A few members of the Philippine football team are from Negros: most notable is goalkeeper Eduard Sacapaño, a native of Bago City ; Lemuel Unabia and Jinggoy Valmayor of San Carlos City ; Reymark Fernandez of Victorias City ; Jake Morallo of West Negros University ; and ace striker Joshua Beloya of University of Saint La Salle.

Aside from its existing 170 megawatts capacity, Negros Island by the year 2006 has an additional 105 megawatts of locally produced power from geothermal plants in Bago City and Palinpinon, and from bagasse co-generation facility of First Farmers Sugar Mill.

: Bago City, Negros Occidental

At that time, the Moro tribal chieftain Datu Bago was in control of the area in what is now Davao City.

* Alianza ( barangay ) in Bago City, Philippines

Cristo, Bago Bantay, Quezon City in 1969.

Bago City is a 2nd class city in the province of Negros Occidental in the Philippines.

Ramón D. Torres was elected as Mayor of Bago City in 2007, replacing Janet E. Torres, whose husband served as mayor for almost 40 years.

Bago City operates a subsidized college, Bago City College, located in Barangay Balingasag.

Buenos Aires Mountain Resort is one of the main tourist destinations in Bago City and so are the Kipot Twin Falls.

Manila, Cebu City and Binalbagan also predicated the dates of their founding on the same historical situations, hence the logical conclusion is that Bago City was officially founded on the month, day and year heretofore mentioned.

As with regards to how the community acquired its name, according to the manuscript of a Spanish historian, Diego Lope de Povedano, which is available in the library of the University of San Carlos, Cebu City, the community was named after a large tree called “ Bago ” under which, a native prince by the name of Mapagic died.

This historic event was chronicled in a historic marker found in the City public plaza of Bago which bears the following inscriptions:

Bago City is politically subdivided into 24 barangays.

* Balingasag barangay in Bago City

Among his other film music credits are the theme song to the short-lived 1993 CBS television series Johnny Bago ; " Turning Around " for the 1985 film Summer Rental starring John Candy ; " I Don't Know ( Spicoli's Theme )" for the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High ; " Hello, Texas " for the 1980 John Travolta film Urban Cowboy ; and " If I Have To Eat Someone ( It Might As Well Be You )" for the animated film FernGully: The Last Rainforest, which was sung in the film by rap artist Tone Loc.

In the beginning, the Lower-Burma-based kingdom was a loose federation of regional power centers in Martaban ( Mottama ), Pegu ( Bago ) and the Irrawaddy delta.

The Shwegyin Hydropower Plant was in the eastern part Bago Region.

In 1974, partially to assuage Mon separatist demands, the theoretically autonomous Mon State, was created out of portions of Thaninthayi Division and Bago Division.

The ancestors of the rulers Rajas ( Chief or Boh Mong / Bohmong ) of the Marma population used to live in Pegu ( modern Bago ) city of Burma ( Myanmar ) long before it was invaded in 1599 by King Mong Raja Gree of Arakan kingdom, where Mrauk U was the capital city.

With new jockey Johnny Murtagh aboard, she was boxed-in throughout the race and got out late to finish one-and-a-half-lengths behind the winner, Bago.

He was ninth place overall, with a rating of 124 for his Preakness, sharing that spot with Deep Impact ( 2005 Japanese Champion Three-Year-Old Colt and Horse of the Year ), Bago ( 2004 Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe winner and 2004 Cartier Champion Three-Year-Old Male ), Leroidesanimaux ( 2005 U. S. Champion Turf Male ), and Starcraft on that ranking sheet, not far behind the top ranked horse and three-year-old.

At that time the community was still composed of small cluster of settlements along the banks of a big river, which later became known as the Bago River.

Following the traditions and practices of the Spanish missionaries and historians in recording the founding of a “ pueblo ” or town that usually coincides with the feast day of a saint and since the feast day of St. John the Baptist, falls on June 24 of each year, it follows therefore that Bago was founded so that the exact month and day can only be deduced from such traditional practices of the Spaniards.

