THANK YOU SO MUCH to Mabinay Mayor Jango Uy Myla Mae Bromo-Abellana & Provincial Tourism Office staff, Sir Gary & Mabinay Tourism office, Department of Tourism Central Visayas staff & Rowena Lu Y. Montecillo for the warm reception and thank sa akong favorite Turmeric Tea. God bless u all. Resource Speaker on the Topic " Negros Oriental History with Arts & Culture History " Eco- Guide Training for cave guides Nov .25,2015 Function Hall ,Mabinay Spring Resort

1. Local History of Negros Oriental
Josefino T. Larena Jr. ,CPS,CPE,MPA

2. Old Map of Negros 1572

3. Old name of Negros
• When the Spanish explorers landed in Negros
Oriental in 1565, they found natives who
called the place “Buglas”, named after a kind
of tall grass resembling the present-day sugar
cane plant. Buglas grass was then abundantly
growing in the island.
• He black natives called Ata or Agta (Negrito)
and the Proto-Malay also known
as Bukidnon with dark brown skin.

5. Founder of Negros
It was only in 1571 or fifty years later
when Legazpi came that the Spaniards
discovered the island of Negros.

6. Spanish Era

7. Agriculture Development in 1850

8. Coming of the Mexicans in the 17th
century

9. Negros Oriental Revolution

11. American Rule

12. • Suffrage

13. Contribution of American Era in
Negros Oriental
• American Education
• Protestantism
• Educational System
• Humanities & Sciences
• Public Administration
• Urban Planning
• Forest management
• Suffrage
• English Language

15. Government of Negros Oriental during
American Period

16. First Sugar Central in Asia 1918

18. Sen Bindoy Teves Villanueva

19. Japanese Era

20. Negros /Dumaguete Underground
Movement
Jovenal Somoza Eduardo Blanco

21. Post War Era

22. Post War Era Education
• Foundation College now Foundation
University in 1948

24. Negrense Society after the War

25. Martial Law

26. Martial Law Literature
• Elsa Victoria Martinez Coscolluela is the only
Filipino dramatist in Palanca’s Hall of Fame

27. Buglasan Festival since 1980s

28. Edsa Revolution

29. Post Edsa Revolution

30. Tourism Development

31. Macias Administration

32. Gov. Roel Ragay Degamo

33. Degamo Administration

34. Negros Island Region

35. Dumaguete City Mayor Manuel Teves Sagarbarria with our sister City
Mayors- Trish Herrera Spencer of Alameda City and Park Se-bok of
Yeongdong, South Korea

36. Making a History in 2016

38. Thank you so much