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Baguio
Baguio ( , ), officially the City of Baguio ( ilo, Siudad ti Baguio; fil, Lungsod ng Baguio), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines. It is known as the "Summer Capital of the Philippines", owing to its cool climate since the city is located approximately above mean sea level, often cited as in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion, which also makes it conducive for the growth of mossy plants, orchids and pine trees, to which it attributes its other moniker as the "City of Pines". Baguio was established as a hill station by the United States in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as ''Kafagway''. It was the United States' only hill station in Asia. Baguio is classified as a Highly-Urbanized City (HUC). It is geographically located within Benguet, serving as the provincial capital from 1901 to 1916, but has since been administered independently from the province following its conversion into a chartered cit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BLISTT
BLISTT (informally, Metro Baguio) is an agglomeration of the city of Baguio and five Municipalities of the Philippines, municipalities of the province of Benguet, namely: La Trinidad, Benguet, La Trinidad, Itogon, Benguet, Itogon, Sablan, Benguet, Sablan, Tuba, Benguet, Tuba, and Tublay, Benguet, Tublay. Long proposed and supported by the National Economic and Development Authority, NEDA-Regional Development Council-Cordillera, it as one of twelve defined metropolitan areas in the Philippines. The original "BLIST" long existed as a concept since its inception in August 1990, a month after the 1990 Luzon earthquake, 1990 earthquake which devastated the city of Baguio and other surrounding areas, and only existed as an informal reference to the area. The concept was later amended into "BLISTT" in 2009, which included the municipality of Tublay, Benguet, Tublay, despite not being adjacent to the city of Baguio. It was officially established after a signing of a memorandum of agreeme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
