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San Mateo's own history page preserves two competing origin accounts: one places discovery after 1571, while another dates its founding to 1596.
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San Mateo, Rizal
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Kevin's three weeks of manual work in the San Mateo highlands included bamboo fencing, garden boxes, handrails, brush clearing, digging and painting; the exact camp remains intentionally generalized.
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The municipality records a small church built beside the river in 1596.
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Fifteen stars on San Mateo's municipal seal represent its fifteen barangays.
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At the 2010 census nearest Kevin's visit, San Mateo counted 205,255 residents.
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San Mateo became part of the newly formed Province of Rizal under Act No. 137 in 1901.
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San Mateo has no rail station; the usual visitor pattern is LRT-2/MRT-3 to Cubao or LRT-2 toward Marikina, then a jeepney, modern jeep, UV Express or car.
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After being consolidated with Montalban in 1903, San Mateo regained separate municipal status through Executive Order No. 20 on February 29, 1908.
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The generalized San Mateo camp sat on a mountainside about 1.5 hours outside Manila; Kevin described its landscape as the most beautiful he had encountered on the journey.
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San Mateo's tourism office frames the municipality as a Metro Manila-edge escape for mountain biking, camping, swimming and resort stays.
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A representative traditional-jeepney minimum fare is about PHP 13 before distance increments; San Mateo–Cubao costs more than the minimum.
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