Setapak

Setapak is a town and mukim that straddles northeastern Kuala Lumpur and the Gombak District of Selangor in Malaysia. It was once a tin-mining and rubber estate area, and its name is traced either to the Malay word tapak, meaning step, and so one step from Kuala Lumpur, or to Batu Tapak, a headman of the aboriginal Orang Asli people whom the British Resident of Selangor, Frank Swettenham, asked to have re-appointed in April 1884. The earliest inhabitants were Orang Asli and Minangkabau settlers. The Selangor part of the mukim covers about 160 square kilometres and is crossed by the Gombak River, which rises on Gunung Bunga Buah. The district holds Loke Yew Hill, with the ruins of the Loke family villa, and the National Zoo of Malaysia, opened in 1963.