Aguinaldo Highway

For the highway in western Tagaytay also known as Aguinaldo Highway, see Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway.

R-2 Aguinaldo Highway
Cavite–Batangas Road Cavite-Manila South Road
Aguinaldo Highway highlighted in red
Aguinaldo Highway looking south towards Tagaytay Rotonda in Tagaytay
Route information
Maintained by the Department of Public Works and Highways
Length	41.4 km (25.7 mi)
Component highways	R-2 R-2 N62 in Bacoor N419 from Bacoor to Dasmariñas N410 in Silang and Tagaytay
Major junctions
North end	Zapote Bridge at Las Piñas–Bacoor boundary
Major intersections	N62 (Aguinaldo Boulevard) in Bacoor N62 (Tirona Highway) in Bacoor N65 (Governor's Drive) in Dasmariñas E3 (Cavite–Laguna Expressway)
South end	N410 (Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway) / N421 (Tagaytay–Calamba Road) / Tagaytay–Talisay Road in Tagaytay
Location
Country	Philippines
Provinces	Cavite
Major cities	Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, Tagaytay
Towns	Silang
Highway system
Roads in the Philippines Highways Expressways List

The Emilio Aguinaldo Highway, (often shortened as Aguinaldo Highway), alternatively known as Cavite–Batangas Road and Cavite-Manila South Road, is a four-to-six lane, 41.4-kilometer (25.7 mi), network of primary and secondary highways passing through the busiest towns and cities of Cavite, Philippines. It is the busiest and most congested of the three major highways located in the province, the others are Governor's Drive and Antero Soriano Highway.

The highway is named in the honor of General Emilio Aguinaldo, the country's first president and a native of Cavite.

The northern terminus of the highway is located at the Zapote Bridge at the province's boundary with Las Piñas in Metro Manila. It then traverses Bacoor, Imus, Dasmariñas, Silang, and ends at Tagaytay in Cavite. The highway forms part of National Routes 62, 419, and 410 of the Philippine highway network. The highway has several official names, like Manila–Cavite South Road, Cavite–Batangas Road, and Tagaytay-Manila via Silang Road. The west alignment of the poblacion area of Silang, is unnumbered as a newer bypass named Silang Bypass Road (or Silang Diversion Road) and is designated as a tertiary road. The section that connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway (then Coastal Road), called the Aguinaldo Boulevard, is also designated as National Route 62 (N62) of the Philippine highway network.

Route description

Aguinaldo Highway looking south towards Nueno Avenue in Imus.

Aguinaldo Highway passes through many establishments such as malls, shops, and government offices. Various high voltage power lines, most notably the Dasmariñas-Las Piñas transmission line of National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), utilize the highway right of way from its intersection with Aguinaldo Boulevard and Bacoor Boulevard to Barangay San Agustin II, Dasmariñas for accessibility to work vehicles and also due to scarcity of land for the acquisition of right of way and lands where the steel poles stand.

Originally with four lanes, it starts as a continuation of Diego Cera Avenue at Zapote Bridge. It crosses and becomes a six-lane road past Bacoor Boulevard which leads to Molino, Bacoor, and Aguinaldo Boulevard, which connects with Manila–Cavite Expressway. It then intersects with Tirona Highway that leads to Kawit and Cavite City. It then passes Imus and enters Dasmariñas, where it reduces to a four-lane road and becoming a divided highway in most portions. Afterwards, it then intersects with Governor's Drive and Pala-Pala Road in Dasmariñas.

Past Pala-Pala Road, it begins its climb to Tagaytay, passing Silang and ends at Tagaytay Rotonda. The highway continues as Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway as it passes the rest of Tagaytay and Alfonso in Cavite before entering the province of Batangas.

History

The present road originated from an old road that enters Cavite from Las Piñas. The old roads that predated the Aguinaldo Highway used a different alignment on Bacoor and Imus, that exist until today as a mixture of city-maintained roads and national roads. Portions of the road have been sites of battles of the Philippine Revolution.

