Antipolo City Facts & Fgures 2004 ANTIPOLO HISTORY The City of Antipolo lies approximately 29.30 km. east of Manila and is bounded on the North by the ton of Montalban, on the north-west by the towns of Marikina and San Mateo, on the east by the Province of Quezon, on the southeast by the towns of Tanay and Teresa and on the southwest by the towns of Taytay an Cainta. It is about 10 km. north to south and about 20 km. from east to west. The City was named after a tree locally known as Tipolo (Autocarpus Incisa), which was in abundance in the area at that time. The early written account of the city’s history was recorded in 1578 by the Franciscan missionaries who came to Christianize the natives like the Dumagats. Early records referred to the natives as Tagal, Indians, and Blacks (the aetas). It is said that these missionaries built the church at Boso-boso. In 1591 the Jesuits replaced the Franciscans in Antipolo who organized the village into a parish. They built a chapel at Sitio Sta. Cruz. Among them were Fr. Pedro Chirino and Fr. Francisco Almarique. The same year, the first homily in Tagalog was delivered in a mass celebrated at what is now known as the “Pinagmisahan”. In those years, the virgin forest of Antipolo covered most of its mountain ranges with varied tropical trees and wild life. There ere many springs 1