Bágo

Bago belongs to Negros, the fourth largest island of the Philippines and one of the central Visayas' principal landmasses. The island is divided by a central mountain range, with volcanic peaks such as Kanlaon rising above the surrounding lowlands. Its position between Panay and Cebu channels maritime and later land traffic through coastal settlements, while the southern coast is recognised as one of the most important marine-biodiversity zones in the Coral Triangle.

Bago appears among the native settlements recorded after Spanish colonisation began. In April 1565 the Spanish reached Negros, and later accounts name Bago alongside places such as Binalbagan, Ilog, Hinigaran and Himamaylan. The settlement therefore belonged to an established island landscape of coastal communities, local agriculture and inter-island exchange before it became part of colonial administrative networks.

The later city of Bacolod lies here.