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Baguio, officially the City of Baguio ( Ibaloi: Ciudad ne Bagiw; ; ; ; ) and often referred to as Baguio City, is a highly urbanized city in northern Luzon of the Philippines.Now also known as Summer Capital of the Philippines. 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 city. The city has become the center of business, commerce, and education in northern Luzon, as well as the regional center of the Cordillera Administrative Region. According to the , Baguio has a population of .
Baguio was established as a hill station by the Americans in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi village known as Kafagway. It was the United States' only hill station in Asia. The name of the city is derived from bagiw, the Ibaloi word for "moss". The city is situated at an altitude of approximately in the Luzon tropical pine forests ecoregion conducive for the growth of mossy plants and orchids.
Baguio is a city in the Philippines.
Baguio may also refer to:
- Metro Baguio
- Baguio Villa, Hong Kong
Usage examples of "baguio".
An ordinary incident was that of the journey of a party of little girls from far Sagada to Easter School at Baguio, in the season of 1923.
The Mountain Province, Baguio, Nueva Vizcaya, and the Department of Mindanao and Sulu.
My first twenty- three years ill- prepared me to be plunked down as a World War II infantryman for three and one- half years-- in the dank jungles of the Solomon Islands, in the lethal streets and buildings of Manila and on the frightening, winding mountain roads leading up to Baguio in the Philippines.
Following the Manila campaign, the regiment reorganized and re- equipped in Manila and, on 7 April 1945 received orders to move to Naguilian to join in the attack on Baguio, the Philippine summer capital and one of the remaining Japanese strong points on Luzon.
On 13 April 1945, the Third Battalion, advancing along Highway 9 from Monglo Hill toward Baguio, employed medium tanks against enemy positions in caves along the road, and reached the west slope of Hairpin Hill after an advance of 1500 yards against moderate resistance.
In four days of the fiercest type of fighting, against a stubborn and well- emplaced enemy, the main Japanese defense line west of Baguio was broken, and the attack was tremendously accelerated.
On 21 April, the 148th Infantry left the road and moved almost due east toward the Trinidad Rice Bowl, to cut the Japanese escape route from the Baguio area.
Then, in the final action to cut off the Japanese retreat from Baguio north through Trinidad, the regiment crossed the Bowl and secured the hill mass north of Trinidad.
A replacement corporal who had joined us for the mountain fighting at Baguio and Balete Pass, April of this year, first wanted to kick a few hundred of them in what we shall euphemistically call the lower groin.
I saw reflected in his eyes, not them, no, nor the bright green fairway fringed in dark pine, nor the city of Baguio misty and lost in the distance, none of these, but the long delicate snout of that mythic Lincoln.
Again awake as the plane approached Baguio, I glimpsed the stark arrogant mountains tripping and falling among themselves, tumbling into the waiting, self-righteous valleys, and then the soft plateau resting above the gigantic disorder.
In the distance sits the city of Baguio, summer capital of the Philippines, a multi-colored maze spread over half a dozen soft hills.
For you see, I am still strapped to this bed in a traction cast, the sky over Baguio is still a sexual blue, the grass sensual green, Abigail Light lovely, lovely, and Doctor Gallard concerned.
At 0930 two flights of bombers from Formosa struck Baguio and the Tugugarao airfield in northern Luzon.