Quiapo
Quiapo is a district in the bustling, busy and crowded city of Manila. Quiapo gets it name from a floating plant named; "Kiapo" that grew abundantly around that area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 32,200 residents
- Description: district of Manila, Philippines
- Also known as: “Old Downtown of Manila”, “Quiapo District”, and “Quiapo, Manila”
Places of Interest
Highlights include San Sebastian Church and Malacañang Palace.
San Sebastian Church
Church
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The Minor Basilica and Parish of San Sebastian, also known as the Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and commonly known as San Sebastian Church or San Sebastian Basilica, is a minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church in Manila, Philippines.
Malacañang Palace
Government office
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Malacañang Palace, officially known as Malacañán Palace, is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the Philippines. It is located in the Manila district of San Miguel, along Jose Laurel Street, though it is commonly associated with nearby Mendiola Street.
Masjid Al-Dahab
Mosque
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Masjid Al-Dahab, officially known as Manila Golden Mosque and Cultural Center, is a mosque situated in the predominantly Muslim section of the Quiapo district in Manila, Philippines, and is considered the largest mosque in Metro Manila.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Intramuros and Binondo.
Intramuros
Intramuros, also known as the Ciudad Murada because of its most famous feature: a nearly 5-km-long circuit of massive stone walls and fortifications that almost completely surrounds the entire district, is the historic centre and oldest district of Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.
Binondo
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Binondo is the "Chinatown" district of Manila. It is the oldest Chinatown in the world and was the country's center of commerce during the American occupation.
Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz is a district in the northern part of the City of Manila on the right bank of the Pasig River near its mouth, bordered by the districts of Tondo, Binondo, Quiapo, and Sampaloc, and Grace Park and La Loma.
Quiapo
- Categories: district of Manila and locality
- Location: Quiapo, Capital District, Manila, Metro Manila, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
14.59826° or 14° 35′ 54″ northLongitude
120.98361° or 120° 59′ 1″ eastPopulation
32,200Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)United Nations Location Code
PH QUAOpen location code
7Q62HXXM+8COpenStreetMap ID
node 1080105342OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Quiapo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قويابو”
- Arabic: “وسط مانيلا القديم”
- Armenian: “Քույապո”
- Asturian: “Quiapo”
- Catalan: “Quiapo”
- Cebuano: “Quiapo”
- Central Bikol: “Quiapo, Manila”
- Central Bikol: “Quiapo”
- Chinese: “奎阿坡区”
- Chinese: “奎阿坡區”
- Chinese: “溪仔婆區”
- Dutch: “Quiapo”
- Filipino: “Kiyabo”
- Filipino: “Quiapo”
- Hebrew: “קוויאפו”
- Japanese: “キアポ”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Quiapo”
- Min Nan Chinese: “溪亞婆”
- Min Nan Chinese: “溪亞婆區”
- Russian: “Киапо”
- Spanish: “Quiapo”
- Tagalog: “Quiapo, Maynila”
- Tagalog: “Quiapo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Quiapo, Manila”
- Waray (Philippines): “Quiapo”
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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 “Quiapo”. Photo: Obra19, CC BY-SA 3.0.