinese: “Caloocan”
- Banjar: “Caloocan”
- Basque: “Caloocan”
- Batak Toba: “Caloocan”
- Belarusian: “Калукан”
- Bengali: “ক্যালুকান”
- Bengali: “ক্যালুক্যান”
- Buginese: “Caloocan”
- Capiznon: “Caloocan”
- Catalan: “Caloocan”
- Cebuano: “Caloocan”
- Cebuano: “Dakbayan sa Caloocan”
- Central Bikol: “Caloocan”
- Chavacano: “Caloocan”
- Chechen: “Калоокан”
- Chinese: “Caloocan”
- Chinese: “加洛坎”
- Chinese: “加洛坎市”
- Croatian: “Caloocan”
- Czech: “Caloocan”
- Dagbani: “Caloocan”
- Danish: “Caloocan”
- Dimli (individual language): “Caloocan”
- Dutch: “Caloocan”
- Esperanto: “Caloocan”
- Esperanto: “Kalookano”
- Estonian: “Caloocan”
- Fijian: “Caloocan”
- Filipino: “Caloocan”
- Finnish: “Caloocan”
- French: “Caloocan”
- Georgian: “კალოოკანი”
- German: “Caloocan”
- Gorontalo: “Caloocan”
- Greek: “Καλούκαν”
- Gujarati: “કેલોકન”
- Gujarati: “કેલોકેન”
- Hausa: “Caloocan”
- Hebrew: “קלואוקן”
- Hiligaynon: “Caloocan”
- Hindi: “कैलुकेन”
- Hindi: “सलूकन”
- Hiri Motu: “Caloocan”
- Hungarian: “Caloocan”
- Igbo: “Caloocan”
- Iloko: “Caloocan”
- Indonesian: “Caloocan”
- Indonesian: “Kota Caloocan”
- Irish: “Caloocan”
- Italian: “Caloocan”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Caloocan”
- Japanese: “カローカン”
- Japanese: “カローカン市”
- Javanese: “Caloocan”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಯಾಲೋಕಾನ್”
- Kinaray-A: “Caloocan”
- Kongo: “Caloocan”
- Korean: “칼로오칸”
- Korean: “칼로칸”
- Korean: “캘루컨”
- Latvian: “Kalookana”
- Lithuanian: “Kalookanas”
- Lithuanian: “Kalukanas”
- Malagasy: “Caloocan”
- Malay: “Bandar Caloocan”
- Malay: “Caloocan”
- Maori: “Caloocan”
- Marathi: “कॅलोकॅन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Caloocan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “加洛干”
- Min Nan Chinese: “加洛干市”
- Minangkabau: “Caloocan”
- Mingrelian: “კალოკან-სიტი”
- Mingrelian: “კალოოკანი”
- Mingrelian: “კალუკანი”
- Moksha: “Калоокан”
- Mongolian: “Калоокан”
- Nauru: “Caloocan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Caloocan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kalookan”
- Norwegian: “Caloocan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Caloocan”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caloocan”
- Oromo: “Caloocan”
- Paiwan: “Caloocan”
- Pampanga: “Caloocan Lakanbalen”
- Pampanga: “Caloocan”
- Pangasinan: “Caloocan”
- Pangasinan: “Siyudad na Caloocan”
- Persian: “کالوکان”
- Persian: “کلوکلن”
- Polish: “Caloocan”
- Portuguese: “Caloocan”
- Quechua: “Caloocan”
- Rinconada Bikol: “Caloocan”
- Romanian: “Caloocan”
- Russian: “Калоокан”
- Russian: “Калукан”
- Sakizaya: “Caloocan”
- Samoan: “Caloocan”
- Scots: “Caloocan”
- Sinhala: “කලුකන්”
- Sinhala: “කලුකාන්”
- Spanish: “Caloocan”
- Sundanese: “Caloocan”
- Swahili: “Caloocan”
- Swedish: “Caloocan”
- Swedish: “Kalookan”
- Tagalog: “Caloocan”
- Tagalog: “Kalookan”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod Kalookan”
- Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Kalookan”
- Tahitian: “Caloocan”
- Tamil: “கலூக்கன்”
- Tamil: “காலூக்கான்”
- Tatar: “Калоокан”
- Telugu: “కాలూకన్ నగరం”
- Telugu: “కాలూకన్”
- Tetum: “Caloocan”
- Thai: “คาลูกัน”
- Thai: “คาลูกาน”
- Thai: “คาโลโอคัน”
- Tok Pisin: “Caloocan”
- Turkish: “Caloocan”
- Ukrainian: “Калоокан”
- Urdu: “کالوکان”
- Vietnamese: “Caloocan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Caloocan”
- Welsh: “Caloocan”
- Xhosa: “Caloocan”
- Yoruba: “Caloocan”
- Yue Chinese: “加洛坎”
- Zulu: “Caloocan”
- “Caloocan”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Caloocan”. Photo: Ramon FVelasquez, CC BY-SA 3.0.