Binalbagan is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 58,280 people in 11,092 households. Binalbagan became a town in 1573 and was one of the two first settlements (the other one being Ilog). Binalbagan is known for BISCOM (Binalbagan Isabela Sugar Company). Image File history File links Ph_locator_negros_occidental_binalbagan. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Negros Occidental is a province of the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Officials
Mayor-Emmanuel I. Aranda
Vice Mayor-Jose G. Yulo
Barangays
Binalbagan is politically subdivided into 16 barangays. A barangay (Tagalog: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy), also known by its former name, the barrio, is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. ...
NegrosOccidental is strategically located on the western part of Negros Island, the fourth largest island in the Philippines nestled between Panay and Cebu.
Bounded by the Visayan Sea on the north, Negros Oriental on the east, Panay Gulf on the west and Tanon Strait on the south.
NegrosOccidental is accessible by plane from Manila and Cebu seven times daily and by sea from Iloilo, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Palawan and General Santos.
The Guimaras Strait separates the NegrosOccidental from the rest of the provinces of the Western Visayas Region and the irregular NegrosOccidental coastline is dotted with islands and lined with reefs.
By 1985, NegrosOccidental was the focus of a national and international effort to stem widespread famine caused by the slump.
Negros cuisine developed from this eagerness for festivity, though much of this remarkable cuisine is guarded jealously in family kitchens.
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