city, central Luzon, northern Philippines, an eastern residential and industrial suburb of Manila. Located south of Quezon City and north of Mandaluyong, it is on the San Juan and Pasig rivers just above their junction. San Juan del Monte is near the site of the battle of Pinaglabanan (1896), which marked the beginning of the armed revolutionary movement against Spanish colonialism in the Philippines. Pop. (2000) 117,680.