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Baguio
City (ba´geo, Sp. bägyo´), city (1990 pop. 183,142),
Benguet prov., NW Luzon, the Philippines. Baguio is
the summer capital of the country, with many government
buildings. It is also a noted mountain resort situated
in beautiful pine forests and is the center of a major
gold-producing area. The city is noted for the wood
carvings of its Igorot aborigines. Nearby, at Lepanto,
are important copper mines, and there is a major hydroelectric
development on the Agno River. Originally settled by
the Spanish, Baguio developed only after the American
occupation, when a modern city was laid out (1909) by
Daniel H. Burnham and roads were built (the first in
1913) to connect it with the main highways. The city
was captured early (Dec., 1941) in World War II by Japanese
land forces. Baguio is the seat of the national Philippine
Military Academy, the Univ. of Baguio, and St. Louis
Univ.
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