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Barangay in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines

Marikina Heights

Marikina Heights is one of the largest barangays of Marikina measuring some 206 hectares.

Marikina Heights
Marikina Heights · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Marikina Heights is one of the largest barangays of Marikina measuring some 206 hectares. Once a privately owned hacienda, it is now populated by 38,795 people according to the 2010 National Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Marikina Heights

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Miriam College

    Miriam College is a non-stock, non-profit Filipino Catholic educational institution for girls and young women in Quezon City, Philippines. It also has two satellite campuses in Sta.

    3.8 km · Exclusive all-girls school college in Quezon City, Philippines · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Marikina Church

    The Diocesan Shrine and Parish of Nuestra Señora de los Desamparados, commonly known as Marikina Church, is a Roman Catholic church in Marikina, the Philippines. The church enshrines one of several images of the Madonna and Child venerated as miraculous, which has received a Pontifical decree of coronation.

    3.5 km · Roman Catholic church in Marikina, Philippines · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Marikina Shoe Museum

    The Shoe Museum, formerly known as the Footwear Museum of Marikina, is a museum in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines.

    3.6 km · museum in Manila, Philippines · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Minor Basilica and Diocesan Shrine-Parish of Saint Paul of the Cross

    The Minor Basilica and Diocesan Shrine of Saint Paul of the Cross is a Roman Catholic minor basilica in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines.

    1.5 km · Roman Catholic church in Marikina, Philippines · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    SM City San Mateo

    SM City San Mateo is a shopping mall owned by the largest mall developer in the Philippines, SM Prime Holdings. It is located along Gen.

    3 km · shopping mall in the Philippines · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Marikina

    Marikina, officially the City of Marikina, is a highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 471,323 people.

    1.4 km · Public university · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Marikina Cityhood Park

    Marikina Cityhood Park is a public park along the corner of Sumulong Highway and Shoe Avenue in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines. It features a 12 m concrete monument with a clock and 12 bells sourced from Italy as well as a fountain.

    3 km · Public park in Metro Manila, Philippines · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Loyola Memorial Park

    The Loyola Memorial Park is a cemetery and columbarium in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines. It was established in 1964, and was developed by Group Developers, Inc., which operates a second Loyola Memorial Park in Sucat, Parañaque.

    3.9 km · cemetery in Marikina, Metro Manila · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Jesus dela Peña Chapel

    Jesús de la Peña Chapel or San Isidro Labrador Church is a historic visita in Marikina, Philippines where the first catholic mass in Marikina was held. Built by the Society of Jesus in the year 1630 with the permission of the reigning Archbishop of Manila, its establishment marked the beginning of the recorded history of Marikina, which was once a vast and mountainous area traversed by the Marikina River.

    3.6 km · Roman Catholic chapel in Marikina, Philippines · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Kapitan Moy Residence

    Kapitan Moy Building, also known as Cultural Center of Marikina situated in Marikina, Metro Manila, the Philippines, is the 200-year-old house of Don Laureano Guevarra, known as the founder of the Marikina shoe industry. Also known as Kapitan Moy, he served as capitan municipal in the former municipality.

    3.5 km · building in Marikina, Metro Manila, Philippines · Wikipedia

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Getting to Marikina Heights

Airports
Ninoy Aquino (MNL), 19 km · Clark / Clark Air Base (CRK), 84 km · Subic Bay / Naval Air Station Cubi Point (SFS), 92 km
  • Mabalacat → Marikina Heights
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · ₱225–300
  • Olongapo → Marikina Heights
    92 km · quickest by road, 3h 21m · ₱310–410
  • Legazpi → Marikina Heights
    329 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · ₱3,210–4,980
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Marikina Heights

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Marikina Heights. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe terminal beside the city's sportscenter serves jeepneys bound for Antipolo (town proper, Mambugan, Bagong Nayon and Paenaan near the city's border with Baras), San Mateo, Rodriguez, Pasig and Pateros.
  • Get inJeepneys from Fortune near the city's border with San Mateo, SSS.
  • Get aroundOther common modes of transport are the jeepney and taxi cabs.

From Wikivoyage: Marikina, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sabang and Puerto GaleraPH

    9 ways of moving, 47 sources

    127 km
  2. 02
    CoronPH

    12 ways of moving, 57 sources

    311 km
  3. 03
    El NidoPH

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    429 km
  4. 04
    Leyte IslandPH

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    589 km
  5. 05
    Tagbilaran and BoholPH

    12 ways of moving, 45 sources

    631 km

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