Barangay Pembo, Makati City

INTRODUCTION

 

Barangay Pembo is part of the Second District of Makati. It belongs to the Cluster 5 or the Eastside Cluster along with Comembo, East Rembo and Rizal. The War Tunnel at Morning Glory Street is considered as a heritage site in the Barangay Pembo which is connected to the Fort Bonifacio War Tunnel.  Also, Barangay Pembo accommodates the Ospital ng Makati as its well-known landmark.

 

Pembo is a residential and commercial area and is second to the largest in the district in terms of population. Based on the 2010 Census of Population conducted by the National Statistics Office, Pembo has a total of 44,803 population and percentage share of 2.34% versus the city’s population with an estimate of at least 8,961 households. By population density on the other hand, considering  its land area and population count, the barangay has 70 per 1,000 square meters.

 

HISTORY

PEMBO was a military reservation and home of the elite AFP crack unit, the First Ranger code-named "PANTHERS". The literal meaning of the word PEMBO is PANTHERS ENLISTED MEN'S BARRIO. At first, only military personnel and their dependents were allowed to reside in the barrio. However, as the year went by more and more military dependents increased together with their civilian relatives and friends and reportedly sucked in unnoticed, in search of homes in the barrio.

 

On January 7, 1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation No. 2475 awaiting this portion of the military reservation lots to the actual occupants and called the area as Barangay Pembo. The said proclamation was amended to Proclamation No. 518 on January 31, 1990, limiting the disposition of these lots to bonafide occupants only who were residing in the proclaimed area on or before January 7,1986, to 50 square meters minimum and 300 square meters maximum per lot.

 

Barangay Pembo is so big, even bigger in land area than its neighboring Municipality of Pateros and had a land area of 123 hectares and a population of 65,000 inhabitants based on the 1995 population survey. As a result, in February 1996 City Ordinance No. 96-010, an ordinance creating a new barangay Barangay Rizal, part of Barangay Pembo, principally authored by Councilor Astolfo C. Pimentel and co-authored by the late Vice Mayor Arturo S. Yabut and all members of the Sangguniang Panglunsod ng Makati, the ordinance was enacted and approved.

 

Currently, the barangay has 14 sitios covering an area of 61 hectares and approximately has a total population of 38,332. The barangay accommodates the newly-built and transferred 6-storey Ospital ng Makati to provide the Makati residents with the highest quality and state of the art health facilities and health care services.