Negros Occidental
Negros Occidental ( German: West Negros ) is a province of the Philippines in the Western Visayas region. The provincial capital is Bacolod City. The population is 2,907,859 ( census May 1, 2010 ) and the area 7802.5 km ². It comprises a total of 13 parti essential urban cities and 17 larger municipalities. 80 % percent of all land is cultivated.
Geography
The province of Negros Occidental comprising the north and west of the island of Negros. The province is approximately 375 km long, extending from southwest to northeast. It is bounded by the Visayan Sea in the north, Panay Gulf and the Guimaras Strait to the west, Tanon Strait and Negros Oriental province on the east and the Sulu Sea to the southwest. The coast are superimposed several smaller islands, as the island Sipaway off the east coast or the west coast of Iceland Danjugan.
The north and west of the province form large extended gently undulating plains, the majority of which are used for agricultural purposes. The volcanic mountain range of the Marappa Mountains located in the northern center of the province, in the space are the volcanoes Silay and Mandalagan. South of the mountains is the 2,465 meter high volcano Kanlaon and the highest mountain in the Visayas is rising. In the east and south-west the topography of the province is determined by a series of flat mountain ranges and hilly plateaus that come up in the southwest to the coast line. In the southwest of the province is the water catchment area of the Ilog River, which forms a 50 km ² large delta at its mouth.
Climate
The province is located in the tropical climate zone and falls under the type of climate with a pronounced one stocking and rainy season. The dry season begins in December and ends in May and the rainy season starts in June and ends in November. The mean annual temperature is about 26 ° C, the warmest months are April and May. The coldest months are December, January and February.
History
The Negros Occidental province was created in 1734 as an independent Negros military district was the Spanish colonial administration, headquartered in Ilog (?). In 1795 the headquarters of the province was moved to Himamaylan to be laid in 1849 finally to Bacolod. By detaching the province of Negros Oriental on 1 January 1890, the province received its present boundaries.
The Spanish colonial rule was during the Philippine Revolution on November 5, 1898 By the Negri tables Revolutionary troops, led by General Aniceto Lacson and Juan Araneta, and ends the associated with them National Movement Katipunan. The then neugegründetete Cantonal Government of the Republic of Negros but was overthrown in May in 1898 by the invasion of the United States and established a provisional military administration. It was only on April 20, 1901 a civilian administration was reinstated by the colonial administration.
In the period of Japanese occupation in the Second World War, the military resistance of Gov was. Alfredo Montelibano organized. After the liberation of Negros in the Battle of the Visayas, 1945, the partly considerable damage on the island were gradually eliminated.
The socio-economic development of the province is crucially dependent on the cultivation and processing of sugar cane. Since the mid 19th century, more and more areas of the province for the cultivation of sugar cane were brought under cultivation. In the 1950s and 1960s, the province produced about 60 % of the total sugar production of the Philippines, which the province earned the nickname of sugar province and the province made highly dependent on the cultivation of sugar cane and its end products. This development led in the eighties to a socio-economic crisis in the province. In 1983, a long drought period to significant precipitation duck and 1984 were destroyed by the typhoon Undang Nitang and large parts of the harvest. Added to this was that the world market price of sugar plummeted, which in turn led to the decline of the social product and social impoverishment of the population. This process culminated in a referendum for secession of the province of Negros North, but which has been explained in the same year by the Constitutional Court of the Philippines annulled in 1986. Since 1987, a greater emphasis is placed on an ever broader diversification in the cultivation of agricultural crops in the agricultural sector in the province. In addition, the tourism sector is to be developed and also other industries to be located to minimize dependence on sugar cane and on.
Cities
- Bacolod City (regardless of the province )
- Bago City
- Cadiz City
- Escalante City
- Himamaylan City
- Kabankalan City
- La Carlota City
- Sagay City
- San Carlos City
- Silay City
- Sipalay City
- Talisay City
- Victorias City
Communities
- Binalbagan
- Calatrava
- Candoni
- Cauayan
- Enrique B. Magalona
- Hinigaran
- Hinoba - on
- Ilog
- Isabela
- La Castellana
- Manapla
- Moises Padilla
- Murcia
- Pontevedra
- Pulupandan
- Salvador Benedicto
- San Enrique
- Toboso
- Valladolid
National Parks and Nature Reserves
- Mount Kanlaon Natural Park
- Northern Negros Natural Park
- Sagay Marine Reserve
- Ilog - Hilabangan Watershed Forest Reserve
- Kabangkalan Watershed Forest Reserve