Baguio City

The City of Baguio (Ilokano:Ciudad ti Baguio,Filipino:Lungsod ng Baguio) is a 1st class highly urbanized city in northern Luzon in the Philippines.Baguio City was established by American in 1900 at the site of an Ibaloi Village known as Kafagway Baguio City was designated by the Philippine Commission as the Summer Capital of the Philippines on June 1,1903 and incorporated as a city by the Philippine Assembly on September 1,1909.
There is a presidential mansion,as well as supreme court and legislative offices in Baguio.
Baguio is the seat of government of the Cordillera Administrative Region.The name of the City is derived from the word Baguio in Ibaloi,the indigenous language of the Benguet Region,meaning "moss".The city is at an altitude of approximately 1500 meters(5100 feet) in a moist tropical pine forest conducive to the growth of mossy plants and orchids.

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