Aguinaldo Highway

Major highway in Cavite, Philippines

For the highway in western Tagaytay also known as Aguinaldo Highway, see Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway.

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Aguinaldo Highway

Cavite–Batangas Road
Cavite-Manila South Road

Aguinaldo Highway highlighted in red

Aguinaldo Highway looking south towards Tagaytay Rotonda in Tagaytay

Route information
Maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways
Length| 41.4 km (25.7 mi)
Component
highways|

* R-2 R-2
* N62 in Bacoor
* N419 from Bacoor to Dasmariñas
* N410 in Silang and Tagaytay

Major junctions
North end| Zapote Bridge at Las Piñas–Bacoor boundary
Major intersections|

* N62 (Aguinaldo Boulevard) in Bacoor
* N62 (Tirona Highway) in Bacoor
* N65 (Governor's Drive) in Dasmariñas
* E3 (Cavite–Laguna Expressway)

South end|  N410 (Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway) / N421 (Tagaytay–Calamba Road) / Tagaytay–Talisay Road in Tagaytay
Location
Country| Philippines
Provinces| Cavite
Major cities| Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, Tagaytay
Towns| Silang
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The Emilio Aguinaldo Highway,[1] (often shortened as Aguinaldo Highway), alternatively known as Cavite–Batangas Road and Cavite-Manila South Road, is a four-to-six lane, 41.4-kilometer (25.7 mi), network of primary and secondary highways passing through the busiest towns and cities of Cavite, Philippines.[2][3][4][5] It is the busiest and most congested of the three major highways located in the province, the others are Governor's Drive and Antero Soriano Highway.

The highway is named in the honor of General Emilio Aguinaldo, the country's first president and a native of Cavite.

The northern terminus of the highway is located at the Zapote Bridge at the province's boundary with Las Piñas in Metro Manila. It then traverses Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, Silang, and ends at Tagaytay in Cavite. The highway forms part of National Routes 62, 419, and 410 of the Philippine highway network. The highway has several official names, like Manila–Cavite South Road, Cavite–Batangas Road, and Tagaytay-Manila via Silang Road. The west alignment of the poblacion area of Silang, is unnumbered as a newer bypass named Silang Bypass Road (or Silang Diversion Road) and is designated as a tertiary road. The section that connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway (then Coastal Road), called the Aguinaldo Boulevard, is also designated as National Route 62 (N62) of the Philippine highway network.

## Route description

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Aguinaldo Highway looking south towards Nueno Avenue in Imus.

Aguinaldo Highway passes through many establishments such as malls, shops, and government offices. Various high voltage power lines, most notably the Dasmariñas-Las Piñas transmission line of National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), utilize the highway right of way from its intersection with Aguinaldo Boulevard and Bacoor Boulevard to Barangay San Agustin II, Dasmariñas for accessibility to work vehicles and also due to scarcity of land for the acquisition of right of way and lands where the steel poles stand.

Originally with four lanes, it starts as a continuation of Diego Cera Avenue at Zapote Bridge. It crosses and becomes a six-lane road past Bacoor Boulevard which leads to Molino, Bacoor, and Aguinaldo Boulevard, which connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway. It then intersects with Tirona Highway that leads to Kawit and Cavite City. It then passes Imus and enters Dasmariñas, where it reduces to a four-lane road and becoming a divided highway in most portions. Afterwards, it then intersects with Governor's Drive and Pala-Pala Road in Dasmariñas.

Past Pala-Pala Road, it begins its climb to Tagaytay, passing Silang and ends at Tagaytay Rotonda. The highway continues as Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway as it passes the rest of Tagaytay and Alfonso in Cavite before entering the province of Batangas.

## History

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The present road originated from an old road that enters Cavite from Las Piñas. The old roads that predated the Aguinaldo Highway used a different alignment on Bacoor and Imus, that exist until today as a mixture of city-maintained roads and national roads. Portions of the road have been sites of battles of the Philippine Revolution.

During the American colonial era, the road reached as far as Silang. From 1933 to 1935, the section of the highway from Silang to Tagaytay was constructed using prisoners as construction workers. In 1938, the highway was made into concrete by President Manuel L. Quezon.[6] The old roads that passed on the western barangays of Bacoor and Imus are bypassed by a new alignment that existed until today. The road formed part of Highway 17 that linked Imus with Batangas.[7][8][9] It was also part of the Cavite-Manila South Road, which was renamed to Mexico Road in 1964, the year designated as "The Year of Philippine-Mexican Friendship."[10][11]

On May 27, 1998, the traffic jam happened in southern side of the highway. It was caused by National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR/NPC) transmission line construction of the billion peso Dasmariñas–Las Piñas Transmission Line, with the line finished construction on July 15, 1999.

## Intersections

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Aguinaldo Highway, alternately and unofficially Aguinaldo Boulevard, in Dasmariñas

The entire route is located in Cavite. Intersections are numbered by kilometer posts, with Rizal Park in Manila designated as kilometer zero.

