Its western border follows the South Luzon Expressway, thus separating it from Merville, Sun Valley, Don Bosco and Marcelo Green.

[2][3] Until the late 19th century, the village was a no man's land in the middle of a vast friar hacienda owned by the Order of Saint Augustine containing rice paddies and swamps between Parañaque (as La Huerta, San Dionisio and Don Galo were then called) and Bicutan.

In 1901, when Ibayo was reorganized as a barrio now known as Santo Niño, Mount Mani as the area was then called became one of its four sitios, along with Libro Balagbag (now part of Pasay), Dilain and Mataas na Kahoy.

[4] Subsequent development of the former friar estate as a U.S. airfield and military reservation and construction of the railroad line passing through this sitio towards the Bicol Region in the 1930s paved the way for the village's initial growth.

With the destruction of Manila by the end of World War II came the mass exodus to the neighboring towns and the development of gated communities across the region, among them the United Parañaque Subdivision.

By the late 1960s, the village became more accessible with the opening of the South Superhighway to Alabang, bringing with it new commercial and industrial enterprises, including the Greater Manila Terminal Food Market and the Philippine American Embroideries plant.