Barangay San Isidro, Makati City

INTRODUCTION

Barangay San Isidro is one of the seven (7) barangays comprising the Westside Cluster or Cluster 2. It has a land area of 0.4829 square kilometers which is 1.8% of the City’s total land area. Based on the 2010 census of population released by the National Statistics Office, San Isidro has a percentage share of 1.4% or 7,589 versus the City’s population with a density of 16 persons per 1,000 square meters. This barangay is predominantly a residential area.

 

San Isidro is bounded by Barangay Palanan in the north, Pasay City and Barangay Pio del Pilar in the south, Pio del Pilar in the east, and Pasay City in the west.

 

Recognized structures located in the barangay includes St. Mary of the Woods School, SM Hypermarket, Fire Sub Station, Police Station Precinct 4, and Holy Family Parish Church among others.

 

HISTORY

Barangay San Isidro in the late forties was then a sitio of Barrio Del Pilar. There were only feeders road then and the means of transportation found around the place were calesas and pedicabs going to and from Pasay and the neighboring Barrios. Standing in one corner of any street you can see the whole of Barrio Palanan, Pio del Pilar and Pasay as there were only a few houses. In the early 60's with the population and business establishment growing like mushrooms, the Barrio Council passed a Resolution requesting the Municipal Government to convert San Isidro into a regular Barrio and such Resolution was approved the following year, thus the birth of Barrio San Isidro, which is at present one of the most progressive and developed Barrio known as Barangay San Isidro.