Metro Iloilo–Guimaras

Iloilo City, officially known as the City of Iloilo (Hiligaynon: Siyudad/Dakbanwa sang Iloilo; Tagalog: Lungsod ng Iloilo), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It is the capital city of the province of Iloilo, where it is geographically situated and grouped under the Philippine Statistics Authority, but remains politically independent in terms of government and administration. In addition, it is the center of the Iloilo-Guimaras Metropolitan Area, as well as the regional center and primate city of the Western Visayas region. According to the 2020 census, Iloilo City has a population of 457,626 inhabitants, with a 0.42% population annual growth rate.  For the metropolitan area, the total population is 1,109,649 inhabitants. Iloilo City is a conglomeration of former towns, which are now the geo-political districts consisting of: Villa de Arevalo, Iloilo City Proper, Jaro (an independent city before), La Paz, Mandurriao, and Molo. The district of Lapuz, a former part of La Paz, was declared a separate district in 2008.The first Spanish settlement in Iloilo was founded in 1566, when the Spaniards established a settlement area between the town of Oton and the city's present district of Villa de Arevalo. It was the second Spanish colonial center after Cebu in the Philippine Islands. Iloilo officially became a city on October 5, 1889, through a Royal Spanish decree and was one of the Royal Spanish Cities in the Philippines in Spanish Asia, along with Manila and Naga. The honorific royal title, "La Muy Leal y Noble Ciudad" ("The Most Loyal and Noble City"), was given by the Queen Regent of Spain, Maria Christina, to Iloilo. It was an inscription in the Coat of Arms from the Royal Decree of 1896, for the city's loyalty to the Spanish crown during the Philippine Revolution, and it remained inscribed on the city's official seal until the present. Iloilo was the second city in the country to have such a byname, after the City of Manila in the Spanish colonial era Philippines. Iloilo was also more popularly known as "La Reina Ciudad del Sur" ("The Queen City of the South"), being second only to the most important and primate city in the Philippines, Manila, at the turn of the 20th century in terms of economy, with foreign and local commercial establishments lining the whole stretch of Calle Real (Iloilo's Escolta and old business district), an agricultural experimental station established at La Paz in 1888, a school of arts and trades which opened in 1891, and a telephone network system operating in the metropolis in 1894. Iloilo was the last capital of the Spanish Empire in Asia and the Pacific before the Philippines was ceded to the United States in 1898 through the Treaty of Paris. The Federal State of the Visayas, a short-lived revolutionary state composed of the Provisional Government of the District of Visayas (Panay), the Cantonal Government of Bohol, the Cantonal Government of Negros, and the island of Cebu, was later established, and the City of Iloilo became its capital. The city is the site of the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral, the seat of Roman Catholicism in Western Visayas and the second National Shrine dedicated to Marian devotion in Visayas and Mindanao (first in Western Visayas); the Archdiocese of Jaro, one of the oldest and largest archdioceses in the country, founded as a parish in 1587; and Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Virgin of Candelaria), the first marian image crowned personally without a papal legate by a pope and saint in the Philippines and Asia (by Pope John Paul II).Central Philippine University (CPU), a university founded by American Protestants through a grant from John D. Rockefeller in 1905 as the first Baptist Missionary School, attracts 14,000 enrollees from different parts of the Philippines and twenty-seven foreign countries annually, the largest in the Western Visayan region. CPU is also the first institution in the said region to be ranked as one of the top and best Asian and global universities by Quacquarelli Symonds, one of the big two world university ranking agencies after Times Higher Education.As one of the gastronomic capitals of the Philippines, Iloilo is famous for Pancit Molo; La Paz Batchoy; Kadyos, Baboy kag Langka (KBL); Laswa; and Kansi. Several regional and national government offices, financial institutions, and government-owned and controlled corporations held offices in the city. The Dinagyang Festival, held every January; the Paraw Regatta, Asia's oldest sailing event; and the Fiesta de la Candelaria (Jaro Fiesta), one of the largest Philippine marian festivities; are three of the known cultural and religious festivals the city is flocked and renowned for in the country. The city is the regional hub of education, culinary, religion, healthcare, tourism, culture, industry, and economy in the Western Visayas region.

The Iloilo Science and Technology University (also referred to as ISAT-U or ISAT) is a state research university located in La Paz, Iloilo City, Philippines. Founded in 1905 under the American colonial government of the Philippines, it is mandated and chartered as a polytechnical university by the Philippine government to provide undergraduate and graduate courses in technology education, agriculture, fishery, engineering, arts and sciences, forestry, business, health, computer, criminology, nautical and short-term vocational-technical and other continuing courses. It attained its university status in 2013 renaming it to its present name, the Iloilo Science and Technology University (ISAT-U). As a public research university, ISAT-U is also mandated to promote research, advanced studies, extension work and progressive leadership in its area of specialization. Its main campus is located in Burgos St., La Paz, Iloilo City with external campuses in Leon, Miag-ao, Barotac and Dumangas.

