utility vehicle and about two hours and 45 minutes on a private car. From Bacolod City, buses are available at Bacolod South Terminal. From Kabankalan City, one can take the public utility jeepneys or buses going to this town. Candoni is the third town with highest elevation in Negros Occidental after Salvador Benedicto and San Carlos City. Climate Barangays Candoni is politically subdivided into 9 barangays. As of 2015, Candoni has a total population of 21,789 and its registered voting population (as of 2015) is 12,449. Demographics Economy Candoni is a fourth class municipality. It is a hinterland town and heavily dependent on agriculture, its main products are sugarcane, rice, corn and coffee. Candoni posted more than 200% rice sufficiency for 2017 and 2018. Financial Source: Commission on Audit of the Philippines ^ Among 1,489 municipalities in 2015 - 2016 and 1,488 in 2017 based on Net Assets. ^^ Among 19 municipalities based on Net Assets. Tourism Candoni have the following tourism sites: Sitio Cantomanyog Zone of Peace, Barangay Haba Hinarap Falls, Barangay Agboy Pineapple Farm, Barangay Gatuslao Twin Cave, Barangay West Kennington Hill Nature Park, Brgy West and Gatuslao Mount Tahutay, Barangay Caningay Shang Spring Resort, Barangay East Tigmaya-Paco Road Zone of Peace The Sitio of Cantomanyog in Barangay Haba was the first Zone of Peace in the Philippines. Peace Zone culture is so influential that the people of Cantomanyog were able to produce cultural products therefrom like oral history of Cantomanyog, poetry and music to the extent that it inspired a cluster of communities to do same. The first skirmish between the NPA and the military happened in Southern Negros in September 1971. With the information that the NPA had a base in the towns of Candoni and Kabankalan, the military immediately sent troops in the said area to hunt down the rebels. The NPA's popularity in the hinterlands of Southern Negros, where government was seldom seen and felt, could be explained by its ability to dispense swift, revolutionary justice and maintain order in the community. On April 18, 1989, an undetermined number of NPA guerillas launched a surprise attack on the 7th IB, Alpha Company Detachment at Caningay, Candoni. The Caningay raid was one of the NPA's most daring attacks on a military outpost in Candoni. In 1989, on the island of Negros, because of the inhuman conditions in the evacuation centers, nearly 300 persons - most