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Negros Island is the fourth largest island in the Philippines and its major city Bacolod is the fourth largest city
in the Philippines. Negros Island is located in the middle of the Philippine Islands in the Visayan Islands between two other
large Visayan islands Cebu and Panay, and Negros is just north of Mindanao Island. The island is divided into two provinces:
Occidental Negros and Oriental Negros (recently ranked by Islands Magazine as one of the top 20 islands in the world for foreigners to live on). The Philippines' largest cave---Odloman Cave---is located in Mabinay in the middle of Negros Island.

Child-friendly Bago City is a 1st class city in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 141,721 people in 27,965 households.

Bago is an Agri-industrial City, endowed with vast and long stretch of rolling plains-carpeted with rice, sugarcane, corn, coconut, fruit trees, and other high value crops. Its enchanting mountains provide a view of splendid scenery, a home of mystic caves, lakes and cascading waterfalls, atop these nature’s beauty is the fact that it is a home of hospitable people, whose race has colorful history and culture.

Of recent time, it is the seat of a stable leadership, of good governance, of acclaimed socio-economic and political programs and activities that make the City a highly regarded local government, as reflected by the many citation, awards and recognitions earned from local, national and international institutions and groups.

As a tourist destination, Bago City boasts of the many attractions it can offer-from the communion with nature at the cool breeze of Rafael Salas Park and Nature Center; to the spectacle of panoramic sceneries viewed at Buenos Aires Mountain Resort; to the gasping sights of the cascading waterfalls and flora at the height of the viewing deck of the Kipot Twin Falls; to the warmth of sea breeze, a calmly sight of sunset and the rustling of waves in the beach resorts; to an immersion down memory lane in various historical sites and structures that brings back the nostalgia of a glorious history of the Bagueños. Truly, a tour in Bago City is a life-enriching experience.

As an insvestment center, Bago City is a model of agri-industrial development. It offers good entrepreneurial site for the utilization its agricultural products, dedicated and industrious human resources. An access to sea farming crafts and a well developed road networks. It is also a host to geothermal resources which is presently explored and developed by the Philippine National Oil Company – Energy Development Corporation. With the congestion of the City Bacolod as primary commercial center of the Province, Bago City provides a vast area for expansion and an inviting investment potential. The economic success of existing manufacturing industries such as the Mt. Kanla-on and the Alter Trade Manufacturing Corporation among others, prove that indeed Bago City is a potential haven for investments.

As an institution, Bago City has proven itself as an achieving government. Through the years, amidst the challenge of a limited term of office by its local leaders, the City Government has maintained and sustained a common goal, devoid of the envy of politics, but driven by the commitment to bring about public good and general welfare. With sense of sustainability of all it laudable programs and projects, Bago City has been reaping the fruits of years of hard work, commitment and unity as one community and people in the various achievements and wards it earned.

As a city and people, Bago City has been a recipient of various awards in the implementation of programs and in the delivery of basic social and health services to the constituency. The Bago City Police Office had been adjudged as the Outstanding Police Office in the country and recently was also awarded as the most Outstanding Citizen-Friendly Police Office in the country. The City is also a recipient of the national Awardees as an Outstanding Accredited Agency by the Civil Service Commission. It was also cited as a Green banner Awardee in the field of nutrition implementation.

Of notables, it has produced many legends and great names in sports, particularly in athletics and boxing that had brought honor to the City and Country in various national and international competitions. At one point, Bago City as known as the Boxing Capital of the Philippines’ owing to the great names it produced in boxing like Leopoldo Cantancio, Reynaldo Galido, Roel Velasco, Mansueto “Onyok “ Velasco, Jr. and many others. To date there are still boxers from the City who are undergoing training with the national pool in Manila.

All these taken as a whole, had given Bago, a “Child-Friendly City Award” in the component City Category.

Bago City is politically subdivided into 24 barangays:

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