Navotas

Navotas is a highly urbanized coastal city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines, a narrow strip of land on Manila Bay in the northwest of Metro Manila. It forms the CAMANAVA area with Caloocan, Malabon and Valenzuela and is known as the commercial fishing hub of the country, with the third largest fish port in Asia and the largest in Southeast Asia. Its name is traced to the Tagalog idea of a place breached or pierced through by water, recalling the channel that became the Navotas River. The town was established on February 16, 1859, after the barrios of San José and Bangkulasi separated from Tambobong, now Malabon, though its foundation day is kept on January 16 for the day in 1906 when it finally separated from Malabon. It became a highly urbanized city on June 24, 2007, and had a 2024 population of 252,878.