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Cemeteries have a way of holding stories without speaking them aloud. La Loma Cemetery, officially known as Campo Santo de La Loma, rises from land once called Paang Bundok, or “old hill.” Its origins trace back to the aftermath of the devastating 1863 Manila earthquake, when overcrowding in older burial grounds such as Paco Cemetery forced Spanish colonial authorities to establish a new cemetery on higher terrain. Planning began in the 1860s, and by 1884 the cemetery opened under the name Cementerio de Binondo, serving exclusively as a Catholic burial ground.