Alberto C. Baguio Jr.

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Region 3

Central Luzon or known as Region 3, was created to organize the 7 provinces of the vast
central plain of the island of Luzon (the largest island), for administrative convinience. The
region contains the largest in the country and produces most of the country’s rice supply, earning
itself the nickname “Rice Granary of the Philippines”. Its provinces are Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan,
Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac, and Zambales.
There common practice and activities. It has a very diverse cultural heritage and colorful
traditions, owing to the influence of Spanish, American and Japanese colonizers, as well as the
presence of different ethnolinguistic groups – Aetas, Sambals, Capampangangs, Tagalogs,
Ilocanos and Pangasinenses. More than half of the population in the region speaks Tagalog,
which is attributed to the large Tagalog-speaking provinces of Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan and
Nueva Ecija. Capampangan is the next most widely spoken dialect in the region, used by people
from Pampanga and Tarlac. Ilocano, the third most dominant dialect in the region, is spoken in
the provinces of Zambales, northern Tarlac and northern Nueva Ecija which are close to the
Ilocano-speaking provinces of Pangasinan and the Cordilleras.
The artifacts that are created by central Luzon is the famous sabutan and drift wood
products from Aurora, fish and other marine products from Bataan, jewelries and bags from
Bulacan, dairy products and metal works from Nueva Ecija, delicacies and Christmas Decors
from Pampanga, pottery and wine from Tarlac, and mango products and delicacies from
Zambales.
This society, they believed, was inhabited by spirits that included dead ancestors, deities,
and lesser gods. Pre-Hispanic Filipinos honored these spirits with rituals and feast days because
these supernatural beings were considered able to preside over the whole gamut of life, including
birth, sickness, death, courtship, marriage, planting, harvesting, and death. Some of these spirits
were considered friendly; others were viewed as tyrannical enemies.
Luzon was originally inhabited by Negritos before Austronesians from Taiwan scattered
and displaced them. The Austronesian groups were divided into two types of nations; coastal
lowland states or highland civilizations. Highland civilizations were based in the mountains and
had built up plutocracies based on agriculture, such as the Igorot Society which is responsible for
building many of the rice terraces in the Cordillera Mountains, among the most notable being the
Banaue Rice Terraces. Meanwhile, coastal states were split among Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms,
Muslim principalities, and ethnoreligious tribes, who had trading connections with Borneo, Java,
Sumatra, Malaya, Indochina, Bengal, India, Korea, Okinawa, Japan and China, before the
Spaniards established their rule. From just before the first millennium, the Tagalog,
Kapampangan and Pangasinan peoples of south and central Luzon had established several major
coastal polities, most notable among them those of Maynila, Tondo and Namayan. The Laguna
Copperplate Inscription, the first Philippine document written in 900AD, names places in and
around Manila Bay as well as Medan in Indonesia.[9] These kingdoms were based on leases
between village rulers (Datu) and landlords (Lakan) or Rajahs, to whom tributes and taxes were
levied. These kingdoms were coastal thalassocracies based on trade with neighboring Asian
political entities at that time. There was also a Sino-Buddhist country in nearby Mindoro called
the country of Ma-i.
This are the issues faced by central Luzon. Central Luzon cops also rescued 14 women –
6 Vietnamese and 8 Chinese. The Department of Agriculture says the tainted meat products were
processed by 'medium-scale enterprises'using 'local pork'. The region has a history of election
violence and recorded hundreds of gun ban violations since January. Central Luzon cops kill
almost double the number of drug suspects that Metro Manila policemen killed in 2018. Bulacan
has the most number of suspected cases of measles in Central Luzon, followed by Pampanga,
according to DOH Region 3. Over 13,800 Filipinos in Luzon evacuate due to monsoon. Central
Luzon police chief: Shame campaign vs drug dealers, or death