Bacong is a fourth-class municipality in the province of Negros Oriental, Philippines. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 36,527 people. Bacong was the hometown of the Visayan hero of the Philippine Revolution, Pantaleon Villegas, better known as León Kilat. ^ "Negros Island Region ". Census of Population : Total Population by Province, City, Municipality and Barangay. PSA. Retrieved 20 June 2016.