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| Gregorio Araneta Avenue | |
| Maint: | Department of Public Works and Highways |
| Namesake: | Gregorio S. Araneta |
| Length Km: | 5.3 |
| Length Round: | 1 |
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| Direction A: | North |
| Terminus A: | Santo Domingo Avenue in Quezon City |
| Direction B: | South |
| Terminus B: | N. Domingo Street in San Juan |
| Location: | Quezon City and San Juan |
| Completion Date: | 1985[1] |
Gregorio Araneta Avenue is a suburban arterial road in the Santa Mesa Heights area of Quezon City, northeastern Metro Manila, Philippines. Built in 1985, it is a 6- to 8-lane divided avenue designated as part of Circumferential Road 3 (C-3) and a physical continuation of Sergeant Rivera Street which travels from Santo Domingo Avenue at its north end near Balintawak in Quezon City, and meets N. Domingo Street in the south in San Juan near the border with Santa Mesa, Manila. En route, it intersects with Del Monte Avenue, Quezon Avenue, Eulogio Rodriguez Sr. Avenue and Magsaysay-Aurora Boulevard passing through barangays Balingasa, Manresa, Masambong, Sienna, Santo Domingo, Talayan, Tatalon, Santol, and Doña Imelda in Quezon City and Progreso in San Juan.
The avenue lies in a flood-prone zone in close proximity to the San Francisco del Monte and San Juan Rivers. It was named after lawyer and landowner Gregorio S. Araneta, who owned the Santa Mesa Heights Subdivision on which the avenue was built.[2]
Between Del Monte Avenue and Quezon Avenue, Gregorio Araneta Avenue runs alongside the Talayan Creek, serving as the waterway median of the avenue. As a result of the Skyway Stage 3 project, parts of the waterway median were converted into a closed culvert for access to and from the Skyway.
The Metro Manila Skyway Stage 3 traverses almost the entire length of the road, starting from Sergeant Rivera Avenue down to the San Juan River.
Gregorio Araneta Avenue is best known as the location of some of the biggest funeral parlors in the metropolis. These are the Arlington Memorial Chapels, La Funeraria Paz, Ascension Columbary, Cosmopolitan, Nacional Memorial Homes, and the Sanctuarium (formerly Capitol Memorial). The oldest is Funeraria Nacional which moved to Gregorio Araneta from its old address in downtown Avenida Rizal in 1968, and now affiliated with Heritage Park after an extensive renovation. It was followed by La Funeraria Paz in the 1970s and Arlington, which converted the old Thomas Jefferson Library on the avenue into a funeral facility, in 1985.[3]
In 2014, the Department of Science and Technology built an automated garbage rake in the intersection of Araneta Avenue and Mauban Street, functioning as a cleaning facility for the river, in response to the perennial flooding and garbage problems in the area. Garbage trucks regularly collected garbages that were captured from the river, as well as those dumped nearby.[4] It is currently under repairs and refurbishment.