West Visayas State University (WVSU, referred to colloquially by locals as West; Filipino: Pamantasang Pampamahalaan ng Kanlurang Bisayas) is a public normal research university located in La Paz, Iloilo City, Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It was established in 1924 as Iloilo Normal School under the tutelage of the Thomasites, but dates back its founding in 1902 as a part of Philippine normal school system with Iloilo National High School established by the American colonial government. It later became West Visayas State College in 1965 and acquired its university status becoming West Visayas State University in 1986. The university is one of the accredited Philippine Universities of the University Mobility in Asia and the Pacific and one of the most prominent institutions in the Philippines in the field of Teacher Education, Nursing and Medicine.The West Visayas State University (WVSU) system is composed of the main campus, six external campuses (which are distinct from the main campus) and the WVSU Medical Center. The La Paz (main campus) is organized with an integrated laboratory school and twelve degree granting tertiary schools and colleges. In the collegiate level studies, the academic programs the university offers include Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Biology, Business Management, Cooperatives Management, Forestry, Hospitality Management, Information and Communications Technology, Mass Communication, Medicine, Nursing, Operations Management, Political Science, Public Administration, Physical Education, Teacher Education and Tourism. The Law program of the university under the newly established College of Law was opened in August 2020. It was later followed by the establishment of the College of Dentistry. The 2,000 hectare Mari-it Wildlife and Conservation Park which is managed as part of the 3,000 hectare WVSU College of Agriculture and Forestry campus in Lambunao, Iloilo, is the largest hornbill breeding facility in the world.The Philippine Commission on Higher Education has also designated the university through its main campus as National Center of Excellence in Teacher Education and National Center of Development in Nursing while the Lambunao Campus as National Centers of Development in the programs of Agriculture and Forestry.

West Visayas State University Medical Center (commonly referred to as WVSU Medical Center and WVSUMC but colloquially known as Don Benito) is a government owned hospital operated under the West Visayas State University. It was established in the 1940s after which when the Cacho family of Panay Electric Company (PECO) sold their property to the Philippine Women's College, then later to the Lopez family turning it into Don Benito Lopez Memorial Hospital (Don Benito Lopez Hospital). When West Visayas State College become a university through a presidential decree in 1986, the need for the university to have a laboratory hospital for its college of medicine students paved the way, resulting in 1987, for the government to purchase the Don Benito Lopez Memorial Hospital (Don Benito Lopez Hospital), turning it into West Visayas State University Medical Center.On November 29, 2001, the Department of Health of the Philippines - Bureau of Health Facilities and Services and the university's Board of Regents through approved the hospital's conversion to West Visayas State University Medical Center.A Level III public hospital, WVSU Medical Center healthcare services include out-patient, in-patient, ancillary and allied health medical services. It also serves as a laboratory hospital for the clinical training of WVSU's nursing and medicine students.It is subsequently forms as an auxiliary unit under the West Visayas State University but is autonomous in entity and management.

Iloilo Sports Complex, also known as the Iloilo Sports Center is a multi-use sports complex in La Paz, Iloilo City, Philippines and is the venue of athletic events in Iloilo province and Western Visayas and occasionally hosts large gatherings such as concerts. Its main stadium, the Main Stadium, has a seating capacity of 7,000.Iloilo Sports Complex includes an Olympic-size swimming pool, an oval running track, a football field, two volleyball courts, two basketball courts, two tennis courts and four badminton courts. An indoor gymnasium is located 200 meters away from the main site.The athletics track underwent repair in 2014 which costed ₱100 thousand though it had to be rehabilitated again due to the number of sporting events hosted by the venue. The sports venue had to be closed in October 2015 for renovation works. The ₱18 million rehabilitation was completed in December 2015. The athletics track was rubberized and had its lanes painted. The football field also had its grass switched to another type of Bermuda grass.It hosts the home matches of Iloilo F.A. football team. In February 2018, Kaya Futbol Club adopted the Iloilo Sports Complex as their home venue. Liga Futbol Inc., the organization that manages the Philippines Football League approved the usage of the field for league matches by Kaya on April 20, 2018. The club is set to play their first home league match against Global Cebu on May 2.

