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Benguet (IPA: [bɛŋˈɡɛt]), officially the Province of Benguet (Ibaloi: Probinsya ne Benguet; Kankanaey: Probinsyan di Benguet; Pangasinan: Luyag/Probinsia na Benguet; Ilocano: Probinsia ti Benguet; Filipino: Lalawigan ng Benguet), is a landlocked province of the Philippines located in the southern tip of the Cordillera Administrative Region in the island of Luzon.
The province of Benguet has 269 barangays comprising its 13 municipalities and 1 independent city. [1] [2]
The presence of the Benguet State University in the municipality serves as a boost to agricultural research and development in the region. [ 57 ] The town landed on the Guinness Book of World Records for baking the world's largest strawberry shortcake , at 21,213.40 pounds (9,622.24 kg), at the La Trinidad Strawberry Festival on March 20, 2004.
Metro Baguio, also known as BLISTT, is an agglomeration of the city of Baguio and five municipalities of the Philippine province of Benguet, namely: La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, Tuba, and Tublay. Long proposed and supported by the NEDA-Regional Development Council-Cordillera , [ 2 ] it was previously defined between 2007 and 2017 as one of ...
[5] [12] On August 13, 1908, Benguet was established as a sub-province of the newly created Mountain Province with the enactment of Act No. 1876. As a result, six townships of Benguet were abolished, but Buguias remained a constituent town of Benguet sub-province. [11] In 1918, the mummy of Apo Anno was stolen by foreign treasure hunters.
Itogon is located at , at the southeast end of the Benguet, forming a border with the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya (on the east) and Pangasinan (on the south The town is bounded by Baguio and the municipality of Tuba on the west, La Trinidad and Tublay on the north-west, Bokod on the north-east, Kayapa and Santa Fe on the southeast, San Manuel ...
Mountain Province was also the name of the historical province that included most of the current Cordillera provinces. This old province was established by the Philippine Commission in 1908, [4] [5] [6] and was later split in 1966 into Mountain Province, Benguet, Kalinga-Apayao and Ifugao. [7] [8] [9]