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The Pasig River is a river that passes through the capital of the Philippines, Manila. It is named after the city Pasig. It has a drainage basin that is bigger than 4,000 square kilometers, but is only 25 kilometers long. It is very polluted.

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  • Jones-Bridge-skyview-with-Post-Office-1930s

    Jones Bridge crossing the Pasig River from Ermita to Binondo in the 1930s

  • Vista del Puente de Manila (1847)

    1847 painting by José Honorato Lozano showing a casco barge and sampans traversing the Puente de España bridge (replaced by the Jones Bridge)

  • Barges, steamers, and sailing vessels on the Pasig River in Manila (c.1917)

    Casco barges, steamers, and other sailing vessels in Pasig in 1917

  • River Gunboat Laguna de Bay, 1899

    The Laguna de Bay was a Pasig River steamer operated by a Spanish company, and was a type of vessel immortalized in José Rizal's novels. It is shown here after its conversion into an American gunboat. The modification of civilian vessels for war by fitting artillery pieces had previously been practiced by the Philippine and Spanish navies. The modern counterparts of the Pasig steamers are the Pasig water buses.

  • View of the Pasig River in Luzon Island, Philippine Islands, 1826-1829

    View of Pasig River in 1826-1829

  • Pasig River bend 1899

    The Pasig River in 1899

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    Pasig River near Quiapo.

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    View from Fort Santiago.

  • PH-MM-makati-pasig river-guadalupe - eastbound (2014) 01

    View from Guadalupe Bridge.

  • Manila Philippines The-old-Post-Office-Building-01

    Pasig River with the Old Post Office Building

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