named after Tiking ( Vicente Jr.) sister, was inherited by Lilia Lopez Jison. Rosario Lopez, niece of Vicente Lopez Jr., married Arthur Cooper and became a landowner in Pinocauan, Vallehermoso. Creation of Municipality of Vallehermoso as a separate Municipality The Municipality of Vallehermoso was created by virtue of Executive Order No. 19 signed by former Pres. Manuel A. Roxas. "Upon the recommendation of the Provincial Board of Oriental Negros and the Secretary of the Interior, and pursuant to the provisions of section sixty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, the twenty-four municipalities of the Province of Oriental Negros, as established by section thirty-eight of the Revised Administrative Code, are hereby increased to twenty-five, by segregating from the municipality of Vallehermoso the barrios of Panubigan, Linothangan, Masolog, and Budlasan with all the sitios composing these barrios, and the sitio of Lucap of the barrio of Malaiba, and organizing the same into an independent municipality under the name of Canlaon, with the seat of government in the sitio of Mabigo, barrio of Panubigan." Modern Times On June 3, 2014, Monsignor Patrick Daniel Y. Parcon was appointed as the Bishop-elect of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Talibon, Bohol. Bishop Parcon, born in Vallehermoso in 1961, is a descendant of the Parcon clan in Sitio Tubod, Barangay Puan. He now holds the record of being the first son of Vallehermoso to be consecrated as Bishop, the first son of the Diocese of San Carlos with Vallehermoso as part of it, to be honored to assume the order of such title by Pope Francis. Geography Barangays Vallehermoso is politically subdivided into 15 barangays. Climate Demographics People in Vallehermoso are mostly farmers and fishermen while the minorities are average earners dependent upon the employment opportunities yielded by the government and the business sector. At least half of the residents in the Central Vallehermoso are graduate in secondary education while a considerable number are professionals in the fields of Education and basic civic services. Language Cebuano is the main dialect of Vallehermoso but Hiligaynon is also spoken as the municipality borders Negros Occidental. Economy Vallehermoso is composed mostly of Agricultural lands typically good for growing almost all kinds of crops although much of the uses of these agricultural areas are invested on Sugarcane Farming. Corn is also another product in the area hence the people are largely dependent upon corn as their staple food. Coconut is also another