BAGUIO CITY, March 23 -- he city government and the municipality of Tuba in Benguet have reached an agreement on a swap deal involving parcels of land that each owns but lies within the other's political jurisdiction, seeing an end to a century-old boundary dispute.

Both parties agreed to adopt the scheme worked out by a joint technical working group formed by the two local government units (LGUs) and completed after more than a year, following a series of discussions, technical reviews and negotiations.

"It is finally over after more than a century," Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong said in an interview on Monday.

Under the scheme, Baguio would cede parcels of land occupied by Tuba's elementary and high schools and its municipal bu...