The
Local Government Academy (LGA) is located at the University of the Philippines
at Los Baños (UPLB) campus on a rolling
terrain at the base of Mt. Makiling and bounded
on the North by Pili Creek; on the East by the
Molawin Creek; on the South by the first road
which runs perpendicular to a former coffee plantation
and near the International Rice Research Institute
(IRRI) staff housing. It is approximately about
sixty (60) kilometers or one and a half hours
ride south of Manila.