A geography of 7,016 fractured islands, even at low tide, has pay-offs. It offers insights into how potentials for 21st century advance is sapped by 19th century misrule. Mactan Island is an example.
Cross one of two bridges, spanning the narrow Mactan channel from Cebu. And you’re in Lapu-Lapu city -- a burg of 292,530 people, the flawed 2007 census claims.
Natives bushwhacked the explorer Ferdinand Magellan here in 1521. Today, Lapu-Lapu hosts 142 factories in economic zones. Watches, computers, etc. account for 9 percent of our exports. Over 40 thousand workers shove daytime population density to 3,581 persons per square kilometer. One out of four have college degrees.
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