Binondo – Manila area, inhabited mainly by Chinese. Here is the Manila Chinatown is the oldest in the world, established in 1594. Historically, Binondo was the territory in which the Spaniards were allowed to settle neophyte Christians among Chinese immigrants, their wives and descendants of the métis. Similarly, Parian, the area near the historic district of Intramuros, was the place where the Spaniards settled by Chinese immigrants, adopted the Christian faith. And the name "Binondo" is derived from the Filipino word "Boondock", which means "the boondocks".

Located across from the Intramuros Bank of the river Pasig, Binondo is a typical example of a small Chinese city. Residents of Manila call it Chinatown. This area is a center of Commerce and trade, which are natives of China. Interestingly, even before the appearance in these places of the Spaniards in 1521, Binondo was already kind of the "heart" of Chinese trade in the Pacific region.

Binondo is also considered a historic métis centre Sangli – descendants of the Chinese and the indigenous people of the Philippines and their culture. This breed was Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino Saint, canonized by the Catholic Church. His name are the size and the binondo Church, also known as Minor Basilica. Lorenzo Ruiz. Another Sangli Reverend mother of ignacia del Espiritu Santo founded in the Philippines in the Community of the Faithful of the virgin Mary.

In 1603 in Binondo happened the Chinese revolt, led by Juan Santa, rich Chinese who accepted Catholicism. It began immediately after the visit to Manila three official Chinese officials, who said they were going to look for gold deposits. Such a strange goal of the delegation gave the Spaniards the idea of a possible imminent invasion from China. In those years the Chinese population of Manila greatly outnumbered the Spanish, and the Spaniards feared that, in case of invasion, the Chinese will make it over to their side. The uprising was brutally suppressed by the army of the Spaniards under the leadership of Luis pérez Dasmariñas. Subsequently, most of the 20 thousand Chinese rebels were killed.

During the short British occupation of Manila from 1762 to 1764 years Binondo repeatedly subjected to heavy shelling, which destroyed a number of historic buildings.

Before World war II, Binondo was the center of banking and financial transactions, it housed the offices of insurance companies, commercial banks and other financial institutions from Britain and the United States. Banks were on the so-called "Philippine wall street" - the street of Escolta. And after the war, major corporations began to move into the new district of Manila and Makati. Today the earth is in Binondo is considered one of the most expensive in the country.