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unusual facts about San Carlos, Negros Occidental



2008 PBA All-Star Weekend

The events were held from April 24 to 27, 2008 at the West Negros University Gym, Bacolod City, Negros Occidental.

2009 PBA All-Star Weekend

This year's all-star game will be totally different from the past All-Star games, as this year's event will have 3 all-star games in different cities, particularly: Victorias, Negros Occidental (April 22), Panabo, Davao del Norte (April 24), and Quezon City (April 26).

2011 POC-PSC National Games

The 2011 POC-PSC National Games was held at the cities of Bacolod, Bago, Silay and Talisay - Negros Occidental Province from May 22–29, 2011.

847 Naval Air Squadron

The squadron's Wessexes, together with those of 845 NAS initially operated from San Carlos and provided much needed transport support to the advance of British forces on Port Stanley, with forward operating bases being set up at Teal Inlet and Fitzroy.

Adam Tafralis

During the 2010 offseason, Tafralis worked as a trainer for John Paye at Paye's Sports Performance in San Carlos, CA.

Afzelia rhomboidea

Manuel L. Quezon during the inauguration of Bacolod City, Negros Occidental Philippines as a charter city on October 19, 1938 with Mayor Alfredo Montelibano and Gov. Valeriano Gatuslao.

Alex Lacson

When asked whether he thought the association with the Lacson family name was an advantage or disadvantage for him, Lacson said that he considered it an advantage, citing the long history of Lacsons who have been involved in public service in the Philippines, including former Manila mayor Arsenio Lacson, Philippine Revolutionary War hero Aniceto Lacson, and the numerous Lacsons who have served in various capacities in Negros Occidental.

Alfonso A. Ossorio

Alfonso A. Ossorio (1916–1990) was an abstract expressionist artist who was born in Manila in 1916 to wealthy Filipino parents from the province of Negros Occidental.

Amomongo

Residents of La Castellana in Negros Occidental refer to the creature as a "wild monkey" that lives in caves near the foot of Mt. Kanlaon.

Asdrúbal Fontes Bayardo

In the 1960s he was a concessionaire for General Motors in Pan de Azúcar, San Carlos and Maldonado, and was a director on the board of a company producing Opel-based pick-up trucks in Pan de Azucar under the name of "Marina".

Avianca Nicaragua

Avianca Nicaragua operates scheduled services to the following domestic destinations: Bluefields, Bonanza, Corn Islands, Managua, Puerto Cabezas, Rosita, San Carlos, Siuna and Waspam.

Berean Christian Academy

Location: Don Pedro Yulo Street, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, Philippines, 6107.

Bravo November

While the co-pilot door was missing, the crew of Bravo November were unable to navigate or communicate with other forces, Bravo November returned to San Carlos for damage inspection.

Carlos Hilado Memorial State College

Carlos Hilado Memorial State College (CHMSC) is a public, state-owned college, the main campus of which is in Talisay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

Ceres F.C.

Ceres F.C. also known as Ceres-La Salle F.C. is a Filipino association football club based in Bacolod, Negros Occidental and a member of Negros Occidental Football Association.

Copa Rommel Fernández

West Panama includes the districts that are over the Bridge of the Americas (Arraiján, La Chorrera, Chame and San Carlos).

Corporate Air Services HPF821

It crashed near San Carlos, Río San Juan, killing three of its four crew; the fourth, Eugene Hasenfus, had parachuted to safety, but was captured within 24 hours.

Crocodile farming in the Philippines

The PWRCC sold saltwater crocodile products to seven "authorized commercial operators" in the regions of Luzon (particularly in Batangas, Cavite, Rizal, and Tarlac), Visayas (such as in Negros Occidental), and Mindanao (including Cagayan de Oro and Davao del Norte).

Dagul

He was born in Victorias City, Negros Occidental on October 5, 1958 and is married with 3 children.

Dodie Boy Peñalosa

Diosdado "Dodie Boy" Peñalosa (born November 19, 1962, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental Philippines) is a retired Filipino boxer and a former IBF champion in the light flyweight and flyweight classes.

