Business Permit
We guide new business, renewal, amendment, retirement, inspection coordination, and compliance preparation through the official eLGU-BPLS path so entrepreneurs know what to prepare before submitting.
Start requestWe are a highly urbanized city and the regional center of Western Visayas
We are Iloilo City: ready to serve, prepared for risk, and open for opportunity.
We bring city services, trusted advisories, emergency guidance, visitor information, and investment support into one clear public front door for Ilonggos, businesses, visitors, students, workers, and partner agencies.
473,7282024 POPCEN population
180Barangays
7Districts
1stIncome class
Citizen Services
We put the most-used city transactions one tap away.
We make our services easier to find before you need to know which office handles them. From this hub, residents, entrepreneurs, visitors, suppliers, and investors can reach BPLS, OBO forms, civil-registry guidance, CDRRMO hotlines, transparency documents, tourism information, directories, careers, and public feedback channels with clearer preparation steps.
Building and Occupancy
We help homeowners, contractors, architects, and business owners understand OBO requirements for building permits, occupancy, electrical work, demolition, billboards, and older structures.
Open OBO flowCivil Registry
We organize birth, marriage, death, certification, correction, endorsement, appointment, authorization, and overseas-request guidance around the life event you need to complete.
Prepare requestDisaster and Emergency
We connect households, schools, offices, events, and barangays to CDRRMO hotlines, hazard reporting, evacuation guidance, ICARE center context, and alerts that explain what to do next.
Open disaster hubCommunity Reporting
Tell us about local issues, receive a tracking number, view public status, and follow category, district, hotspot, backlog, and response-time trends without exposing private contact details.
Open reporting platformTransparency
We publish clearer access points for the Transparency Seal, Full Disclosure Policy, Citizen's Charter, procurement, PPP projects, budgets, public notices, careers, and office directories.
View recordsInvest in Iloilo
We help investors understand sector fit, workforce, livability, resilience, site visit requests, BPLS routing, PPP interest, MICE, gastronomy, and local enterprise support.
Open investor pageWhy Iloilo Works
We are a livable regional capital with culture, commerce, and governance momentum.
We serve as a first-income-class highly urbanized city, the regional center of Western Visayas, and a hub for government, education, health care, logistics, finance, food, tourism, and MICE. Across our districts, we bring together heritage plazas, riverfront public space, business districts, universities, hospitals, ports, and airport access through the wider Iloilo metro corridor.
78.34 km2official land area
UNESCOCreative City of Gastronomy
ICAREresilience-center network
Our commitment
We serve Ilonggos faster, keep our city ready, and make Iloilo easier to choose for investors, visitors, and partners.
- Resident-first services and requirements.
- Clear official portal handoffs.
- Current advisories, not buried posts.
- Investment and tourism stories grounded in real strengths.
Online Services
We connect your request to the right official channel.
When you start a request here, we prepare a clean service packet, save a local reference number, and route you to the correct official destination: eLGU-BPLS for business permits, OBO forms for building transactions, CDRRMO for emergency coordination, or city contact channels for other services.
- Structured category, district, barangay, contact, and request details.
- Service-specific official portal routing with query-ready payload.
- Tracking that keeps your request details organized while we connect official systems securely.
Directory
Search our city services by need, not by office name.
We organize services around the way people ask for help: permits, tax, health, social support, hazards, tourism, employment, documents, and investment.
Current Events and Advisories
We keep citizens informed with timely, source-linked updates.
CDRRMO weather and emergency updates
We surface CDRRMO weather advisories, quick-call emergency numbers, and public safety information in a visible resident action center.
Iloilo represented urban best practices globally
We continue to share Iloilo's local governance reforms and city initiatives in national and international forums, including the World Cities Summit.
Sustainable urban development recognition
We welcomed recognition for sustainable urban development, with emphasis on resilience, environment, mobility, and people-centered governance.
Dinagyang brought culture, tourism, and commerce together
We brought culture, faith, food, tourism, and commerce together through Dinagyang activities including the opening salvo, food festival, religious events, streetdance, fluvial procession, lights parade, Kasadyahan, and festival highlights.
History and Culture
We tell Iloilo's story as a living city, not only a destination.
We connect our origin story, district identities, gastronomy, heritage districts, riverfront public spaces, and festivals so residents, students, visitors, and cultural partners can understand why Iloilo feels distinct and why these places deserve protection.
From Irong-Irong and early trade to La Muy Noble Ciudad de Iloilo, our history explains the city's port, commerce, faith, education, district pride, and civic confidence.
We connect La Paz batchoy, Pancit Molo, KBL, seafood, markets, producers, bakeries, culinary schools, and food entrepreneurs to a UNESCO-recognized identity.
Calle Real, Molo, Jaro, plazas, churches, mansions, museums, old commercial streets, and civic architecture give visitors and residents a citywide heritage network.
Visit Iloilo
We make the city easy to explore, responsibly and confidently.
We present tourism, culture, transport, public space, events, emergency guidance, and local-enterprise opportunities together so visitors can plan with confidence and respect local communities.
News, Events, and Video Previews
We bring official posts and event videos into the city portal experience.
Instead of plain text links, we preview official Facebook posts and public videos so residents and visitors can quickly recognize events, advisories, and city stories.
Facebook
Guide to Iloilo Dinagyang 2026
Official guide post for festival dates, theme, and visitor information.
Facebook video
Discover Iloilo City
A city tourism video about visiting, moving, recharging, and experiencing Iloilo.
YouTube
Dinagyang Festival 2026 Highlights
Video preview of festival performances, movement, and visitor energy.
Trust and Transparency
We keep public records visible from the homepage.
We provide clear access to citizen charters, online services, full disclosure, procurement, public-private partnership information, public notices, and feedback channels so you can review government information faster.