'thin at the top'), which describes the soil located in the upper part of Tullahan River, unsuitable for planting rice.

[3] Payatas was part of San Mateo, Rizal until it was ceded to Quezon City in 1949.

557[7] was promulgated, declaring among other things that in the case of Manila and other chartered cities with no barrios, all existing barangay therein created under Presidential Decree No.

On October 14, Judge Jaime R. Agloro rendered his decision in Special Civil Case No.

8, now called Payatas, was created with definite territorial jurisdiction as confirmed by Judge Augusto L. Valencia in his order dated March 5, 1976.

[8] Most of the residents fall below the poverty level, living under harsh conditions in depressed areas.

They include Ilokanos, Pangasinan, Novo Ecijanos, Tagalogs, Kapampangan and a small percentage of Ibanags, Itawis and members of Igorot tribes.

There are also migrants from Southern-Tagalog parts: Bicolanos, Visayas, Mindanao Region and a small percentage of Muslims.

Waray, Ilonggo, Visaya, Bicol, Ilokano, Pangasinense and Kapampangan are secondary languages commonly used.

There are also a small number of Muslims, Iglesia ni Cristo, Protestants (El Shaddai, Shalom, Born Again, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, etc.)

), vast stretches of land remain either underdeveloped or undeveloped because of poor access and lack of services.

Jeepneys serve as public transport in the northern areas via Gravel Pit Road plying either Lupang Pangako or Montalban.

There is only one existing jeepney Operators and Drivers Association, which is the Lupang Pangako JODA office.

Developed areas such as residential subdivisions have their own drainage network or man-made canals or pipe grids discharging into rivers and creeks.

Toilet facilities and individual septic tanks are mostly found in developed housing areas.

A landslide in the area led to the national legislation that banned open-ground dump sites in the Philippines.

The City rations the water daily in the areas of Lupang Pangako (Phase I, II, III and IV), where most of urban poor (approximately 5,000 families) reside.

Manila Water owns the East La Mesa treatment plant in the Payatas.