Also known as: Tanay, Rizal, Bayan ng Tanay
Tanay is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON). Population 146K (PSA 2024 census), 20 barangays, land area 200.0 km².
Tanay is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON).
No. Tanay is a municipality in Rizal, Region IV-A (CALABARZON), outside Metro Manila (the National Capital Region).
Tanay had 145,597 residents in the 2024 census (PSA 2024 Census of Population (POPCEN 2024), reference date July 1, 2024). That is the most recent official count. There is no 2026 census result, so any 2026 population figure is an estimate.
Tanay covers 200.0 km², per the PSA Philippine Statistical Yearbook figure used on this page.
Tanay has 20 barangays.
Tanay is Rizal province's largest municipality by land area — 200 km², more than 16% of the entire province — stretching from lowland barangays near Laguna de Bay up into the Sierra Madre foothills. Known as the “Tourism Capital of Rizal,” it draws weekend visitors to Mount Daraitan's river-trekking trails and Daranak Falls, an economy that sits alongside a 14.21% poverty incidence — noticeably higher than the lakeshore towns closer to Metro Manila, and a signal of how uneven development is between Tanay's urbanizing lowland barangays and its more remote upland ones. That split is the core of Tanay's CLUP question: balancing eco-tourism site development and visitor carrying capacity against watershed and forest protection in a municipality that forms part of the Sierra Madre's water catchment for the whole Marikina-Pasig river system, while its 20 barangays cover wildly different terrain, population density, and hazard exposure.
Key industries: Eco-tourism, Agriculture (upland), Quarrying, Retail
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