Pateros, Metro Manila

Pateros, officially the Municipality of Pateros, is a first-class municipality in Metro Manila, Philippines. According to the, it has a population of.This small town is famous for its duck-raising industry and especially for producing balut, a Filipino delicacy that is boiled, fertilised duck egg. Pateros is also known for the production of red salty eggs and "inutak", a local rice cake. Moreover, the town is known for manufacturing of "alfombra", a locally-made footwear with a carpet-like fabric on its top surface. Pateros is bordered by Pasig City to the north, Makati City to the west, and Taguig City to the south.Pateros is the only municipality and the smallest, both in population and in land area, in Metro Manila, but it is the second most densely populated at around 29 thousand people per square kilometer after Manila.It is the smallest municipality in terms of land area in the Philippines.EtymologyThe name Pateros most likely derived from the duck-raising industry. The Tagalog loanword (of Spanish origin) for "duck" is pato and pateros means "duck-raisers". The early 19th-century U.S. diplomat Edmund Roberts used Duck-town, another name for Pateros, stating that he "never before saw so many ducks together" in one place.Another, lesser-known theory is that the name may allude to the town's small shoemaking industry. The Tagalog word for "shoe"—also of Spanish origin—is sapatos, and shoemakers are called sapateros.