Punong Barangay
Yulan Nifras

Barangay Kagawad
Marly Guadalupe
Romel Delgado
Leonel Garanzo
Llomar Cordero
Jerry Nombre
Reden Entierro
Selverino Gonzales

Sk Chairman
Laurence Joy Gengoyon

Sk Member
Rejoice Perido
Ella Mae Guitguit
Jay-r Delgado
Veson Garancho
Reniel Demapula
Jomarie Ubaldo
Camela Capcion

History

Barangay Daan Banua is the only among 32 Barangays in the City of Kabankalan, where northernmost tip lies along the coast of Panay Gulf, a fishing ground in Western Visayas. It is

almost surrounded by bodies of seawater. On the northeast, it is separated by the Binicuil River from Barangay Su-ay in Himamaylan City. On the southeast, it is bounded by the Caman-og Creek from Barangay Andulauan in Ilog. On the east, it shares it boundary with Barangay Binicuil, a sister Barangay.

Barangay DaanBanua is an agricultural community. Farming and Fishing are the major industries of the residents. Almost all of them are farmers and fisher folks. While others engaged in many different ways of getting a living.

The name “DaanBanua” is a Hiligaynon term for “Old Town”. It was once upon a time a town and trading center in Southern Negros Island during the Spanish regime when Ilog was then the Capital of Negros Island. Kabankalan at the time was only a Barangay of Ilog.

As a trading center in Southern Negros Island, DaanBanua’s commerce and industry were coming in and out through the Binicuil River which at the time was deep and navigable. The raw sugar from the “Muscovado” mills in DaanBanua was exported to the different places in the

Philippines which were transported by big sailboats known to the local folks as “Batil” and

“Paraw” through the Binicuil River.

The first settlers of Daan Banua were rooted from the island of Panay especially from the town of Guimbal in the Province of Iloilo. That’s why most of the family names of the residents began with the capital letter “G” and most of them owned wide tract of land.

The education of the people of Daan Banua had begun long time ago. The local folks were already taught by the Spaniards how to read through a system known as the “Cartelia” and when the Americans came they brought with then aboard the SS Thomas a compliment of American’s Teachers who taught the villagers how to read and write using English as a medium of instructions.

But at the turn of the centuries, the once flourishing commerce and industry of DaanBanua gradually died a natural death when roads and bridges interconnecting different places from North and South of Negros Occidental were constructed. Big and modern sugar centrals were put up some parts of the Province to replace the crude muscovado sugar mills.

From then on, Daan Banua was left behind and became a silent town when Kabankalan outdone Ilog in terms of progress and development. The ruins of the old and dilapidated muscovado sugar mills could still be seen today at a place now called Hacienda Carmen as a memory living past of Daan Banua which now a Barangay in the City of Kabankalan.

Land Area

  • 1233 hectares

Map

Total Population

  • 4,942

Number of Households

  • 1,079

Education Health and Services Facilities

  • ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  • SECONDARY SCHOOL
  • 5 DAY CARE CENTERS
  • HEALTH CENTER
  • 4 BASKETBALL COURTS
  • COVERED COURT
  • BARANGAY HALL
  • DUNGGANON
  • ASA
  • CARD INC
  • KMBI