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Negros Oriental directory

- will serve as a guide for the local and foreign visitors who wants to visit the province. With the list of significant places around the province, people can easily locate and establish an idea where to stay during the vacation. As the province belongs to the improving places in the country it will be good enough to arrange some important information to make things easy to the public who wants to have a trip in the province.

History

Negros Island was originally called “Buglas”, an old native word that is thought to mean “cut-off.” 

It is believed that Negros was once part of a greater mass of land but was cut-off either by what geologists call a continental drift or by rising waters during the so-called glacial age.

Among its earliest inhabitants were dark-skinned natives belonging to the Negrito ethnic group with their unique culture. Thus, the Spaniards called the land “Negros” after the black natives whom they saw when they first came the the island in April 1565.  Two of the earliest native settlements were Binalbagan and Ilog, that later became towns in 1573 and 1584, respectively. Other settlements were Hinigaran, Bago, Marayo (now Pontevedra), Mamalan (now Himamaylan) and Candaguit (now a sitio in San Enrique).

 

Negros Occidental directory

-will serve as a guide for the local and foreign visitors who wants to visit the province. With the list of significant places around the province, people can easily locate and establish an idea where to stay during the vacation. As the province belongs to the improving places in the country it will be good enough to arrange some important information to make things easy to the public who wants to have a trip in the province.