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unusual facts about Negros


Land reform in the Philippines

As the 19th Century progressed, industrialization and liberalization of trade allowed these encomiendas to expand their cash crops, establishing a strong sugar industry in the Philippines on such islands and Panay and Negros.


Afro-Paraguayans

As already mentioned, there are three communities of Afro - Paraguayan: the Kamba Cuá, in the Central Department (outside Asuncion), Kamba Kokue, meaning "chacra de negros" (farm of blacks) in Guarani language, and is situated in the Paraguarí Department, and Emboscada, in the Cordillera Department.

Beto Mendoza y los Pajaros Negros

Beto Mendoza y los Pajaros Negros's early material is compared to acts such as Los Tres, Enrique Bunbury, José Alfredo Jiménez, Lila Downs, Eric Clapton kind of Blues and Caifanes.

Carlos Hilado Memorial State College

On November 24, 2000, Carlos Hilado Memorial State College acquired another satellite campus with the integration of the Negros Occidental School of Fisheries in Binalbagan, Negros Occidental into the state college.

Elsa Martinez Coscolluela

As an academician she held the position of Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of St. La Salle in Bacolod City and also manages annual Negros Summer Workshops for artists and writers with Peque Gallaga since 1991.

Giant golden-crowned flying fox

Recent surveys have found A. jubatus roosting with P. vampyrus on the islands of Bohol, Boracay, Cebu, Leyte, Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Negros and Polillo.

Guimaras oil spill

In the south-southeast of the spill site is located the Sulu Sea, a deep-water area frequented by commercially valued fish such as Blue marlin and the Yellowfin tuna, prized by the towns of southern Negros Occidental province as an important source of income for the communities.

Indigo-banded Kingfisher

There are two subspecies, the nominate race, which occurs on Luzon, Polillo, Mindoro, Sibuyan and Ticao, and A. c. nigriostris, which is found in Panay, Negros and Cebu.

José Juan Vázquez

Vázquez began playing football professionally at the age of 19 in fourth and third divisions of Mexico with teams such as Atlético San Francisco and Atlético Comonfort in the fourth division, and for Cuervos Negros de Zapotlanejo, América Manzanillo, and finally his home town team Celaya in the third division.

La Consolacion College–Bacolod

Modesto P. Sa-onoy - renowned historian of Bacolod and Negros Occidental

Marine Aircraft Group 14

During fighting in the Philippines the Group was responsible for covering convoys and supporting Army and Filipino guerillas on the islands of Negros, Mindanao, Cebu and Leyte.

Negros Fruit Dove

Some authors have suggested that the specimen was either a runt of either the Yellow-breasted Fruit Dove or a Treron pigeon, or a hybrid instead of a unique species; however, these views are generally considered invalid due in part to the distinctiveness of the specimen, particularly in the bare skin around the eye, and no proper evidence has suggested that the Negros Fruit Dove is an invalid species.

Negros Occidental High School

Sometime in 1902, former leaders of the Republica de Negros, Ex-minister of Justice Antonio Ledesma Jayme and Ex-provincial Governor Melecio Severino exerted efforts for the opening of the a secondary school in Occidental Negros which they named Instituto Rizal, now Negros Occidental High School.

Office of the Military Advisor to the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines

The office drew up defense plans for the islands of Luzon, Cebu, Negros, Panay, Leyte, Mindanao, Bohol, Mindoro, and many of the smaller islands.

Panay Liberation Day

The planners chose to seize the western portion, including northwestern Negros and Panay island, during Operation VICTOR I. Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, the Eighth Army commander, appointed the 40th Infantry Division, a California National Guard formation and veterans of the recent Battle of Luzon, under Maj. Gen. Rapp Brush, with the 503rd Airborne Regimental Combat Team in reserve.

Pryde Henry Teves

After 35 days or on December 18, 2007, Negros Oriental Rep. Pryde Henry Teves was moved out of the intensive care unit of St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City to a private room thereat, and recuperated from destroyed eardrum, fractured leg and sustained deep burns in his arms from the Batasang Pambansa bombing.

Rural Bank of Marayo

It has two other branches located at E.B. Magalona, Negros Occidental and with its acquisition of the branch of the Rural Bank of Barotac Nuevo in Banate, Iloilo.

and Banate Iloilo, Rural Bank of Marayo has helped in the development of the town of Banate in Iloilo and its home town in Pontevedra Negros Occidental.

Sagay, Negros Occidental

On July 26, 1942 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt of the United States of America ordered a national mobilization in the Philippines and on August 23, 1942, the first group of reservist in Negros were called on duty by virtue of Philippine Army HQ order of August 4 and they were trained here.

Visayan Hornbill

The Visayan Hornbill (Penelopides panini) is a hornbill found in rainforests on the islands of Panay, Negros, Masbate, and Guimaras, and formerly Ticao, in the Philippines.


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