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Tuba, Benguet
Tuba, officially the Municipality of Tuba, (Ilocano: Ili ti Tuba; Tagalog: Bayan ng Tuba), is a municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 48,312 people.
Tuba is known as the "Gateway to Baguio", as the Asin–Nangalisan–San Pascual Road, Ben Palispis Highway or Marcos Highway, Kennon Road and Naguilian Road, four access highways of the adjacent city of Baguio, traverse the municipality.
Tuba was originally a barrio of the township of Baguio in the early 1900s under the American colonial period. It was separated from Baguio upon the latter's conversion into a chartered city on September 1, 1909, and became part of the township of Twin Peaks in Benguet.
Twin Peaks was abolished as a township on December 11, 1911, with the issuance of Executive Order No. 77 by American Governor General William Cameron Forbes, creating the township of Tuba.
On June 25, 1963, President Diosdado Macapagal issued Executive Order No. 42 and by operation of Section 2 of Republic Act No. 1515, the municipal District of Tuba was converted into a regular municipality. Its first mayor was Wakat Suello.
The Municipality of Tuba is at the south-western tip of both Benguet and the Central Cordillera Mountain Range. South of the municipality lies the province of Pangasinan and to the west lies the Ilocos rolling hills of the province of La Union. It is bordered on the north by Sablan and La Trinidad; east by Baguio and Itogon; and south by Sison and San Manuel.
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the municipality has a land area of 295.97 square kilometres (114.27 sq mi) constituting 10.69% of the 2,769.08-square-kilometre- (1,069.15 sq mi) total area of Benguet. The municipality's urban area comprises the barangays of Poblacion and Camp 3, having a composite land area of 83.85 square kilometres (32.37 sq mi), or 19.31% of the total land area.
Tuba is situated 12.64 kilometres (7.85 mi) from the provincial capital La Trinidad, and 254.20 kilometres (157.95 mi) from the country's capital city of Manila.
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Tuba, Benguet
Tuba, officially the Municipality of Tuba, (Ilocano: Ili ti Tuba; Tagalog: Bayan ng Tuba), is a municipality in the province of Benguet, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 48,312 people.
Tuba is known as the "Gateway to Baguio", as the Asin–Nangalisan–San Pascual Road, Ben Palispis Highway or Marcos Highway, Kennon Road and Naguilian Road, four access highways of the adjacent city of Baguio, traverse the municipality.
Tuba was originally a barrio of the township of Baguio in the early 1900s under the American colonial period. It was separated from Baguio upon the latter's conversion into a chartered city on September 1, 1909, and became part of the township of Twin Peaks in Benguet.
Twin Peaks was abolished as a township on December 11, 1911, with the issuance of Executive Order No. 77 by American Governor General William Cameron Forbes, creating the township of Tuba.
On June 25, 1963, President Diosdado Macapagal issued Executive Order No. 42 and by operation of Section 2 of Republic Act No. 1515, the municipal District of Tuba was converted into a regular municipality. Its first mayor was Wakat Suello.
The Municipality of Tuba is at the south-western tip of both Benguet and the Central Cordillera Mountain Range. South of the municipality lies the province of Pangasinan and to the west lies the Ilocos rolling hills of the province of La Union. It is bordered on the north by Sablan and La Trinidad; east by Baguio and Itogon; and south by Sison and San Manuel.
According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the municipality has a land area of 295.97 square kilometres (114.27 sq mi) constituting 10.69% of the 2,769.08-square-kilometre- (1,069.15 sq mi) total area of Benguet. The municipality's urban area comprises the barangays of Poblacion and Camp 3, having a composite land area of 83.85 square kilometres (32.37 sq mi), or 19.31% of the total land area.
Tuba is situated 12.64 kilometres (7.85 mi) from the provincial capital La Trinidad, and 254.20 kilometres (157.95 mi) from the country's capital city of Manila.