Bindoy

The current site of poblacion started as Barrio Payabon in Manjuyod. The municipality came to existence when Barrio Pabayon was joined with barrios of Malaga, Pangalaycayan, Cabugan, Piñahan, Batangan, Bulod, Atotes, Nalundan, Salong, Tubod, Canluto, Matobato, Tinaogan, Domolog, Tagaytay, and Danao and the sitios of Camodlas, Mansehe, and Cabcaban, to form the Municipality of Payabon when Executive Order No. 228 was signed on June 17, 1949 by then President Elpidio Quirino.{{Cite web |title=Executive Order No. 228 |url=https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo1949/eo_228_1949.html |access-date=2025-03-08 |website=lawphil.net}} On June 26, 1959, the municipality was renamed to its current name Bindoy,{{Cite web |title=Bindoy Annual Audit Report 2023 {{!}} Commission on Audit |url=https://www.coa.gov.ph/wpfd_file/bindoy-annual-audit-report-2023/ |access-date=2025-03-08 |language=en-US}} in honor of the late Hermenegildo “Bindoy” Teves Villanueva, who served as governor of Negros Oriental, assemblyman of the First District, Secretary of Labor, and Senator of the Republic.

Bindoy encompasses 173.7 square kilometers (67.07 square miles) of area. It is bounded with the municipalities of Ayungon in the north, Mabinay to the west, and Manjuyod to the south. It also shares a coastline with Tañon Strait. Bindoy is {{convert|70|km}} from Dumaguete.

Bindoy's Bulod flatstones are weighty export items, their quarrying makes for an interesting sight. Bindoy's mangroves salute nature conservationists, as do dainty Mantahaw Falls and limpid Mantahaw Lake.

Bindoy is politically subdivided into 22 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.

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{{PH brgy table lite|074607001| Atotes | 1905| 2285}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607002| Batangan | 920| 812}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607003| Bulod | 1938| 1910}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607004| Cabcaban | 3090| 3062}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607005| Cabugan | 1642| 1514}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607006| Camudlas | 924| 866}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607007| Canluto | 1440| 1412}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607008| Danao | 1215| 1079}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607009| Danawan | 1133| 1211}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607010| Domolog | 1902| 1692}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607011| Malaga | 1874| 1763}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607012| Manseje | 1000| 1001}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607013| Matobato | 2392| 2158}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607014| Nagcasunog | 580| 582}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607015| Nalundan | 7132| 7242}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607016| Pangalaycayan | 1395| 1198}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607017| Peñahan | 754| 598}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607018| Poblacion (Payabon) | 3160| 3113}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607019| Salong | 703| 778}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607020| Tagaytay | 1727| 1662}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607021| Tinaogan | 2686| 2713}}

{{PH brgy table lite|074607022| Tubod | 796| 765}}

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| Oct rain days = 26.9

| Nov rain days = 19.7

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Bindoy is known as the hub of the Negros Oriental I Electric Cooperative, which energizes the northern towns. Its principal produce are copra, rice and corn, sugar cane, mangoes; and quantities of bamboo, pandan and romblon, tikog, buri, maguey and abaca to support cottage industries.

The annual Libod-Sayaw sa Bindoy, with streetdancing based on folk dances, is a colorful highlight of the town fiesta."[http://negrostourism.com/?page_id=636 About | Cities & Towns] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219025250/http://negrostourism.com/?page_id=636 |date=2014-02-19 }}", Negros Oriental Tourism Office. Retrieved 2013-05-28.

The public schools in the town of Bindoy are administered by two school districts under the [https://www.depednegor.net Schools Division of Negros Oriental].

Elementary schools:

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• Atotes Elementary School — Atotes
• Batangan Elementary School — Batangan
• Bindoy Central Elementary School — Poblacion
• Bulod Elementary School — Bulod
• Cabcaban Elementary School — Cabcaban
• Cabugan Elementary School — Cabugan
• Calatagan Elementary School — Sitio Calatagan, Nalundan
• Campulay Elementary School — Sitio Ogasim, Atotes
• Camudlas Elementary School — Camudlas
• Canluto Elementary School — Canluto
• Capipines Elementary School — Sitio Capipines, Nalundan
• Danao Elementary School — Danao
• Danawan Elementary School — Danawan
• Domolog Elementary School — Domolog
• Malaga Elementary School — Malaga
• Manseje Elementary School — Manseje
• Mantahaw Elementary School — Sitio Mantahaw, Nalundan
• Matobato Elementary School — Matobato
• Nagcasunog Elementary School — Nagcasunog
• Nalundan Elementary School — Nalundan
• Naula-an Elementary School — Sitio Naula-an, Danawan
• Pagsalayon Elementary School — Sitio Pagsalayon, Nalundan
• Pangalaycayan Elementary School — Pangalaycayan
• Peñahan Elementary School — Peñahan
• Salong Elementary School — Salong
• Tagaytay Elementary School — Tagaytay
• Talaptapan Elementary School — Sitio Talaptapan, Nalundan
• Tinaogan Elementary School — Tinaogan
• Tubod Elementary School — Tubod

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High schools:

• Cabcaban Community High School — Cabcaban
• Demetrio L. Alviola National High School — Tinaogan
• Demetrio L. Alviola NHS - Malaga Extension — Malaga
• Demetrio L. Alviola NHS - Nalundan Extension — Sitio Lawi, Nalundan

Private schools:

• Bindoy UCCP Early Childhood Learning Center — Poblacion

• Juanita Amatong (b. 1935) - former secretary of Department of Finance (2003 - 2005)

• List of renamed cities and municipalities of the Philippines

{{Reflist}}

• [{{NSCB detail}} Philippine Standard Geographic Code]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20081120024509/http://www.census.gov.ph/data/census2007/index.html Philippine Census Information]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206201029/http://www.blgs.gov.ph/lgpmsv2/cmshome/index.php?pageID=23 Local Governance Performance Management System]

{{Geographic location

|Centre = Bindoy

|North = Ayungon

|East = Tañon Strait

|South = Manjuyod

|West = Mabinay

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Category:Municipalities of Negros Oriental