Falkland Sound

The Spanish name "Estrecho de San Carlos" refers to the ship San Carlos which visited in 1768; confusingly the English name "San Carlos Water" is a much smaller inlet on East Falkland - and gives its name to San Carlos, Port San Carlos and the San Carlos River.

Fort Rosalie-class replenishment ship

Both ships saw service in the Falklands War, the then Fort Grange being shadowed by Argentine Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft while still 1,000 nm from the combat area and Fort Austin being attacked while sitting in San Carlos Water.

Francisco Antonino Vidal

Francisco Antonino Vidal (1825–1889) was born in San Carlos, Uruguay, in Maldonado Department, and was a senator and two-time president of Uruguay.

Hernán Menosse

Born in San Carlos, Menosse played youth football with local CA Libertad, making his senior debuts in 2007–08 season.

José Néstor Lencinas

Born in San Carlos, Mendoza, Lencinas enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires; while in law school, his adviser, Dr. Carlos Tejedor, recommended he transfer to the University of Córdoba.

Leopoldo Salcedo

Salcedo's most famous role came in 1961, when he starred as the titular character in Gerry de Leon's The Moises Padilla Story, a film biography of a Negros Occidental mayoral candidate who in 1951, was tortured and murdered by the private army of the provincial governor after he had refused to withdraw his candidacy.

Loaded march

After landing with 40 Commando at San Carlos, Holdgate accompanied British forces across the Falklands War zone taking hundreds of photographs.

Operation Sutton

During the 1982 Falklands War, Operation Sutton was the British landings on the shores of San Carlos Water, at Ajax Bay and Port San Carlos, near the San Carlos on East Falkland.

Palaris Revolt

He was born in Barrio Coliling, San Carlos City, Pangasinan, in the year 1733, third in a family of five, with three brothers and one sister.

Palcazu River

It originates at the confluence of the Bocaz and Cacazú rivers which are born in the mountains of the mountain range of San Carlos.

Reynogüelén

Reynogüelén, also spelled Reinogüelén, Reinohuelén, and Reynohuelén, was the original Mapudungun name of the eastern regions of what are now the communes of Parral in Linares Province, and Ñiquén, and San Carlos communes in the Ñuble Province of the Biobio Region of Chile.

San Carlos Water

The settlements of San Carlos and Port San Carlos on the Water, as well as San Carlos River, all take their names from the ship San Carlos, which visited in 1768.

San Carlos, Chile

San Carlos is bordered on the west by the commune of Ninhue, on the north by Ñiquén and Cauquenes (the latter in Cauquenes Province), on the east by San Fabián, and on the south by San Nicolás, Chillán and Coihueco.

Today, San Carlos is the second most populous city of Ñuble Province.

San Carlos, Negros Occidental

Located along the coast of Tañon Strait, the city is located at the crossroads of four major cities in the Visayas: Cebu City, Bacolod City, Iloilo City and Dumaguete City.

San Carlos, Pangasinan

Case Unclosed: Murder Informations were filed against Angelito Soriano, Cesar de Guzman (alias Kabesa) and 2 John Does on May 2, 2007 in the April 28, 2007, 10:15 p.m. assassination of San Carlos City Mayor Julian Resuello and his civilian aide inside the city plaza as he was shaking hands with the audience at the city plaza during the coronation night for the city fiesta queen during a fiesta ball.

San Carlos, Río San Juan

The Solentiname Islands in Lake Nicaragua are part of the Municipality of San Carlos.

San Carlos, Uruguay

Its name is originated from that of the King of Spain at the time, Charles III.

It was founded on October 1763 by the Spanish Governor Pedro Antonio de Cevallos, to discourage the foundation of Portuguese settlements in the region.

Scola Guadalupana

Scola Guadalupana (Scola La Salle) is a De La Salle-supervised private school in Capitol Heights Phase 2, Villamonte, Bacolod, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

Sequoia Union High School District

The Sequoia Union High School District is a public school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, primarily serving the communities of Atherton, Belmont, East Palo Alto, Ladera, San Carlos, Menlo Park, Portola Valley, Redwood City, and Woodside.

Ted Lempert

He, his wife Nicole, and their three young daughters live in San Carlos, California.

TV Patrol Negros

The program delivers news headlines about the current events in Negros Occidental in Hiligaynon language.


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