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Payatas is an administrative division in eastern Metro Manila, the Philippines. It is an Urban area barangay located in the 2nd district of Quezon City adjacent to the barangays of Commonwealth, Batasan Hills and Bagong Silangan.
On July 4, 1974, pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 86 as amended Presidential Decree No. 86-A, portion of the community known as ZONE 108 – Commonwealth in Quezon City, which is not a barrio but, having sufficient population and definite jurisdiction, organized itself into a barangay known as Barangay No. 8 and elected an official who took their oath before Hon. Eduardo Soliman Jr.
On September 21, 1974, Presidential Decree No. 557 was promulgated, declaring among other things that in the case of Manila and other chartered cities with no barrios, all existing barangay therein created under Presidential Decree No. 86 as amended by Presidential Decree No. 86-A shall continue as barangays and adopt Republic Act No. 3590.
On June 22, 1975, Resolution No. 75-12 was passed by Barangay Zone 108 consolidating or merging all barangays within the Commonwealth area, including that of Barangay No. 8 (Payatas), resulting in the abolition of the corporate existence and personality of the latter.
In 1976, Barangay Captain Inocencio Deyro of the Barangay Commonwealth, constituted under Resolution No. 75-12 which was already null and void, called a meeting to take place on June 6, 1976. Among the items on the agenda is the appointment of Purok Leaders in Barangay No. 8 (Payatas), seeking to perform an act affecting Barangay No. 8 (Payatas) that is a defiance of the clarification order of the Hon. Judge Augusto L. Valencia. On October 14, Judge Jaime R. Agloro rendered his decision in Special Civil Case No. Q-21577, prohibiting that the respondents, Barangay Captain Inocencio Deyro and the Barangay Commonwealth, interfere with the powers, duties and functions of Barangay No. 8 (Payatas). Barangay No. 8, now called Payatas, was created with definite territorial jurisdiction as confirmed by Judge Augusto L. Valencia in his order dated March 5, 1976. Payatas is the only barangay to date that was created through judicial process.
Males outnumber females in the age group 0 to 54 years and females outnumber males in the age group 55 years old and over.
The main language is Tagalog. English is widely spoken. Waray, Ilonggo, Visaya, Bicol, Ilokano, Pangasinense and Kapampangan are secondary languages commonly used.
Christianity is dominant; most of the Christians are Roman Catholics. There are also a small number of Muslims, Iglesia ni Cristo, Protestants (El Shaddai, Shalom, Born Again, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, etc.) and Aglipays.
Most residents lives in semi-concrete homes, with those living near the dumpsite augmenting their houses or shanties with scavenged materials.
While a portion of the area has been developed into residential subdivisions (Don Carlos Heights, Manila Remnants, Doña Nicasia, Empire Subdivision, Capitol Homes II, Amlac Ville Subd., Violago Homes Parkwood Subd., Madrigal Subd., Manahan Subd., Fil-Invest II Mountain View, Villa Gracia Homes, etc.), vast stretches of land remain either underdeveloped or undeveloped because of poor access and lack of services. Many of those areas have evolved into squatter colonies. Areas may contain a mixture of housing sites, commercial and business centers, light industries, civic centers, educational areas and recreational parks.
Tricycles service all other parts of Payatas. There are four registered Tricycle Operators and Drivers Associations, with almost 1,000 units operating from Area A, Area B and Urban Lupang Pangako:
Some residents use their own vehicles.
Gravel Pit Road, originally part of the peripheral road of La Mesa Reservoir, now serves as the sole public road of Northern Payatas Area.
Proposed C-6 is a metro toll way facility that is expected to traverse the area. It is still under study as to its alignment by the PNCC as BOT Project of the DOTC.
Collector roads branch out from the primary roads extending the network into the inner areas. These are mostly Barangay main roads like the following:
The provision of utility services such as electricity, water, public transport and communication relies on the improvement and repairs of access roads.
Developed areas such as residential subdivisions have their own drainage network or man-made canals or pipe grids discharging into rivers and creeks.
Toilet facilities and individual septic tanks are mostly found in developed housing areas. In Area A, Payatas residents mostly employ water-scaled types of toilet facilities. In Lupang Pangako, and some in Area B, Payatas, 80% of the residents use open dumping for waste.
There is no area-wide sewer system for Payatas. Wastewater coming from squatter colonies is usually directly discharged on the ground.
There are approximately 2,000 scavengers and 50 junk shop owners who profit from the dump site.
Residents dispose their waste through the Xerox waste management program of the Barangay Government (Garbage Collection).
In 2023 the dumpsite was converted into an urban park for cycling.
The City rations the water daily in the areas of Lupang Pangako (Phase I, II, III and IV), where most of urban poor (approximately 5,000 families) reside. This is done under SMILE Project “OPLAN Paglilingap sa Payatas”.
Other sources of drinking water include private artesian wells and water peddlers.
Manila Water owns the East La Mesa treatment plant in the Payatas. The plant provides water to the Rizal province.
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