San Carlos City Interactive - Philippines

Fragments of written history show that in 1856, the island of Negros as a politico-military province under Spain, was divided into two provinces, the West Negros under Iloilo and the East Negros under Cebu. The barrio of Nabingkalan under Calatrava, was under the jurisdiction of Iloilo. During the first years of the American jurisdiction of the Philippines, the economic and social phase of the activities of the people was gauged on the movements of the big landholders and spaniards in the lowlands. In 1903, the political arena was a hot place, it is being the first taste of the Filipinos to elect their own leader. Since then, the following elections were always a sensational political drama