1601: Some 88 years after the arrival of Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan in the Visayas islands, the original lands constituting Muntinlupa could be deduced to have been friar lands administered by the Augustinians, then sold and assigned to the Sanctuary of Guadalupe.Based on the 1987 Philippine constitution, it is spelled as Muntinglupa, instead of Muntinlupa. There are three plausible origins of the name of the city: First, is its association with the thin topsoil in the area second, residents, purportedly replying to a question by Spaniards in the 16th century what the name of their place was, said вЂњMonte sa LupaвЂќ-apparently mistaking the question for what card game they were playing third, the topographical nature of the area, where the term Monte or mountain was expanded to Muntinlupa or mountain land. Muntinlupa is known as the location of the national insular penitentiary, the New Bilibid Prison, where the country's most dangerous criminals are incarcerated, as well as the location of Ayala Alabang Village, one of the country's biggest and most expensive residential communities, where many of the wealthy and famous live. It is given the nickname 'Emerald City' by the tourism establishment and also known as the 'Gateway to Calabarzon' as it is the southernmost city of the National Capital Region. Д¬lassified as a highly urbanized city, it is bordered on the north by Taguig to the northwest by ParaГ±aque by Las PiГ±as to the west to the southwest by DasmariГ±as by San Pedro and Laguna de Bay to the east, the largest lake in the country. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 543,445 people. Muntinlupa, officially the City of Muntinlupa ( Tagalog: Lungsod ng Muntinlupa), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines.

Alabang hills village map