Why Bacolod city of Philippines famous for?

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   The City of Bacolod is a highly urbanized Philippine city. It is the capital of the province of Negros Occidental.  Bacolod city of Philippines is prominent for its world famous MassKara Festival held throughout the 3rd week of October. The carnival first started in 1980 throughout a time span of crisis. The province relied on sugar cane as its prime farming crop, and the cost of sugar was at an all-time reduced due to the introduction of sugar alternates like high fructose corn syrup in the United States. It was furthermore a time of tragedy; on April 22 of that year, the inter-island vessel Don Juan carrying numerous Negrenses, encompassing those belonging to famous families in Bacolod City, collided with the tanker Tacloban City and sank. An approximated 700 inhabits were lost in the tragedy. The phrase ""MassKara"" is a portmanteau, coined by the late creative individual Ely Santiago from the phrase ""mass"" significance ""many or a multitude of the people"", and the Spanish phrase cara significance ""face"". A famous characteristic of the carnival is the mask damaged by participants; these are habitually adorned with grinning faces. MassKara therefore entails a multitude of grinning faces.
   
   The carnival characteristics a road promenade affray where persons from all strolls of life troop to the roads to glimpse colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the tempo of Latin melodious beats in a brandish of mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina. Major undertakings encompass the MassKara Queen Attractiveness pageant, carnivals, percussion equipment and bugle corps affrays, nourishment carnivals, sports happenings, melodious live performances, agriculture-trade fairs, flower bed displays, and other special events organized ad-hoc every year.

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