Samson Road is a major east–west street in

Caloocan Caloocan, officially the City of Caloocan ( fil, Lungsod ng Caloocan; ), is a 1st class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in Metropolitan Manila, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population ...

, northern

Metro Manila Metropolitan Manila (often shortened as Metro Manila; fil, Kalakhang Maynila), officially the National Capital Region (NCR; fil, link=no, Pambansang Punong Rehiyon), is the capital region, seat of government and one of three List of metrop ...

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. The road is a continuation of

Epifanio de los Santos Avenue Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, commonly referred to by its acronym EDSA, is a limited-access circumferential highway around Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. It passes through 6 of Metro Manila's 17 local government units or citi ...

(EDSA), linked to it via the

Bonifacio Monument 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 And ...

Roundabout (Monumento) to form a single through route. These roads form part of

Circumferential Road 4 Circumferential Road 4 (C-4), informally known as the C-4 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the fourth beltway of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the cities of Caloocan, Makati, Malabon, Man ...

(C-4) of the

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, National Route 120 of the

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, and Asian Highway 26 of the

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. Samson Road is named for Apolonio Samson, a

Katipunan The Katipunan, officially known as the Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan or Kataastaasan Kagalang-galang na Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (KKK; en, Supreme and Honorable Association of the Children of the Nation ...

barrio lieutenant from Sitio Kangkong, Balintawak, Caloocan (now part of

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) who fought alongside Andres Bonifacio during the Philippine Revolution.

Route

Samson Road, the main road in South Caloocan, officially begins at the

Circle (Monumento), the junction with

EDSA Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, commonly referred to by its acronym EDSA, is a limited-access circumferential highway around Manila, the capital city of the Philippines. It passes through 6 of Metro Manila's 17 local government units or cities, ...

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and Rizal Avenue Extension, and ends at the junction with A. Mabini and Marcelo H. Del Pilar Streets. At its eastern terminus, it runs between Araneta Square Mall and

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Monumento (on the northwest corner of Rizal Avenue and Samson Road) and SM Hypermarket Monumento (on the southwest corner of

and Samson) at Monumento. For much of its length, the road is generally commercial, with a mix of high-density residential zones as well as a few schools. Notable sites along the road are the

University of the East Caloocan The University of the East, Caloocan Extension Campus (''Pamantasan ng Silangan'' and commonly abbreviated as UE Caloocan or UE Cal) is a private higher education institution in Caloocan, Philippines. It is one of the three campuses of the Univ ...

(formerly UE Tech), SM Center Sangandaan, and the

Caloocan railway station Caloocan station (also called Sangandaan station) is a railway station located on the North Main Line in Caloocan, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is rebuilt from its original location, now situated adjacent to the Caloocan railway depot, near Sams ...

. It is also the home of the

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and the

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Hospital (Col. Salvador T. Villa Memorial Hospital). At its western terminus, it continues west as Gen. San Miguel Street.

History

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Samson Road, formerly called as Calle Samson, used to reach as far as near

Malabon Malabon, officially the City of Malabon ( fil, Lungsod ng Malabon), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 380,522 people. Located just nort ...

to the west and

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in the present-day

to the east. It comprised the segments currently known as Gen. San Miguel Street,

(from Monumento to Balintawak), and apparently the Old Samson Road that reached Sitio Kangkong, where its namesake hailed from. Its section west of Mabini and Del Pilar, now Gen. San Miguel Street, used to be the right-of-way alignment of '' tranvias Manila–Malabon line until 1945. It became part of the Manila Circumferential Road (present-day EDSA; Highway 54 or Route 54) until the 1950s. It was later made part of

, when the proposal for the Metro Manila Arterial Road System was done in the late 1960s.

References

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