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Los BaƱos
Philippines
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Los BaƱos, resort town, southwestern Luzon, Philippines. Near the southern shore of Laguna de Bay, it was named Los BaƱos (āThe Bathsā) for the thermal springs that flow from the base of Mount Makiling. The waters are piped into the townās numerous hotels.
Los BaƱos was the site of a U.S. air base and later, during World War II, of a Japanese concentration camp that was captured by U.S. forces on February 23, 1945. It is the site of the College of Agriculture of the University of the Philippines. In the 1960s the International Rice Research Institute, headquartered there, developed IR8, a high-yielding strain that significantly increased rice production. Pop. (2000) 82,027; (2010) 101,884.
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