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Business permits & payments
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Go to Baguio eBPLS →Certificates & city services
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Find a service →City office directory
Look up office contacts, forms, locations, and Citizen’s Charter details.
Find a city office →Your local government
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Who represents you
Meet Baguio’s mayor, vice mayor, district representative, and city council.
Meet the officials →What is being built
Search city infrastructure projects by year, stage, office, and barangay.
Open the projects tracker →What the council is deciding
Find ordinances, resolutions, proposals, agendas, and council members.
Follow local legislation →Where the money goes
Reach city budgets, procurement notices, audit reports, and open data.
Follow the public record →City leadership
Meet the full councilBaguio’s current elected leaders
Benjamin B. Magalong
Faustino A. Olowan
Mauricio G. Domogan
A short civic history
How Baguio became the city it is today
The story begins with the Indigenous Ibaloi community of Kafagway and continues through more than a century of change.
Before 1900Indigenous roots
Kafagway and its Ibaloi stewards
Long before the modern city, the area was known as Kafagway and cared for by Ibaloi communities. Its clearings supported communal pasture, agriculture, livestock, trade, and cultural practices tied closely to the land.
1900Civil government
Baguio becomes Benguet’s capital
Acts No. 48 and 49 organized local civil governments in Benguet in November 1900. Baguio was listed as a township and named the provincial capital, placing it at the center of the new colonial administration.
1909City charter
A chartered city is established
Act No. 1963 was enacted on August 9 and took effect on September 1, incorporating the township as the City of Baguio. The charter defined the city’s boundaries, government, property, and municipal powers.
2022Revised charter
The charter is updated for a modern Baguio
Republic Act No. 11689 lapsed into law on April 11, 2022. It emphasized inclusive citizenship, environmental and heritage protection, transparency, and accountability while retaining Baguio’s identity as a highly urbanized city and lone legislative district.
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Where these facts come from
- Philippine Statistics Authority: City of Baguio profile and barangays
- PSA-CAR: Baguio’s 2024 economic performance
- PSA-CAR StatWatch: Baguio City, Q1 2026
- DENR: Kafagway’s Ibaloi roots and relationship with the land
- Supreme Court E-Library: Act No. 49, Benguet civil government
- Supreme Court E-Library: Act No. 1963, original Baguio City Charter
- Supreme Court E-Library: Republic Act No. 11689, Revised Charter
- City Government of Baguio official portal