Iriga

Iriga, officially the City of Iriga or regarded really as Iriga City, is a 4th class metropolis within the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 111,757 human beings. It is located about 400 kilometres south-east of Manila, and approximately 33 kilometres south of Naga City. Barely third a century after Ferdinand Magellan located the Philippines on March sixteen, 1521, Iriga, now a town, changed into only a visita of Nabua, Provincia de Ambos Camarines.

Because of the disastrous floods that occur in the course of rainy seasons in suburban Poblacion of Nabua, Father Felix de Huertas, the then parish priest, recommended the farmers to transport to I-raga donde hay tierra or wherein there's land wherein they are able to plant their vegetation with out fear of being flooded. The flood victims of Nabua who moved earlier and followed the recommendations of their parish priest have been the lucky beneficiaries of the harvest of their agricultural plantation coming from the rich and fertile soils of I-raga, more so, individuals who planted on the foot of Sumagang Mountain stated to be nature's given image of the Iriguenos lofty ideals and noble visions.