Aguinaldo Highway

The Emilio Aguinaldo Highway,[1] (often shortened as Aguinaldo Highway), formerly referred to as Cavite–Batangas Road and Manila West Road, is a four-to-six lane, 41.4-kilometer (25.7 mi), network of primary and secondary highways passing through the busiest towns and cities of Cavite, Philippines.[2][3][4][5] It is the busiest and most congested of the three major highways located in the province, the others are Juanito Remulla Sr. Road (Governor's Drive) and Antero Soriano Highway.

R-2 Aguinaldo Highway
Cavite–Batangas Road Manila West Road Silang Diversion Road
Aguinaldo Highway highlighted in red
Aguinaldo Highway looking south towards Tagaytay Rotonda in Tagaytay
Route information
Maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways
Length	41.4 km (25.7 mi)
Component highways	R-2 R-2 N62 from Las Piñas to Bacoor N419 from Bacoor to Dasmariñas N410 from Silang to Tagaytay
Major junctions
North end	N411 (Alabang–Zapote Road) in Las Piñas
	N62 (Aguinaldo Boulevard) in Bacoor N62 (Tirona Highway) in Bacoor N65 (Governor's Drive) in Dasmariñas
South end	N410 (Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway) / N421 (Tagaytay–Calamba Road) in Tagaytay
Location
Provinces	Metro Manila, Cavite
Major cities	Las Piñas, Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, Tagaytay
Towns	Silang
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways Expressways List

The highway is named in the honor of General Emilio Aguinaldo, the country's first president.

The poblacion segment in Silang, part of N410

The northern terminus of the highway is located at Las Piñas in Metro Manila. It then travels along Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, Silang, and then ends at Tagaytay in Cavite. The highway forms part of National Routes 62, 419, and 410 of the Philippine highway network. The highway has several official names, like Manila–Cavite Road and Cavite–Batangas Road. The west alignment of the poblacion area of Silang, is unnumbered as a newer bypass named Silang Bypass Road (or Silang Diversion Road), designated as a tertiary road. The section that connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway (then Coastal Road), called the Aguinaldo Boulevard is also designated as National Route 62 (N62) of the Philippine highway network.

Route description

Aguinaldo Highway looking south towards Nueno Avenue in Imus.

Aguinaldo Highway passes through many establishments such as malls, shops, and government offices. Various high voltage power lines, most notably the Dasmariñas-Las Piñas transmission line of National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), utilize the highway right of way from its intersection with Aguinaldo Boulevard and Bacoor Boulevard to Barangay San Agustin 2, Dasmariñas for accessibility to work vehicles and also due to scarcity of land for dedicated right of way.

Originally a four-lane, it starts as a continuation of Diego Cera Avenue at Zapote Bridge. It crosses and becomes a six-lane road past Bacoor Boulevard which leads to Molino, Bacoor, and Aguinaldo Boulevard, which connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway. It then intersects with Tirona Highway that leads to Kawit and Cavite City. It then passes Imus and enters Dasmarinas, where it reduces to a four-lane road and becoming a divided highway in most portions. Afterwards, it then intersects with Juanito Remulla Sr. Road (Governor's Drive) at Pala-Pala, Dasmariñas.

Past Pala-Pala, it begins its climb to Tagaytay, passing Silang, and then ends in Tagaytay rotunda. The highway continues as Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway as it passes the rest Tagaytay and Alfonso in Cavite before entering the province of Batangas.

History

The present road originated from an old road that enters Cavite from Las Piñas. The old roads that predated the Aguinaldo Highway used a different alignment on Bacoor and Imus, that exist until today as a mixture of city-maintained roads and national roads. Portions of the road have been sites of battles of the Philippine Revolution.

During the American colonial era, the road reached as far as Silang, until an extension to Tagaytay was opened. The old roads that passed on the western barangays of Bacoor and Imus are bypassed by a new alignment that existed until today. The road was designated Highway 17 and named Manila West Road, that reached as far as the municipality of Batangas (present-day Batangas City).

Intersections

Aguinaldo Highway in Dasmariñas

Intersections are numbered by kilometer posts, with Rizal Park in Manila designated as kilometer zero. 

Region	Province	City/Municipality	km[6]	mi	Destinations	Notes
Metro Manila	Las Piñas		14.793	9.192	N411 (Alabang–Zapote Road) – Las Piñas	Northern terminus. Continues north as N62 (Diego Cera Avenue).
Metro Manila–Calabarzon boundary	Las Piñas–Cavite boundary	Las Piñas–Bacoor boundary	14.846	9.225	Zapote Bridge over Zapote River Las Piñas-Muntinlupa District Engineering Office–Cavite Sub District Engineering Office highway boundary
Calabarzon	Cavite	Bacoor			A. Evangelista Street / Molino Road
					N62 (Aguinaldo Boulevard) / Bacoor Boulevard	Traffic light intersection
			17.456	10.847	N62 (Tirona Highway) – Kawit	Traffic light intersection. Route number change from N62 to N419.
		Bacoor–Imus boundary	18.943	11.771	Cavite Sub District Engineering Office–Cavite 1st District Engineering Office highway boundary
		Imus	20.050	12.458	Imus Bridge over Imus River
					Buhay na Tubig Road	Traffic light intersection
					Palico Daanan Road
					Nueno Avenue
					Patindig Araw Road
					Daang Hari / Open Canal Road	At-grade interchange; traffic light intersection
		Imus–Dasmariñas boundary	26.998	16.776	Cavite 1st District Engineering Office–Cavite Sub District Engineering Office highway boundary
		Dasmariñas			Salitran Road
					Congressional Road	Traffic light intersection. Serves De La Salle University - Dasmariñas Campus.
					Don Placido Campos Avenue
					Ramon Tirona Avenue
					N65 (Governor's Drive) – Trece Martires, Biñan	Traffic light intersection
					N65 (Palapala Road)	Traffic light intersection
		Dasmariñas–Silang boundary	38.985	24.224	Route number change from N419 to N410
		Silang			Cavite–Laguna Expressway	Future Silang West Interchange under construction
					N410 (J.P. Rizal Street)	Change from N410 to unnumbered route
					Silang–Banaybanay Road	Traffic light intersection
					N410 (J.P. Rizal Street)	Changed from unnumbered route to N410
					Buho–Amadeo Road
		Silang–Tagaytay boundary	53.763	33.407	Cavite Sub District Engineering Office–Cavite 2nd District Engineering Office highway boundary
		Tagaytay	56.894	35.352	N410 (Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway) / N421 (Tagaytay–Calamba Road) / Tagaytay–Talisay Road	Roundabout. Southern Terminus.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Route transition       Unopened

References

1. "Emilio Aguinaldo Highway". bacoor.gov.ph. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
2. "Las Piñas-Munti". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Archived from the original on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
3. "Cavite Sub". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Archived from the original on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
4. "Cavite 2nd". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Archived from the original on January 8, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
5. "Cavite". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Archived from the original on January 9, 2018. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
6. "Road and Bridge Inventory". www.dpwh.gov.ph. Retrieved 2018-01-20.

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