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Dumaguete (123.299E
9.292N) was the chief city
and port of Negros Island in the central Philippines. It is
an important inter-island trading port, and its hinterland
produces corn and copra.
Silliman University was founded here in 1901 by American missionaries.
There was an airstrip
nearby.
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