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In this pandemic time, a lot of people have been complaining about the hospitality of the hospital facilities in other cities. Where some are not prepared enough or didn't have much space to accommodate all of the Covid patients in their hospitals. Meanwhile, there's this one municipality that have been praised by its preparedness on Covid19. Municipality of Pateros were hailed by the Coordinated Operations to Defeat Epidemic (CODE) Team and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). This proves that the Municipality have been focusing on the health and well being of its people. Read more: CODE Team, MMDA hail Pateros COVID-19 Vaccination Plan | Philippine Information Agency (pia.gov.ph)

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A 2019 Article states that Pateros is one of the least poor provinces/city during the first semester of year 2019 along with Las Pinas, Makati, Muntinlupa, Paranaque, Pasay City, and Taguig with a percentage of 3.8%. However, during 1960's to 2000 the agricultural activities in Pateros had decreased by 73% while industrialization increased from zero manufacturing to 227 units, commerce and trade from 100 units in the 1960s to 1,120 units by 2000, and the entry of a total 55 commercial banking and peoples based credit organizations according to a study. This phenomenon had wreaked havoc on the ecology of the town, as well as adversely affecting the endogenous way of life of the local people. There is a total of around 1 million duck eggs produced yearly in Pateros and around 70% of these are processed into "balut" or duck egg embryo. Balut, as a local industry, is able to radiate the system of interdependence between ecology and anthropology of Pateros. This industry has been the lifeblood of the mainstream economic system in this town, rivers-snaill gatherers-duck raisers and balut makers.

Government officials take a step in allowing the locals to use industrial ways to produce baluts in order to easily make more of it, earn more profit and lift up the economy from poverty. Today, Pateros has become part of the 3.8% of the least poor in the country. But the downside of this step is that the cool and beautiful rivers have died. Green lands are replaced by the entry of subdivisions and industrial plants. The rows of bamboos beside the riverbanks are now replaced by the towers of high tension wires and cell sites. This has created the imbalances between the system of economic capital vis-a-vis natural and cultural capital.

Pateros, Paradise Lost in Economic Globalization (pateros-philippines.com)

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As early as 1834, Pateros has been raising and selling duck and maintaining a fishing industry. However, since the duck raising industry declined after the Pasig River, which is connected to the Pateros River too polluted around the 1970s or 1980s.

Vendors continues to sell balut in Pateros, taking advantage of the association of the food item to the town with duck eggs supplied from neighboring provinces in the Calabarzon region. While the duck raising industry in the town is now minimal, the local government is encouraging the growth of the balut industry. It gives tax exemptions to balut vendors in the town. As of 2017, the local government is encouraging the growth of other industries in Pateros such as business process outsourcing although the town's size, 1.76 square kilometers (0.68 sq mi), remains a hindrance.

According to the town's 2005 classification report. 3.13% of its land area is classified as commercial, 0.39% industrial, and 0.88% agricultural.

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Pateros is a landlocked municipality in the National Capital Region.
Its population as determined by the 2015 Census was 63,840. This represented 0.50% of the total population of the National Capital Region. Based on these figures, the population density is computed at 6,138 inhabitants per square kilometer or 15,881 inhabitants per square mile.

According to the 2015 Census, the age group with the highest population in Pateros is 20 to 24, with 6,354 individuals. Conversely, the age group with the lowest population is 80 and over, with 486 individuals.

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Pateros City is one of the 17 cities located within the 4th district of the Metro Manila Area.

Pateros is approximately 13 kilometers southeast of Manila and north of the Pasig River. It lies between 1210° 03' 35" and 1210° 04' 40" longitude and 140° 32' 20" and 140° 33' 20" latitude. It is bounded by Pasig City on the northeast, the City of Taguig on the south, and Makati City on the northwest and the Pateros River on the west.

The municipal government of Pateros claims that its original land area was not its present land area of 2.10 km² but 1,040 hectares (10.4 km²) including Fort BOnifacio, particularly Barangays Comembo, Pembo, East Rembo, West Rembo, Cembo, South Cembo and Pitogo which are now part of the city of Makati and Bonifacio Global City (known as Post Proper Northside by Makati, and Mamancat, the former part of Pateros) which was made part of Taguig, based on documents and official maps obtained by former Pateros Councilor Dominador Rosales from 30 libraries and offices including USA Library of Congress and USA Archives. One of those maps was the 1968 Land Classification Map of the Bureau of Land. This Municipality only has 10 Barangays.

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Pateros, officially the Municipality of Pateros (Tagalog : Bayan ng Pateros), is the lone and 1st class municipality in Metropolitan Manila, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 63,643 people.

This municipality is famous for its duck-raising industry and especially for producing balut, a Filipino delicacy, which is a boiled, fertilised duck egg. Pateros is also known for the production of red salty eggs and "inutak", a local rice cake. Moreover, the town is known for manufacturing of "alfombra", a locally-made footwear with a carpet-like fabric on its top surface. Pateros is bordered by the following highly urbanized cities of Pasig to the north, Makati to the west, and Taguig to the south.

Pateros is the only municipality and the smallest, both in population and in land area, in Metro Manila, but it is the second most densely populated at around 29,000 people per square kilometer after Manila.