BACOLOD, a municipality (with administration centre and seven barrios or districts), capital of the province of Occidental Negros, and port on the western side of the island of Negros opposite the small island of Guimaras, in the Philippine Islands. Pop. (1918), 19,36o, of whom 9,785 were males and 25 whites. Because of the shallowness of the water, large vessels cannot enter the harbour. Good automobile roads lead to other parts of the province, and largely because of this, Bacolod is a centre for the sugar industry. In 1918 it had five manufacturing estab lishments with an output valued at 39,00o pesos. That year it had ten schools, of which five were public. A meteorological station is established there. The language is a dialect of Bisayan.