In the then Municipality of Bago, an election was held and Ramón del Castillo became the first elected municipal president who served in such capacity from the year 1898 up to the year 1900.

Bago was one of the towns that were placed under the control of the Americans ; however, they allowed the municipality to be governed by Filipino officials.

When the Japanese Forces invaded the Philippines, the civil government of Bago was dissolve.

When the American forces liberated the town on March 29, 1945 together with the Filipino troops of the 7th, 71st, 72nd, 75th and 76th Infantry Division of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, 7th Infantry Regiment of the Philippine Constabulary and local Negrosanon guerrilla units continued in Bago, it was completely destroyed but rehabilitation work was immediately started and the town underwent development efforts.

Many members of the Bago tribe from Sigay ventured into the municipality of Tabuk-the capital town of what was then the province of Kalinga-Apayao-in the 1940s well into the 1950s.

Another etymological version states that “ Bagulin ” was derived from the term “ Bago ” which means “ lowland natives ”.

Bago was rebuilt by King Bodawpaya ( r. 1782-1819 ), but by then the river had shifted course, cutting the city off from the sea.

Burma is characterzed by its central lowlands with the Sittaung Valley and Chindwin Valley and the small mountain ranges of Zeebyu Taungdan, Min-wun Taungdan, Hman-kin Taungdan and Gangaw Taungdan as well as the Bago Yoma.

Until the mid 1990s, Yangon remained largely constrained to its traditional peninsula setting between the Bago, Yangon and Hlaing rivers.

It is sandwiched between Kayin State on the east, the Andaman Sea on the west, Bago Region on the north and Tanintharyi Region on the south, and has a short border with Thailand's Kanchanaburi Province at its south-eastern tip.

After Myanmar gained independence from the United Kingdom in January 1948, the Hanthawaddy Province was renamed Pegu ( Bago ) Division, with Yangon as its capital.

The Mon of Burma are divided into three sub-groups based on their ancestral region in Lower Burma: the Man Nya () from Pathein ( the Irrawaddy delta ) in the west, the Man Duin (): Bago in the central region, and the Man Da (): Mottama in the southeast.

Situated on the western coast, it is bordered by Chin State in the north, Magway Region, Bago Region and Ayeyarwady Region in the east, the Bay of Bengal to the west, and the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh to the northwest.

Silting has resulted in the coastline moving 16 km away from Thaton, which is now a sleepy town on the rail line from Bago to Mottama.

Further west is Timbertown, on the edge of large tracts of forestry land leading into the Bago Mountain area.

It is also depicted on the subdivision flags of Bago Division and Mon State, both of which have been historic Mon strongholds.

* France – Prix de l ' Arc de Triomphe won by Bago

The revolutionaries, led by General Juan Araneta from Bago and General Aniceto Lacson from Talisay, were actually carrying fake arms consisting of rifles carved out of palm fronds and cannons of rolled bamboo mats painted black.

In Argentina it is made by Bago Laboratories S. A. and available there and in Ecuador as Ulcozol.

It is bordered by Bago Region to the north, Bago Region and Yangon Region to the east, and the Bay of Bengal to the south and west.

Burmese King Bodawpaya ( 1782 – 1819 ) rebuilt Bago, but by then the river had shifted course, cutting the city off from the sea.

Bago Region is served by Pyay Airport.

Taungoo, in the northern end of the Bago Region, is bordered by mountain ranges, home to teak and other hardwoods.

It is bordered by Sagaing Region to the north, Mandalay Region to the east, Bago Region to the south, and Rakhine State and Chin State to the west.

It is bordered by Mae Hong Son, Tak, and Kanchanaburi provinces of Thailand to the east ; Mon State and Bago Region to the west and south ; Mandalay Region, Shan State and Kayah State to the north.

By 825 they had firmly established themselves in southern and southeastern Myanmar and founded the cities of Bago ( Pegu ) and Thaton, and by the mid-9th century, they had come to dominate all of southern Myanmar.

The newly opened Mawlamyaing Bridge gives quick access from southern Ye to North Bago and Rangoon by a day journey.