Pablo Ocampo Street

Pablo Ocampo Street
Ocampo Street; Vito Cruz Street
	The street in Malate, Manila
Former name(s)	Vito Cruz Street;
Namesake	Pablo Ocampo; Hermógenes Vito-Cruz (formerly);
Maintained by	Department of Public Works and Highways
Length	3.448 km (2.142 mi); includes extension in Makati
West end	AH 26 (N120) (Roxas Boulevard) in Malate, Manila
Major; junctions	N170 (Taft Avenue); N145 (Osmeña Highway);
East end	South Avenue in Makati

Pablo Ocampo Street, also known simply as Ocampo Street and formerly and still referred to as Vito Cruz Street, is an inner-city main road in Manila, Philippines. It runs west–east for about 3.448 kilometers (2.142 mi), connecting the southern districts of Malate and San Andres southeast to the adjacent city of Makati.

Etymology

Since 1989, the street has been named in honor of the Filipino statesman and lawyer Pablo Ocampo, who served as a resident commissioner of the Philippines, assemblyman, and vice mayor of Manila.^[2]^[3]

The street is previously called Vito Cruz Street after Hermógenes Vito Cruz, the 19th-century mayor of Pineda (present-day Pasay). Its section in south central Malate was known as Calle Lico (after the area of the same name) and Calle Connor, respectively, when it was then a short street in the district before extending towards the Manila South Cemetery.^[4]^[5]

Route description

The Manila section runs from the intersection of Roxas Boulevard and Pedro Bukaneg Street, near the Cultural Center of the Philippines. It heads east through the city's southern limits in Malate district. It crosses Harrison Avenue, Adriatico Street, and Taft Avenue, passing beneath LRT Line 1. From there, it continues another kilometer past the Singalong area and southwestern San Andres district toward Osmeña Highway. Upon entering Makati east of Osmeña Highway, the road turns east at Kamagong Street, where it becomes Ocampo Street Extension or Vito Cruz Street Extension. It passes through barangays La Paz, San Antonio, and Santa Cruz in northwestern Makati until it meets its eastern terminus at South Avenue, west of the Manila South Cemetery. The street carries two-way traffic, except for its section from Taft to Arellano Avenues, which carries one-way eastbound traffic and from Arellano Avenue to Chino Roces Avenue, which carries one-way westbound traffic.

Intersections

Province	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Makati			South Avenue	Traffic light intersection, northern terminus
			Kakarong Street	One-way road to Vito Cruz
			Zapote Street	Traffic light intersection
	0.6	0.37	Chino Roces Avenue	Traffic light intersection, road becomes one-way southbound.
			Sampaloc / Flordeliz Street
			ABC Street	Access to Rafael Palma Elementary School
Manila	0.5	0.31	Zobel Roxas Street / Agata Street	Traffic light intersection, Agata Street is one-way towards San Andres Street
			N145 (Osmeña Highway) R-3	Traffic light intersection
			Alejo Aquino Street	One-way road
			Dian Street
			Bautista Street
			Arellano Street	Street becomes one-way road northbound.
			Muñoz Street / Tramo Street	Traffic light intersection
			Leon Guinto Street	Northbound entrance
			N170 (Taft Avenue) R-2	Traffic light intersection, street becomes two-way
			Donada Street	Northbound entrance
			Leveriza Street	Northbound exit
			Adriatico Street	Traffic light intersection
			Mabini Street / Harrison Street	Traffic light intersection.
			N61 (Roxas Boulevard) R-1	Traffic light intersection and eastern terminus. Continues southward into CCP Complex as Bukaneg Street.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi Concurrency terminus Incomplete access

Landmarks

Pablo Ocampo Street is the site of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex, with the art deco-style Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium fronting the intersection with Adriatico Street and the Rizal Memorial Coliseum just behind it. On the opposite corner of Adriatico are Century Park Hotel and Harrison Plaza, one of Manila's first modern shopping centers. Across the street from the plaza is the Embassy of Vietnam, Fo Guang Shan Mabuhay Temple and Orchid Garden Suites. The street also hosts the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas headquarters at the junction with Roxas Boulevard, where Legaspi Towers 300 is also located. Near the intersection with Taft Avenue are several condominium towers, such as the Cityland Vito Cruz Towers and Torre Lorenzo.

The street also provides access to the De La Salle University and De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde campuses located just north of the intersection with Taft Avenue. Arellano University School of Law is also accessible via Donada Street, a street connected to Vito Cruz. It is also the site of Saint Scholastica's College and School of Arts and Design of De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde, which houses the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design. In the San Andres and Makati areas east of Osmeña Highway, the street hosts the Rafael Palma Elementary School, Kingswood Towers, Savana Market, Shopwise Makati, the relocated Mapúa University Makati Campus, and the Manila South Cemetery at its terminus.

The street is also served by the Vito Cruz LRT Station along Taft Avenue and the Vito Cruz railway station along Osmeña Highway.