Canlaon is a component city in the province of Negros Oriental in the Philippines, with 62,785 residents at the 2024 census. It takes its name from the nearby Kanlaon Volcano; the name Kanlaon is explained as the place of Laon, a pre-colonial Visayan goddess of creation, agriculture and justice, and Laon itself means the ancient one. The place began as Sitio Mabigo of Barrio Panubigan in Vallehermoso, and in 1941 the geodetic engineer Isidoro Bautista Sr. and residents petitioned the government to make it a separate municipality. Japanese forces captured Canlaon on 10 April 1942, and the occupation ended in early 1945 when US Eighth Army soldiers arrived.
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it has a population of 62,785 people
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component city in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines
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component city in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines
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component city in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines
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