Granada, Bacolod
| Granada | |
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| Barangay | |
 1899 U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey showing Granada as a separate town. |
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 Granada
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| Coordinates: 10°40′8.256″N 123°2′13.567″E / 10.66896000°N 123.03710194°E | |
| Country |
 Philippines
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| Region | Negros Island Region (NIR) |
| Province | Negros Occidental |
| City | Bacolod |
| Established | 1854 (Town) |
| Incorporated | 1902 (to Bacolod) |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Evelio Leonardia (NPC) (Mayor of Bacolod) |
| • Chairman | Salvacion Sembilla |
| Area | |
| • Total | 29.84,621 km2 (11.52369 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 100 to 250 m (328 to 820 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 18,923 |
| Demonym(s) | Granadanhon |
| Time zone | PST (UTC+8) |
| Patron Saint | Our Lady of Lourdes |
| Feast Day | February 18 |
| Website | www |
Granada is a former town and constituent barangay of Bacolod. Located on the easternmost portion of the city, it borders Northern Negros Natural Park.
Granada traces its earliest history during the height of the Moro raids in the Visayas when the settlement of Magsungay, precursor of the present-day Bacolod City, was abandoned after the attack by Moro forces under Datu Bantílan of Sulu on July 14, 1755. The rolling hills characterizing the area inspired the name "Bacolod" from the Hiligaynon word "buklod," meaning "hilly terrain."
When the townsfolk came back to the old Magsungay settlement in 1788 to establish the pueblo of Bacolod, a smaller village was left and the place was called "Kamingawan", which is Hiligaynon for "place of sorrows," due to the silence left by the population decrease. However, Kamingawan was created as a pueblo in its own right, renamed "Granada" in 1854 with Aquilino Sausao as the first presidente municipal.
It was dissolved, along with the town of Sum-ag, and incorporated to Bacolod in 1902 upon the dissolution of the Republic of Negros and the reorganization initiated by the American Insular Government of the Philippine Islands.
Currently, the land area of modern Sum-ag is significantly smaller than the original town. Alangilan, Vista Alegra and Estefania were constituent territories carved our from Granada, leaving it as the most rural barangay of Granada.
Granada is home to some prominent business like San Miguel Brewery and a reservoir of the Bacolod City Water District, supplying a fraction of the city's water supply. Granada Public Cemetery also boasts of being the oldest continuously-used cemetery in Bacolod City, dating back to its inception as a town.
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