Bacong
Bacong | ||
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Municipality of Bacong | ||
Location within the Philippines | ||
Coordinates: 9°14′47″N 123°17′41″E / 9.246367°N 123.294811°E | ||
Country | Philippines | |
Region | Central Visayas | |
Province | Negros Oriental | |
District | 3rd district | |
Barangays | 22
(see Vice Mayor Jocelyn A. Alviola (LP) | |
• Representative | Arnolfo A. Teves Jr. | |
• Municipal Council | Members | |
• ZIP code | 6216 | |
PSGC | ||
IDD : area code | +63 (0)35 | |
Native languages | Cebuano Tagalog |
Bacong, officially the Municipality of Bacong, is a 4th class
Bacong was the hometown of the Visayan hero of the Philippine Revolution, Pantaleon Villegas, better known as León Kilat.
Bacong is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Dumaguete.
History
Bacong was founded 1801 as a coastal settlement. It is the Province's first town south of the Capital. The famed Church of San Agustin de Hippo and its monastery's construction was started in 1866 by Fray
Beginning the
Points of touristic interest are a string of beaches the length of the Bacong shoreline, sinamay hand looms, and the Negros Oriental Arts and Heritage (NOAH) which produces export quality stone craft furniture, jewel boxes and fashion accessories.
One of the town's bigger barangays, San Miguel, marks its local fiesta with a unique Sinulog de San Miguel, where the archangel and his heavenly army are depicted battling the forces of evil.[5]
Lawmakers have been proposing to transfer the province's airport from the town of Sibulan to Bacong since 2014, and is still pending final approval as of 2022.[6][7]
Geography
Barangays
Bacong is politically subdivided into 22
PSGC | Barangay | Population | ±% p.a. | |||
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2020[3] | 2010[8] | |||||
074603001 | Balayagmanok | 3.4% | 1,412 | 1,149 | 2.08% | |
074603002 | Banilad | 13.4% | 5,512 | 3,931 | 3.44% | |
074603003 | Buntis | 9.7% | 3,987 | 2,593 | 4.40% | |
074603004 | Buntod | 4.9% | 2,030 | 1,680 | 1.91% | |
074603005 | Calangag | 1.8% | 734 | 555 | 2.83% | |
074603006 | Combado | 9.1% | 3,759 | 2,072 | 6.14% | |
074603007 | Doldol | 2.7% | 1,097 | 913 | 1.85% | |
074603008 | Isugan | 4.6% | 1,910 | 1,341 | 3.60% | |
074603009 | Liptong | 2.9% | 1,185 | 781 | 4.26% | |
074603010 | Lutao | 3.1% | 1,298 | 1,087 | 1.79% | |
074603011 | Magsuhot | 0.9% | 384 | 340 | 1.22% | |
074603012 | Malabago | 0.9% | 368 | 331 | 1.07% | |
074603013 | Mampas | 1.0% | 431 | 175 | 9.43% | |
074603014 | North Poblacion | 2.5% | 1,011 | 995 | 0.16% | |
074603015 | Sacsac | 10.2% | 4,199 | 3,323 | 2.37% | |
074603016 | San Miguel | 11.6% | 4,762 | 4,101 | 1.51% | |
074603017 | South Poblacion | 3.6% | 1,492 | 1,576 | −0.55% | |
074603018 | Sulodpan | 4.2% | 1,712 | 1,457 | 1.63% | |
074603019 | Timbanga | 3.1% | 1,291 | 1,035 | 2.23% | |
074603020 | Timbao | 2.4% | 1,003 | 1,079 | −0.73% | |
074603021 | Tubod | 2.4% | 970 | 968 | 0.02% | |
074603022 | West Poblacion | 1.6% | 660 | 804 | −1.95% | |
Total | 41,207 | 32,286 | 2.47% |
Climate
Climate data for Bacong, Negros Oriental | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 30 (86) |
30 (86) |
31 (88) |
33 (91) |
32 (90) |
31 (88) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
29 (84) |
30 (86) |
30 (86) |
31 (87) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 22 (72) |
22 (72) |
22 (72) |
23 (73) |
24 (75) |
25 (77) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
24 (75) |
23 (73) |
23 (73) |
23 (74) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 26 (1.0) |
22 (0.9) |
28 (1.1) |
41 (1.6) |
95 (3.7) |
136 (5.4) |
147 (5.8) |
126 (5.0) |
132 (5.2) |
150 (5.9) |
98 (3.9) |
46 (1.8) |
1,047 (41.3) |
Average rainy days | 7.5 | 6.7 | 8.9 | 10.4 | 21.6 | 25.6 | 26.3 | 25.0 | 24.1 | 26.2 | 19.2 | 12.1 | 213.6 |
Source: Meteoblue (modeled/calculated data, not measured locally)[9] |
Demographics
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Source: Philippine Statistics Authority[10][8][11][12] |
Economy
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Education
The public schools in the town of Bacong are administered by one school district under the Schools Division of Negros Oriental.
Elementary schools:
- Bacong Central School — Roxas Street, West Poblacion
- Buntod Elementary School — Buntod
- Calangag Elementary School — Calangag
- Fausto M. Sarono - Tubod Elementary School — Tubod
- Isugan Elementary School — Isugan
- Nazario Tale Memorial Elementary School — Banilad
- Sacsac Elementary School — Sacsac
- San Miguel Elementary School — San Miguel
- Timbanga Elementary School — Timbanga
- Timbao Elementary School — Timbao
High schools:
- Buntod High School — Buntod
- Ong Che Tee - Bacong High School — Nat'l Highway, Sacsac
- San Miguel National High School — San Miguel
Private schools:
- Bacong Holy Family High School — Nat'l Highway, West Poblacion
- Divine Grace International Christian School — Buntis
- DLHOH Institute Learning Center — Nat'l Highway, North Poblacion
- Shine Bacong Christian Learning Center, Inc. — Combado
Sister Cities
- Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
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- ^ "ALTERNATE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: Why Bacong? pilot-legislators explain why…". Negros Chronicle. March 13, 2022.
- ^ a b Census of Population and Housing (2010). "Region VII (Central Visayas)" (PDF). Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. National Statistics Office. Retrieved 29 June 2016.
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