Salt Center In Metro Manila

Las Piñas City, once was a salt center

By: Rizza Ada Sameniano & Raven Mae Serdoncillo

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There's a lot of places here in the Philippines that can produce a salt and Las Piñas City is the salt center of Metro Manila.

During the Spanish colonial time, Las Piñas City served as a small fishing port. Las Piñas City then became known as the major center for salt making.

Salt Center of Metro Manila is located 3,000 square-meter in Barangay Pulang Lupa I.

In the 18th century, Salt production technology using sun oriented bed dryers was introduced to Las Piñas. Mud tiles were utilized to line the salt beds to keep the salt from coming into contact with the earthen ground. It allowed the created salt to become as white as a snow and build up the notoriety of Las Piñas as a salt-production center well into the 20th century.

A years ago, Las Piñero also used Iras Intsik or solar evaporation method to produce a salt and to achieve the superior quality in producing a salt. Las Piñas also has the fish port which is located at Bernabe Compound.

The increasing population then required affordable lodging, putting a pressure to change a once primary source of living into private subdivisions for more housing. And because of the expanding population, contamination from industrial and domestic sewerage draining into Manila Bay that damaged the unblemished waters which had been the salt industry's essential ingredient.

Fast urbanization then transformed this once essential source of living into a memory. As time passed by our country slowly destroying. So let's value our nature, love it as we love ourselves because it can supply the foods that we need. Let's love our country because there's a lot of places that can give us happiness. Don't use it in a non-sense things and don't abuse what we have right know.

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