City/Municipality| km[12]| mi| Destinations| Notes

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Las Piñas–Bacoor boundary| 14.846| 9.225| Zapote Bridge over Zapote River
Las Piñas-Muntinlupa District Engineering Office–Cavite Sub District Engineering Office highway boundary
Bacoor| | |  N62 (Aguinaldo Boulevard) / Bacoor Boulevard – Paliparan, Dasmariñas| Traffic light intersection
17.456| 10.847|  N62 (Tirona Highway) – Kawit| Traffic light intersection. Route number change from N62 to N419.
Bacoor–Imus boundary| 18.943| 11.771| Cavite Sub District Engineering Office–Cavite 1st District Engineering Office highway boundary
Imus| | | NOMO Avenue (Imus-Bacoor Diversion Road)|
| | Buhay na Tubig Road| Traffic light intersection
| | Palico Daanan Road|
20.050| 12.458| Imus Bridge over Imus River
| | Nueno Avenue| Traffic light intersection
| | Patindig Araw Road|
| | NIA Road|
| | Daang Hari / Open Canal Road| At-grade interchange; traffic light intersection
Imus–Dasmariñas boundary| 26.998| 16.776| Cavite 1st District Engineering Office–Cavite Sub District Engineering Office highway boundary
Dasmariñas| | | J.T. Paterno Boulevard – Imus| Southbound access only
| | Jose Abad Santos Avenue (Salitran Road)| Traffic light intersection
| | Guevarra Street| Traffic light intersection
| | Camerino Avenue| Traffic light intersection
| | Congressional Avenue| Traffic light intersection. Serves De La Salle University - Dasmariñas Campus.
| | Central Market Avenue| Traffic light intersection
| | Don Placido Campos Avenue| Unsignalized intersection
| | Ramon Tirona Avenue|
| |  N65 (Juanito Remulla Avenue/ Governor's Drive) – Trece Martires, Biñan| Traffic light intersection
| |  N65 (Pala-Pala Road)| Traffic light intersection
| | UTS Boulevard| Traffic light intersection
Dasmariñas–Silang boundary| 38.985| 24.224| Route number change from N419 to N410
Silang| | |  E3 (CALAX)| Silang (Aguinaldo) Exit of CALAX
| |  N410 (J.P. Rizal Street)| Change from N410 to unnumbered route
| | Silang–Banaybanay Road| Traffic light intersection
| |  N410 (J.P. Rizal Street)| Changed from unnumbered route to N410
| | East–West Lateral Road|
| | Buho–Amadeo Road|
Silang–Tagaytay boundary| 53.763| 33.407| Cavite Sub District Engineering Office–Cavite 2nd District Engineering Office highway boundary
Tagaytay| | | Tagaytay Bypass Road|
56.894| 35.352|  N410 (Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway) / N421 (Tagaytay–Calamba Road) / Tagaytay–Talisay Road| Roundabout. Southern Terminus.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

* Incomplete access
* Route transition

## References

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1. ^ "Emilio Aguinaldo Highway". bacoor.gov.ph. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
2. ^ "Las Piñas-Munti". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Archived from the original on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
3. ^ "Cavite Sub". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Archived from the original on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
4. ^ "Cavite 2nd". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Archived from the original on January 8, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
5. ^ "Cavite". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Archived from the original on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
6. ^ "History". Silang, Cavite. Retrieved May 4, 2021.
7. ^ Southern Luzon Western Sheet (Map). 1:200000. Washington D.C.: US Geodetic Survey. 1941.
8. ^ 1944 Army Map Service Road Map of Northern Luzon, Philippines (Map) (1-AMS ed.). 1:1000000. Washington D.C.: Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers. 1944. Retrieved September 5, 2021.
9. ^ ND 51-5 Manila (Map). 1:250,000. Washington D.C.: Army Map Service, Corps of Engineers. 1954. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
10. ^ Presidential Decree No. 320 (1964), Naming the Cavite-Manila South Road as Mexico Road, retrieved May 11, 2021
11. ^ "Rebirth of Taft Avenue". Manila Bulletin. January 26, 2013. Archived from the original on May 25, 2022. Retrieved May 4, 2021 - via Yahoo! News.
12. ^ "Road and Bridge Inventory". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Retrieved January 20, 2018.

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See also: Philippine expressway network

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Major roads in Cavite

Expressways|

| Existing|

* E2/AH26
* South Luzon Expressway
* E3
* Manila–Cavite Expressway

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Proposed/under construction|

* C-6 Expressway
* Cavite–Laguna Expressway (CALAEx)
* Cavite–Tagaytay–Batangas Expressway (CTBEx)

National roads|

| Primary|

* N62
* Aguinaldo Highway (Bacoor segment)
* Aguinaldo Boulevard
* Tirona Highway
* Magdiwang Highway
* M. Salud Road
* Manila–Cavite Road
* N64
* Antero Soriano Highway
* Tanza–Trece Martires Road
* Tanza Diversion Road
* N65
* Governor's Drive (Trece Martires to Carmona segment)
* Pala-Pala Road
* Loyola Street

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Secondary|

* N401
* Marseilla Street
* General Trias Drive
* N402
* Antero Soriano Highway (Naic to Tanza Segment)
* Sabang Road
* J. Poblete Street
* Capt. C. Nazareno Street
* Naic–Indang Road
* Indang–Mendez Road
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* N403
* Governor's Drive (Naic to Trece Martires segment)
* N404
* Trece Martires–Indang Road
* N405
* Governor's Drive (Ternate to Naic segment)
* Caylabne Road
* N406
* Maragondon–Magallanes–Amuyong Road
* N407
* Ternate–Nasugbu Road
* N410
* Aguinaldo Highway (Silang to Tagaytay segment)
* J.P. Rizal Street
* Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway
* N411
* Alabang–Zapote Road
* N413
* Mahogany Avenue
* N419
* Aguinaldo Highway (Bacoor to Dasmariñas segment)
* N420
* Santa Rosa–Tagaytay Road
* N421
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* Ligaya Drive
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* South Dock Jct-Airfield
* South Dock Topside Diversion Road
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* Tagaytay-Taal Lake Road

Arterial Routes|

* Daang Hari Road/Open Canal Road

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