Amorsolo Street

Amorsolo Street is a minor north-south roadway that runs parallel to Chino Roces Avenue in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. The street starts inside Dasmariñas Village, continues north to San Lorenzo Village with some discontinuities, and into the western edge of the Makati Central Business District, where it ends at the intersection with Ayala Avenue. The street is named for renowned Filipino painter and national artist Fernando Amorsolo.

Route description

The southern end of Amorsolo Street is at Tamarind Road within Barangay Dasmariñas where it serves as the boundary between the gated Dasmariñas and Ecology Villages, as well as barangays Dasmariñas and Magallanes. It is interrupted by the Magallanes Interchange and the MRT Line 3 at the intersection with Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA). On the other side of EDSA, the road picks up as a residential street within San Lorenzo Village where it forms the village's western border with Ecology Village, running next to a creek. At Arnaiz Avenue, the road leaves the gated village and widens to eight lanes from four with the opening of slightly elevated southbound lanes over the Amorsolo Creek to accommodate increased traffic from Skyway's Amorsolo Exit that merges onto the road. Located within Legazpi Village, the section between Arnaiz Avenue and Dela Rosa Street is dominated by old low to mid rise buildings on the eastern side and the Makati Cinema Square and Mile Long complexes on the western side. North of Dela Rosa, Amorsolo narrows back to four lanes carrying northbound traffic to its terminus at Ayala Avenue.

Amorsolo Creek

In 2000, Skyway builder, PT Citra Metro Manila Tollways Corp., was fined for violating environmental regulations when it covered up the creek in Amorsolo Street and reclaimed the Palili creek in Bicutan. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources attributed the flooding in those areas to the construction of the Skyway on/off ramps on top of those ''esteros''.

Landmarks

* Amorsolo Mansion
* CAP College Foundation Building
* Creekside Amorsolo
* The Columns Legazpi
* Makati Cinema Square (now Makati Central Square)
* Makati Medical Center
* Medical Plaza
* Mile Long Compound
* NEDA sa Makati Building
* Office of the Solicitor General
* PeopleSupport
* Philippine Tourism Authority (now Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority)

References

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Streets in Metro Manila