Zamboanguita is a 4th class municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 23,338 people in 4,691 households. Image File history File links Ph_locator_negros_oriental_zamboanguita. ... 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 Oriental is a province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region. ... This article is about the year 2000. ...
Barangays
Zamboanguita is politically subdivided into 10 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...
Negros Island, the fourth largest island in the Philippines, is believed to have once been part of the island of Mindanao, but was cut off either by continental drift or the rising waters at the end of the ice age.
Negros became a politico-militarty province in 1856 and the capital was transferred to Bacolod.
NegrosOriental's total population as of the 2000 census was 1,126,061, making it the 20th most populous province in the country.
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