The coastal village encompasses the area from Don Galo on the north, Santo Niño (former Ibayo) and Moonwalk on the east and San Dionisio on the south.

It was also in 1580 when the mission of San Andrés el Apóstol (today the Cathedral of Saint Andrew) was completed under of Fray Diego de Espinar as its first head.

[3] Out of this settlement grew the visitas and towns of Don Galo, Tambo, San Dionisio, and Las Piñas in southern Manila Province, which was then transferred to the supervision of the Order of Augustinian Recollects.

[5] From being the second biggest barrio in Parañaque after San Dionisio in the early 20th century, La Huerta is now the second smallest barangay in the city at 0.5372 square kilometers (0.2074 sq mi) after several villages were created out of its old territory in the 1970s, including Don Bosco, Marcelo Green, Sun Valley and Merville.

The planned Manila Light Rail Transit System Line 1 extension to Cavite includes the construction of a station on Ninoy Aquino Avenue in La Huerta.