The city's name, Pasig, is a Tagalog word which means, "a river that flows into the sea" or "sandy bank of a river".
Etymologically, it is a word of Proto-Malayic (PM), *pasir, or Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (PMP) / Pr… See more

There are no surviving firsthand accounts of the history of Pasig before Spanish colonizers arrived in 1573 and established the settlement which they called the Ciudad-Municipal de Pasig.
However, s… See more

Pasig is bordered on the west by Quezon City and Mandaluyong; to the north by Marikina; to the south by Pateros and Taguig; and to the east by the municipalities of Cainta and Taytay in the province of Rizal. Pasig was … See more