6,000 people live in a cemetery in Manila (20 photos)
In the Philippine capital of Manila there is a cemetery where about 6 thousands of locals. Cemetery area Cementerio del Norte - 54 hectares. This the oldest and largest cemetery in the city and is often visited tourists. 
The North Cemetery in Manila is almost an entire city, with streets and lanes lined with tens of thousands of graves. On territory even has basketball hoops, restaurants, internet cafes, a karaoke room and fast food stalls selling snacks and cigarettes. At the same time, about 80 funerals are held at the northern cemetery every day. 
Homeless people live in the cemetery - Filipinos who cannot afford urban housing. Some of the locals even work for cemetery - teenagers, for example, earn extra money helping to carry coffins. Children collect scrap metal, plastic and other rubbish for sale. Other people look after and care for the graves, receiving money for this, and someone conducts tours of the cemetery for tourists. 
It is not known exactly when the cemetery began to be inhabited. By to the stories of residents who came here in the 1950s, by that time there there were already a lot of people. By the way, Manila is a city with a population of about 12 million people, the fifth largest in the world, and the eleventh largest metropolis. 
