The Panaad Park and Sports Complex(, sometimes spelled ''Pana-ad''), also known as the Panaad Park and Stadium or the Panaad Sports and Recreational Park, is a sports and recreational

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Bacolod Bacolod, officially the City of Bacolod (; hil, Dakbanwa/Syudad sang Bacolod; fil, Lungsod ng Bacolod), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the region of Western Visayas, Philippines. It is the capital of the province of Negros Occidenta ...

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owned by the Provincial Government of Negros Occidental. It also hosts a sports complex with a stadium. The park is known as the main venue of the

Panaad Festival The Panaad sa Negros Festival, also called simply as the Panaad Festival (sometimes spelled as ''Pana-ad''), is a festival held annually during the month of April in Bacolod, the capital of Negros Occidental province in the Philippines. ''Panaad'' ...

since its establishment in the late 1990s.

History

The park was established following the completion of a sports complex built for the hosting of the 1998

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, which includes the

Panaad Stadium The Panaad Stadium (), also sometimes spelled as Pana-ad, named after the park where the stadium is situated in, is a multi-purpose stadium in Barangay Mansilingan, Bacolod, Philippines. Panaad hosted various international sporting events parti ...

in Barangay Mansilingan of

. The area was then made as the primary venue of the

which was previously held at the Capitol Park and Lagoon from 1993 to 1996, and at Bredco Port in 1997.

Sports complex

Panaad Park hosts a sports complex with the

as its main stadium. The sports complex also has a swimming pool complex with an Olympic-size swimming pool and a second pool for training purposes. It also hosts a

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Flora

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is the primary type of tree which populates the park. It is estimated that there are 60,000 individual eucalyptus trees in the park.

Other facilities

The venue has been the permanent venue of the

and hosts 32 pavilions which features the 32 towns and cities of

. The park hosts the extension office of

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chapter of the

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in a four-storey building inaugurated within the park in 2018. The 25-hectare Panaad Sports Complex, lined with eucalyptus trees and the 32 attractive pavilions for each local government unit. Each pavilion features the history, commerce, tourism, trade products and services, arts and culture, and food of the particular town or city. The unfinished Negros First Animal Hub, a venue meant for trade of livestock and poultry and related-research and development to boost the agriculture of the province is also hosted inside the park. The center was left incomplete due to alleged anomalies in the bidding process.

References

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