Cadiz
City,Philippines is located at the Northern tip of the Island of
Negros, sprawling over 69,000 hectares of land area, it is a 50-minute
drive from Bacolod City. Four hours drive from Cebu City and a 2-hour
ferry ride away from Bantayan Island. It is a springboard to Eastern
Visayas and Mindanao. Cadiz City, is the future growth center of
Negros Occidental.
Cadiz traces it beginning to the establishment of a trading colony
near the seacoast now known as Cadiz Viejo. The colony began to
expand so that the settlement was built near the bank of the Hitalon
River. According to historical records, in 1861 the Spaniards came
and named the settlement Cadiz. This was so, because it reminded
them of a seaport named Cadiz in Spain.
