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Magsungay was a former constituent barangay until it was divided between Barangay Singcang, the location of the old airport, and numbered urban Barangays 10–16.Hence, Singcang is also alternatively called as "Magsungay," [3] [4] as the largest barangay occupying the territory of Magsungay, now roughly an informal city district.
The Spanish missionaries had placed Magsungay, the village that was the precursor of the modern city of Bacolod under the care and protection of Saint Sebastian sometime in the middle 1700s. Luis Fernando de Luna (1777-1779), a corregidor , donated a relic of the Saint for the growing mission, and the village came to be known as San Sebastian ...
Granada traces its earliest history during the height of the Moro raids in the Visayas when the settlement of Magsungay, the precursor of the present-day Bacolod, was abandoned after the attack by Moro forces under Datu Bantílan of Sulu on July 14, 1755.
Bacolod, officially the City ... into the status of a small town in 1575, [16] it had several religious dependencies and one of which was the village of Magsungay.
After the dissolution of the Republic of Negros, in 1902, petitions were made for the creation of new municipalities in Negros Occidental, particularly those of Murcia, Bago, and Bacolod. Under the reorganization initiated by the American Insular Government of the Philippine Islands. Sum-ag was incorporated as a barrio of Bacolod.
The Negros Island Region (NIR) [2] is an administrative region in the Philippines.Covering both the islands of Negros and Siquijor, the region is composed of three provinces: Negros Occidental, Negros Oriental, and Siquijor, as well as the highly urbanized city of Bacolod, which is the most populous in the region.
In 2017, the Panaad sa Negros Festival made it to the Hall of Fame of the ATOP-DOT Pearl Awards after it was adjudged by the Association of Tourism Officers of the Philippines as its Best Tourism Event in the Provincial Festival Category nationwide for the third consecutive year at the awards night held on October 6, 2017 at the Iloilo Convention Center in Iloilo City.
Poverty incidence of Negros Oriental 10 20 30 40 50 60 2006 42.93 2009 33.19 2012 50.06 2015 42.64 2018 25.55 2021 23.60 Source: Philippine Statistics Authority A geothermal power station in Valencia With its vast fertile land resources, Negros Oriental's other major industry is agriculture. The primary crops are sugarcane, sweetcorn, coconut and rice. In the coastal areas, fishing is the main ...