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| | MAKATI CITY INFORMATION |
 | | Makati is a bustling cosmopolitan city, a few kilometers from Manila, stretching comfortably over almost 3,000 hectares and housing nearly 500,000 people. |
 | | Continued rapid growth over the past 25 years has made Makati the commercial, communication and financial center of the Philippines where trendy boutiques, fashionable restaurants and department stores mingle with banks, corporate head offices and embassies. |
 | | Statues of Filipino patriots Ninoy Aquino, Gabriela Silang, and Pio del Pilar are silent sentinels on the intersections of three major thoroughfares, Paseo de Roxas, Ayala Avenue, and Makati Avenue. |
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