Cadiz
Philippines
Cadiz, chartered city and port, northern Negros Island, Philippines. It is one of five chartered cities and one of the principal ports on the island where most of the country’s sugar is grown and refined and where fishing is a major industry. Herring, anchovy, round scad, and mackerel are caught. Cadiz fronts north on the Visayan Sea and lies some 40 miles (65 km) northeast of the island’s largest city, Bacolod, another major fishing port and sugar town. It is connected to Bacolod and other coastal cities by a road that nearly circles the island. Inc. city, 1967. Pop. (2000) 141,954; (2010) 151,500.