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The Battle of Mactan (Filipino: Labanan sa Mactan; Spanish: Batalla de Mactán) was fought on a beach in Mactan Island (now part of Cebu, Philippines) between Spanish forces led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan along with local allies, and Lapulapu, the chieftain of the island, on the early morning hours of April 27, 1521.
The Battle for Cebu City (Filipino: Labanan sa Lungsod ng Cebu; Cebuano: Gubat sa Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Japanese: セブシティーのための戦い) was a major engagement of World War II that occurred between March 26 and April 8, 1945, during the second Philippines Campaign.
The Mactan Newtown, is a 30-hectare (74-acre) mixed-use, master-planned central business district located in Lapu-Lapu City, Cebu, Philippines. [1] It is the first integrated township development built by Megaworld Corporation outside of Metro Manila, [2] and caters facilities and establishments such as condominiums, hotels, business process outsourcing office towers, a lifestyle mall, a ...
Cebu City, officially the City of Cebu (Cebuano: Dakbayan sa Sugbo; Filipino: Lungsod ng Cebu), is a highly urbanized city in the Central Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 964,169 people, [ 8 ] making it the sixth-most populated city in the nation and the most populous in the Visayas and the ...
The island is part of Cebu province and it is divided into the city of Lapu-Lapu and the municipality of Cordova. The island is separated from Cebu by the Mactan Channel which is presently crossed by three bridges: the Cebu–Cordova Link Expressway (CCLEX), the Mactan–Mandaue Bridge, and the Marcelo Fernan Bridge.
Metropolitan Cebu, or simply Metro Cebu (Cebuano: Kaulohang Sugbo; Filipino: Kalakhang Cebu), is the main urban center of the province of Cebu in the Philippines. Metro Cebu is located along the central eastern portion of the island including the nearby island of Mactan .
It has benefited from the economic rise of Cebu in the 1990s and 2000s, also known as Ceboom. Mactan–Cebu International Airport, the primary airport serving Cebu, is located in the city. The airport has direct routes with international destinations, including East and Southeast Asia. These connections have given way for tourism to emerge as a ...
Terminal 2 building of Mactan–Cebu International Airport. The CCLEX Bridge, completed in 2022, is the longest sea-crossing bridge in the Philippines. Mactan–Cebu International Airport (MCIA) on the island of Mactan serves as the main gateway to domestic and international routes to or from Cebu City and other islands in the Visayas region ...