Binalbagan

Binalbagan lies on the western coast of Negros, facing the waters between the island and Panay. Known earlier as Inabangan, it was among the first settlements on Negros drawn into the Spanish mission system in the sixteenth century. Augustinian missionaries worked there with Ilog as an outstation, and a Recollect convent was established in 1622. The coastal communities had long maintained connections across the narrow sea to neighbouring Panay, from which the early missionaries also came.