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Star City is a 35,000 m 2 (380,000 sq ft) amusement park in Pasay, Philippines. It is located in the reclaimed area of the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex , part of Bay City . The facility is owned by Star Parks Corporation, a subsidiary of Elizalde Holdings Corporation (the holding company of the FJE Group of Companies).
Binondo. (2020 [ 1 ]) Binondo ( Chinese : 岷倫洛; pinyin : Mínlúnluò; Pe̍h-ōe-jī : Bîn-lûn-lo̍h) is a district in Manila and is referred to as the city's Chinatown. [ 2 ] Its influence extends beyond to the places of Quiapo, Santa Cruz, San Nicolas and Tondo.
The Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex, also known as the CCP Complex, is an 88-hectare (220-acre) art district managed by the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) located along Roxas Boulevard in Metro Manila, Philippines. It is a mixed-use cultural and tourism hub overlooking Manila Bay in south-central Manila, most of which fall ...
Location map of Manila. / 14.59645; 120.9774. Module:Location map/data/Philippines City of Manila is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Manila. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Manila Mint (Old La Intendencia Building) In 1920, the Manila Mint was reopened under United States auspices, [ 1] and was the first (and to date only) U.S. branch mint located outside the Continental United States. It produced coins until 1922 and then again from 1925 to 1941, when the Japanese Empire invaded the Philippines during World War II.
The Philippine peso is ultimately derived from the Spanish peso or pieces of eight brought over in large quantities by the Manila galleons of the 16th to 19th centuries. From the same Spanish peso or dollar is derived the various pesos of Latin America, the dollars of the US and Hong Kong, as well as the Chinese yuan and the Japanese yen. [1 ...
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of 7,641 islands, with a total area of 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
The Philippine International Convention Center ( Filipino: Sentrong Pangkumbensyong Pandaigdig ng Pilipinas, or PICC) is a convention center located in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines. The facility has been the host of numerous local and foreign conventions, meetings, fairs, and social events.