Macapagal Boulevard, also known as President Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard and Macapagal Avenue, is an eight-lane road in

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, running parallel to Roxas Boulevard from the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in

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to Asia World City in

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. It was named after former

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Diosdado Macapagal Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr. (; September 28, 1910 – April 21, 1997) was a Filipino lawyer, poet and politician who served as the ninth president of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth vice president, serving from 1 ...

. This road has three major bridges, crossing the 'channels', of which the largest is the Libertad Channel, where the Libertad Water Pumping Station is situated. Thanks to intersection reconfiguring around EDSA to relieve traffic, Macapagal Boulevard is now often used to access the

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to the north and

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to the south. It is also the main major road in Metro Manila's reclamation area called Bay City.

Route description

Macapagal Boulevard commences at the intersection with

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, the partner highway in Bay City in the Cultural Center of the Philippines Complex in Pasay, where

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is located. It serves as the logical continuation of Magdalena Jalandoni Street. It heads south across Financial Center consisting of the Philippine National Bank headquarters and the

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complex, which houses the Philippine Senate. South of the Libertad channel, the boulevard enters Metropolitan Park and the SM Central Business Park, intersecting with

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(EDSA) before entering the

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development, home of the Department of Foreign Affairs–Office of Consular Affairs Building and

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. At Asean Avenue, Macapagal traverses the Entertainment City gaming complex with Solaire Resort & Casino and City of Dreams Manila (formerly Belle Grande Manila) dominating this stretch up to Seaside Boulevard, an extension of NAIA Road. Near the Seaside Boulevard junction are the

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ramps that provide access to the

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and connect it to the

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. The Manila Southwest Integrated Bus Terminal is housed within the former Uniwide Coastal Mall grounds at Seaside Boulevard, while the

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is located few meters south. Macapagal's current southern terminus is Pacific Avenue in Marina Baytown East village in Parañaque, where most traffic turns left towards the

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. It also has a short extension towards the southern edge of Asiaworld, with the Las Piñas–Parañaque Critical Habitat and Ecotourism Area as the terminating vista.

Landmarks

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* Blue Bay Walk * City of Dreams Manila * Dampa Seafood Market * Department of Foreign Affairs–Office of Consular Affairs Building * DoubleDragon Plaza * HK Sun Plaza * Hobbies of Asia * Icon Hotel * Manila Tytana Colleges * Marina Bay Village * Met Live Mall (built on the former site of Blue Wave Macapagal) * Philippine National Bank Financial Center * Sentosia Condominiums * Solaire Resort & Casino * Uniwide Coastal Mall * W Mall *

Notes

References

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