The Iloilo Mission Hospital (also known as Central Philippine University–Iloilo Mission Hospital or CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital), commonly referred to as Mission Hospital, Mission, CPU–IMH or IMH, is a private tertiary, academic and teaching hospital located in Jaro, Iloilo City, Philippines. Established in 1901 through the auspices of the Presbyterian Foreign Mission Board from the United States by the American missionary doctor, Joseph Andrew Hall, it is the "first and oldest American and Protestant founded hospital in the Philippines". It was originally named as Sabine Haines Memorial Union Mission Hospital in memory of Charles Haines's son, a New Yorker whose grant made possible for the founding of the hospital.CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital is also the first hospital for the soldiers and constabulary (the predecessor of Philippine National Police) during the American regime in the Philippines. In 1907, it formally changed its name to Union Mission Hospital when the Baptists joined the Presbyterians in administering the hospital as their joint-mission healthcare institution for medical work in Visayas. It was later ceded to the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society in 1925. In 1931, the hospital moved to its present site in the City of Jaro (now a district of Iloilo City), thus later in 1932, it was renamed to Iloilo Mission Hospital along with its nursing school.It pioneered the nursing education in the Philippine islands through the establishment of the Union Mission Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1906, the first school of nursing in the Philippines. It was later transferred and became an organic academic unit of Central Philippine University renaming it to its present name, the Central Philippine University College of Nursing. The nursing school's milestones include producing the first three nursing graduates, the first nursing board exam ranked number one topnotcher, and the first number one top performing school in the history of the nursing licensure examination, education, and profession in the Philippines.Operating as the university hospital of Central Philippine University, it is independent from it in entity and is operated and administered by a separate board of corporation and trustees. Iloilo Mission Hospital predates CPU's founding (founded in 1905) by four years.CPU–Iloilo Mission Hospital is a LEVEL III Department of Health of the Philippines accredited and licensed tertiary private hospital. It serves the community in general and as a teaching, training and laboratory hospital and facility for Central Philippine University in the medical fields and academic healthcare programs of Medicine, Nursing, Medical Technology, Physical Therapy, Medical Social Work, Pharmacy, Nutrition and Dietetics. The hospital's chaplaincy program on the other hand is served by the Central Philippine University College of Theology.In 2001, Iloilo Mission Hospital celebrated its centennial, commemorating its century of existence and its contribution since its founding in 1901 to the Philippine and American colonial history in the Philippines and in Asia as it pioneered the Nursing education in the Philippines, and as the First American and Protestant founded hospital in the country. As a commemoration to its centennial, the IMH Centennial Building was built as a monument to it along with the hospital's acquisition of the Philips MX8000 CT Scan machine, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. In May 2019, another milestone of the hospital in facilities upgrading, is the acquisition of the Siemens Healthineers ACUSON SEQUOIA Ultra-Premium Ultrasound Machine, also the first in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia.Iloilo Mission Hospital is accredited also for residency training program in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology and with Family Medicine and Surgery. At present, though founded originally by the Presbyterians, the hospital is subsequently affiliated with the Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches but remains independent.

Angelicum School Iloilo is a private, Catholic school run by the Philippine Dominican Province of the Order of Preachers in Iloilo City, Philippines. It is one of the three Angelicum Schools established by Fr. Rogelio B. Alarcon, O.P. in the 1970s that pioneered in a non-graded, open-classroom education system in the Philippines. The school is also known for the Lizares Mansion, former heritage house turned school building which stands in the school's campus. It is one of Iloilo's imposing landmarks. The school grounds and the mansion lights up during the Christmas season with a grand opening called "Daigon Slash Sigaboom."

Assumption Iloilo (also known as AC or Assumption Convent) is a private Catholic coeducational basic education institution run by the Sisters of the Religious of the Assumption in Iloilo City, Philippines. It was founded by the Assumption Sisters in 1910. It offers preschool, grade school, and high school education for males and females.

Saint Paul University Iloilo, also referred to as SPU Iloilo, St. Paul, St. Paul's or by its acronym SPUI, is a private Catholic basic and higher education institution run by the Philippine Province of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres in Iloilo City, Iloilo, Philippines. It is one of the six campuses comprising the Saint Paul University System. It was founded in 1946 by the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres from France with the help of American Catholics. It presently offers academic programs in basic education, tertiary and post-graduate studies in the fields of information technology, teacher education, business, accountancy, liberal studies, nursing, and physical therapy. At present though SPUI form part of the Saint Paul University System, it remains distinctively independent with its own administration.

Injap Tower Hotel is a 21-storey residential building and hotel located in Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue, Mandurriao, Iloilo City beside SM City Iloilo. Since its completion in 2013, it has been the tallest building in Iloilo City until 2018, when it was dethroned by the nearby 18-storey high-rise twin tower, SM Strata Tower 1, which is just 9 meters taller. Injap Tower was also the tallest building in the Western Visayas region for the same years. It is the region's tallest hotel, and currently the third tallest building in Iloilo.The Horizon Café, a restaurant is situated on the top floor of the Injap Tower. The hotel also hosts a spa dubbed as the "Spa Circle".

SM City Iloilo is a large shopping mall in the Philippines, owned and operated by SM Prime Holdings. It is the 8th SM Supermall built by Henry Sy Sr. It is located along Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. Avenue (formerly Jaro West Diversion Road) in the district of Mandurriao in Iloilo City. It has a land area of 170,000 m2 (1,800,000 sq ft) and a total gross floor area of 181,657 m2 (1,955,340 sq ft).

SM Delgado is a department store owned by SM Land Inc. and operated by Metro Manila Shopping Mecca Corporation, the same arm of the SM Group that operate the branches at SM City Manila and SM City Santa Rosa. It is the oldest SM branch outside Metro Manila. It is located within Iloilo City's commercial district along Delgado and Valeria Streets. It first opened in May 1979 and was relaunched in December 2004. It is the forth SM Department Store built by Henry Sy Sr. and the first branch opened outside Metro Manila. SM Supermarket was conceptualized and opened its store at SM Delgado in 1985. The mall was relaunched in 2004.