He also served as the provisional chairman for the Katipunan. He was regarded as a member of the Katipunan triumvirate that started the Philippine Revolution against Spanish colonial authorities in 1896. The name Valenzuela is also the surname of Pío Valenzuela, a Tagalog physician and was one of the leaders of Katipunan. In Spanish, Valenzuela is a diminutive form of Valencia which means 'little Valencia'. A former agricultural rural area, Valenzuela has grown into a major economic and industrial center of the Philippines when a large number of industries relocated to the central parts of the city. Owing to the cross migration of people across the country and its location as the northernmost point of Metro Manila, Valenzuela has developed into a multicultural metropolis. The modern-day Valenzuela with its borders was chartered in 1998. The split was revoked by President Diosdado Macapagal in 1963 after political disagreements and the new merged town was named Valenzuela. Garcia ordered the split of Polo's southern barangays to form another town named as Valenzuela. The Battle of Malinta of the Philippine–American War was fought in Polo in 1899. The city, as a town, was originally called as Polo, initially formed in 1621 after separation from Meycauayan, Bulacan. Valenzuela was named after Pío Valenzuela, a physician and a member of the Katipunan, a secret society founded against the colonial government of Spain.

It has a total land area of 45.75 square kilometers, where its residents are composed of about 72% Tagalog people followed by 5% Bicolanos with a small percentage of foreign nationals. Valenzuela shares border and access to Tenejeros-Tullahan River with Malabon. A landlocked chartered city located on the island of Luzon, it is bordered by the province of Bulacan, and cities of Caloocan, Malabon and Quezon City. 71 as a highly urbanized, first-class city based on income classification and number of population. Valenzuela is categorized under Republic Act Nos. It is the 119th largest city in the country located at about 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) north of the capital city of Manila.

According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 620,422 people, making it as the 13th most populous city in the Philippines. Valenzuela, / ˌ v ɒ l ə n zj u ˈ ɛ l ə/, Tagalog:, officially the City of Valenzuela, (Tagalog: Lungsod ng Valenzuela), or simply known as Valenzuela City, is a 1st class highly urbanized city in Metro Manila, Philippines.

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