Nineteenth-century chronicler Licinio Ruiz mentions Amblan, a settlement said to have been named after a superior kind of guava. The town was made a parish independent of Tanjay in 1848, was renamed New Ayuquitan in 1912, became Amlan after WW II. Read More

It is said that Ayungon is derived from the name of a deaf man, “Ayung,” who cut down a “dungon” tree. Read More

The Province’s first town to the south of the capital may be its smallest, but it has some big things going for it. Read More

Upon its separation from Bayawan in 1971, Basay became Oriental Negros’ southernmost town, with Negros Occidental at its rear. Read More

Oriental Negros’ lone municipality named after a native of distinction , Bindoy started out as barrio Payabon of Manjuyod. Read More

Origin of Name: There are three versions, the first two being interrelated; first, there was a majestic tree that towered over all trees that the Spaniards asked for its name, which was Calawin. Read More

Boundless sugar cane fields, typical of the northern landscape, green Jimalalud most months of the year. Read More

The early settlement was called Hinoba-an, a barrio of Jimalalud. One story has it renamed as La Libertad to mark the residents’ successful repulse of the marauding brigands that regularly plundered the north at that time. Read More

Folklore has it that the beautiful Binay fell in love with the son of her father’s rival chieftain. Her father ended the affair by having her lover killed. Read More

An Augustinian Recollect, Fr Antonio Moreno, is credited with creating Manjuyod: he spearheaded construction of its town hall, laid out the plaza and municipal streets. Read More

Barrio Tampa of Tanjay reminded the parish priest of his Pamplona hometown in Spain: Tampa spilled about the foot of  Cambunyao mountain just as Pamplona sprawls at the foot of the Pyrenees. Read More

Seven kilometers of attractive shoreline along Tañon Strait give San Jose two of the Province’s shortest take-off points to Cebu – Tampi and Jilocon, Read More

Miguel de Loarca, a member of the 1572 Legaspi expedition, was said to have encountered in the southern coast of Negros Island three warring settlements called Lunsod, Secopan and Cawitan. Read More

Often referred to as the rice bowl of the Province, Siaton’s terrain is more than flat paddies. Read More

Just next door to the capital, Sibulan is the site of important institutions and operations. Read More

Early Tayasan comprised a much larger area including the barrios of Ayung, Himbabalud and Hinoba-an, which eventually grew into the towns of Ayungon, Jimalalud and La Libertad, respectively. Read More

Nestled on the slopes of Mt Talinis, it used to be called Ermita (Spanish for a place of refuge, because this was where the natives retreated to during moro raids), Nueva Valencia (by a priest who was reminded of his Valencia hometown in Spain), and Luzurriaga (after a prominent local politician). Read More

No other town or city in the Province is as inextricably wed to its founder as Vallehermoso is to Diego de la Viña who, in 1881, carved what would become Negros Oriental’s northernmost town out of a valley called Bagawines, wilderness shunned for over three centuries as the habitat of unfriendly bukidnons. Read More

Every Wednesday a bustle of city folks, expats and guests of the Province drive into a Zamboanguita seaside to take in authentic rural scenes, feast on authentic native cuisine, and experience an authentic – if nontypical touristic – phenomenon called Malatapay., where livestock auctions, flea markets and al fresco seafood lunches compete for attention. Read More