During the American colonial era, the road reached as far as Silang. From 1933 to 1935, the section of the highway from Silang to Tagaytay was constructed using prisoners as construction workers. In 1938, the highway was made into concrete by President Manuel L. Quezon. The old roads that passed on the western barangays of Bacoor and Imus are bypassed by a new alignment that existed until today. The road formed part of Highway 17 that linked Imus with Batangas. It was also part of the Cavite-Manila South Road, which was renamed to Mexico Road in 1964, the year designated as "The Year of Philippine-Mexican Friendship."

On May 27, 1998, the traffic jam happened in southern side of the highway. It was caused by National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR/NPC) transmission line construction of the billion peso Dasmariñas–Las Piñas Transmission Line, with the line finished construction on July 15, 1999.

Intersections

Aguinaldo Highway, alternately and unofficially Aguinaldo Boulevard, in Dasmariñas

The entire route is located in Cavite. Intersections are numbered by kilometer posts, with Rizal Park in Manila designated as kilometer zero. 

City/Municipality	km	mi	Destinations	Notes
Las Piñas–Bacoor boundary	14.846	9.225	Zapote Bridge over Zapote River Las Piñas-Muntinlupa District Engineering Office–Cavite Sub District Engineering Office highway boundary
Bacoor			N62 (Aguinaldo Boulevard) / Bacoor Boulevard – Paliparan, Dasmariñas	Traffic light intersection
	17.456	10.847	N62 (Tirona Highway) – Kawit	Traffic light intersection. Route number change from N62 to N419.
Bacoor–Imus boundary	18.943	11.771	Cavite Sub District Engineering Office–Cavite 1st District Engineering Office highway boundary
Imus			NOMO Avenue (Imus-Bacoor Diversion Road)
			Buhay na Tubig Road	Traffic light intersection
			Palico Daanan Road
	20.050	12.458	Imus Bridge over Imus River
			Nueno Avenue	Traffic light intersection
			Patindig Araw Road
			NIA Road
			Daang Hari / Open Canal Road	At-grade interchange; traffic light intersection
Imus–Dasmariñas boundary	26.998	16.776	Cavite 1st District Engineering Office–Cavite Sub District Engineering Office highway boundary
Dasmariñas			J.T. Paterno Boulevard – Imus	Southbound access only
			Jose Abad Santos Avenue (Salitran Road)	Traffic light intersection
			Guevarra Street	Traffic light intersection
			Camerino Avenue	Traffic light intersection
			Congressional Avenue	Traffic light intersection. Serves De La Salle University - Dasmariñas Campus.
			Central Market Avenue	Traffic light intersection
			Don Placido Campos Avenue	Unsignalized intersection
			Ramon Tirona Avenue
			N65 (Juanito Remulla Avenue/ Governor's Drive) – Trece Martires, Biñan	Traffic light intersection
			N65 (Pala-Pala Road)	Traffic light intersection
			UTS Boulevard	Traffic light intersection
Dasmariñas–Silang boundary	38.985	24.224	Route number change from N419 to N410
Silang			E3 (CALAX)	Silang (Aguinaldo) Exit of CALAX
			N410 (J.P. Rizal Street)	Change from N410 to unnumbered route
			Silang–Banaybanay Road	Traffic light intersection
			N410 (J.P. Rizal Street)	Changed from unnumbered route to N410
			East–West Lateral Road
			Buho–Amadeo Road
Silang–Tagaytay boundary	53.763	33.407	Cavite Sub District Engineering Office–Cavite 2nd District Engineering Office highway boundary
Tagaytay			Tagaytay Bypass Road
	56.894	35.352	N410 (Tagaytay–Nasugbu Highway) / N421 (Tagaytay–Calamba Road) / Tagaytay–Talisay Road	Roundabout. Southern Terminus.
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi       Incomplete access       Route transition