Metro Baguio
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BLISTT Metro Baguio |
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| Metropolitan Area | |
Baguio City Skyline
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 Location in Benguet province with Baguio City highlighted in red |
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| Country | Philippines |
| Region |
Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) |
| Province | Benguet |
| Metropolitan Center | Baguio |
| City/Municipality | |
| Government | |
| • Type | Council |
| • Chairman | Mauricio Domogan (mayor of Baguio City) |
| • Co-Chairman | Arthur Baldo (mayor of Sablan) |
| • Treasurer | Edna Tabanda (mayor of La Trinidad) |
| • Secretary | Ruben Paoad (mayor of Tublay) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,094.79 km2 (422.70 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 500 to 1,850 m (1,500 to 6,069 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 551,764 |
| • Density | 500/km2 (1,300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+8) |
| Area Code | +63 74 |
BLISTT (informally, Metro Baguio) is an agglomeration of the city of Baguio and five municipalities of the province of Benguet, namely: La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, Tuba, and Tublay.
Long proposed and supported by the 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 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, despite not being adjacent to the city of Baguio. It was officially established after a signing of a memorandum of agreement by the mayors of the component local government units.
BLISTT, like Metro Manila and Metro Cebu, is not an administrative political unit but an agglomeration of independent local government units (LGUs), the third level government in the Philippine political system.
The original BLIST concept was visualized by the key stakeholders in August 1990 after the 1990 Luzon earthquake devastated Baguio. Supported by a European Union grant in 1992, the BLIST Urban Plan was completed in 1994, which aimed to reconstruct the city following the earthquake and to reduce overcrowding in the city. The concept was not supported by the component Benguet municipalities of La Trinidad, Itogon, Sablan, and Tuba such that it was prepared with little consultation, and was primarily developed for the sole convenience of Baguio.
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