27 Facts About Legazpi Albay

In 2018, Legazpi Albay was ranked first in overall competitiveness among component cities by the National Competitiveness Council.

City of Legazpi Albay was named after Miguel Lopez de Legazpi Albay, the Basque Spanish conquistador who officially annexed the Philippine Islands to the Spanish Empire in 1565, and whose surname came from a town in Gipuzkoa, Spain.

Legazpi Albay was originally a fishing settlement called Sawangan that occupied the mangrove swamps that is the Legazpi Albay Port, inhabited by fisher folk and farmers.

In 1616, Pueblo de Legazpi Albay served as the capital of Partido de Ibalon, which included present-day Legazpi Albay, Sorsogon, Masbate, parts of Camarines Sur and the islands of Catanduanes, Ticao and Burias.

Port of Legazpi Albay served as anchorage for ships sailing to Nueva Espana beginning in the latter part of the 16th century.

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Legazpi Albay was declared a city for the first time under the Becerra Law of 1892.

Legazpi is on the eastern portion of the province of Albay bounded on the north by the municipality of Santo Domingo, on the east by the Albay Gulf, on the west by the municipality of Daraga, and on the south by the municipalities of Manito, Albay and Pilar and Castilla, Sorsogon.

Legazpi Albay's topography is generally plain on the northeastern areas, with slopes ranging from five to fifteen degrees.

Legazpi Albay is criss-crossed by several rivers including the Tibu, Macabalo and Yawa rivers with a number of swampy areas, particularly in the urban district.

Legazpi Albay has noticeably wetter and drier periods of the year.

The City Government of Legazpi Albay was recognized by the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council as a model locality in implementing risk reduction management practices in the Philippines.

Specific disaster preparedness strategies in Albay and Legazpi include preemptive evacuation, 'zero casualty' policy, re-planning of the city's land use, mangrove reforestation, and the establishment of the Climate Change Academy as a training center for disaster risk management, evaluation of climate risk hazards and adaptive capabilities, planning, and programming.

Legazpi Albay is a major economic hub in the Bicol Region.

Legazpi Albay City was recognized as the most business-friendly city in Southern Luzon in 2007 by the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Legazpi Albay is recognized as one of the 'next wave cities' for business process outsourcing .

Legazpi Albay is aiming to attract more BPO firms to put up offices in the city.

Legazpi Albay has the tourism tagline the "City of Fun and Adventure", with a number of adventure tourism activities within the city including riding an ATV around Mt.

Legazpi Albay is aiming to be one of the top five convention destinations in Luzon by 2020.

Legazpi Albay was a port of call for German cruise ship Hapag-Lloyd Cruises' MS Bremen in October 2018.

The current city mayor of Legazpi Albay is Noel Rosal, elected during the 2016 Philippine Elections.

Legazpi Albay is considered as the gateway to Bicol because of its relative proximity to the provinces of the region due to its geographical location.

In 2015, the Legazpi Albay Airport was renovated to expand and improve the passenger terminal, add separate arrival and pre-departure areas for domestic and international chartered flights, and provide office space for the Bureau of Immigration, customs and animal quarantine, and the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency.

Port of Legazpi Albay is classified as a national sub-port of entry catering to domestic and foreign cargo vessels.

In 2010, Legazpi Albay implemented a solid waste management program with emphasis on reduction of waste in the household and business establishment level; resource recovery, recycling, and reusing at the barangay level; collection, transfer, transport and management of residual waste at the city level.

Legazpi Albay is a center of education in the Bicol Region.

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University of Santo Tomas – Legazpi Albay offers pre-elementary, elementary, high school, Senior High School, and twenty–three programs, the newest of which are the BS Pharmacy, the first and only program in the Region, and BS Medical Technology, both supervised by UST-Manila.

Divine Word College of Legazpi Albay is a Catholic college run by the Societas Verbi Divini Congregation.