J.P. Rizal Avenue

The road starts at Pateros Bridge, which connects Taguig and Pateros, as a continuation of Gen. B. Morcilla Street past the Taguig River. It meanders through the residential communities of barangays Comembo, West Rembo, East Rembo, and Cembo. The road continues past Kalayaan Avenue. The Circumferential Road 5 (C-5) then crosses above the avenue; one vehicle cannot go into C-5 directly from J.P. Rizal Avenue except when using Kalayaan Avenue as a conduit. It intersects with Lawton Avenue just past the University of Makati campus, which connects it to Bonifacio Global City nearby. The avenue enters Makati at Guadalupe Nuevo as it crosses the San Jose Creek past the Guadalupe ferry terminal.

Crossing under the Guadalupe Bridge of Epifanio de los Santos Avenue (EDSA), the road runs through Guadalupe Viejo and Rockwell Center. West of Estrella Street, it enters the Makati Población area, where the road gradually pulls away from the river at the Plaza Trece de Agosto (near the Makati Poblacion Park). It then comes to an intersection with P. Burgos Street and Makati Avenue, where it becomes one-way westbound traffic on daytime and early evening, covering rush hours, up to Pasong Tirad in Barangay Tejeros. Located in this section are the Makati City Hall and Circuit Makati, formerly the site of Santa Ana Race Track.^[2][3][4] The avenue then curves northwest past Pasong Tirad before coming to its western terminus at Zobel Roxas and Delpan Streets at the city's border with Manila, continuing as Tejeron Street.

The road is the old main road of Makati, once a municipality of the Province of Manila and later of Rizal. It also traversed a military reservation (now known as Fort Bonifacio) and the area that was previously part of Pateros. The first Municipal Building of Makati, the Presidencia, was also built along the road in 1918 at Plaza Trece de Agosto; it is now occupied today by the Museo ng Makati.^[5] The road was historically part of the Manila East Road and Calle Tejeron.^[6][7] Its segment from Malapad-na-bato (now East Rembo, the present-day location of Napindan Hydraulic Control System) westwards was also part of Route 21 or Highway 21 that linked Manila to Calamba, Laguna by circumscribing Laguna de Bay through Rizal, especially during the American colonial era.^{[8][9][10][11]} Its segment veering south approaching Pateros poblacion from Malapad-na-Bato was built in the first half of the 20th century.^[12][13]

• Casa Hacienda Park
• Circuit Makati (via Taliba and Zapote Streets)
  • Ayala Malls Circuit
  • Samsung Performing Arts Theater
• Comembo Public Market
• Fort Bonifacio High School
• Guadalupe BLISS
• Guadalupe Linear Park
• Guadalupe Viejo Cloverleaf Park
• Holy Cross Parish Makati
• Kennely Ann L. Binay Park (Guadalupe Nuevo Cloverleaf Park)
• Makati City Hall
• Makati Aqua Sports Arena
• Mater Dolorosa Parish
• Museo ng Makati
• Napindan Hydraulic Control Structure
• Olympia Market
• Poblacion Park
• Poblacion Sports Complex
• Puregold Makati
• Rockwell Center
  • Nestle Philippines Inc.
  • Power Plant Mall
  • Proscenium
• Taguig People's Park
• University of Makati

• Pasig River Expressway
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