Legaspi

Legazpi, formally the City of Legazpi and regularly referred to as Legazpi City, is a 1st Class component town and the capital of the province of Albay in the Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 196,639. Legazpi is the local center and largest town of the Bicol Region, in phrases of population. It is the area's middle of tourism, education, fitness services, trade and transportation in the Bicol Region. The location this is now Albay had a thriving civilization before the Spanish arrived.

The Spanish explorers discovered densely populated settlements with an abundance of gold and provisions inside the southern Bicol peninsula. Ancient inhabitants practiced rice cultivation, made nice gold earrings and possessed silk, suggesting trade with China. American anthropologist Henry Otley Beyer discovered jars, stone equipment and shells from one hundred to 500 BC in Sorsogon and Albay. Meanwhile, ancient burial jars and pottery have been additionally determined in Hoyop-Hoyopan Cave in Camalig. Other evidences of pre-Hispanic civilization encompass the Mataas shell scoop, which dates back to the Late Neolithic Period, determined in Cagraray Island. The Mataas shell scoop was d a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum of the Philippines.