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Nueva Vizcaya is a province in the Cagayan Valley region of Luzon.
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Southern Nueva Vizcaya — A largely rural and remote area bordering Central
Luzon, dominated by the Caraballo Mountain range. It is composed of the
small towns of Alfonso Castañeda, Aritao, Bambang, Dupax del Norte, Dupax
del Sur, Kayapa, and Santa Fe, and two nature reserves, Casecnan
Protected Landscape and Salinas Natural Monument.
Understand[edit]
The province's name derives from the province of Vizcaya (Biscay) in Spain's Basque
Country. During the early Spanish colonial era, Nueva Vizcaya used to be a part of a
larger Cagayan province, along with Isabela — named after Queen Isabella II of Spain.
When Nueva Vizcaya was created in 1839 through the advice of the alcalde mayor of
Cagayan, it included the present area occupied by the province plus present-
day Mountain Province, Quirino, Aurora, and much of Isabela today.
Nueva Vizcaya is mountainous, full of steep mountain ranges, rolling hills, and valleys
and plains between them. Mountain ranges form the provincial boundaries: the
Caraballo Mountains to the south, the Luzon Cordillera to the north and west, and the
Sierra Madre to the east. The Caraballo range has Dalton Pass, which carries Asian
Highway 26 between Cagayan Valley and Central Luzon.
Nueva Vizcaya has a population of 452,000 (2015 census figures) and is sparsely
populated. The Novovizcayanos — as the residents identify themselves — are largely
ethnically Igorot, coming from tribes like the Ifugao, the Isinai, the Dumagat, the
Kalanguya and the Bugkalot, and these indigenous peoples hold ancestral land claims
for most of the province. The remainder of the population are Ilocano settlers, brought to
Nueva Vizcaya during Spanish times to work in tobacco plantations and help with
construction of Catholic missions to evangelize and pacify the Igorot. Therefore, Nueva
Vizcaya is culturally closer to the Cordilleras than to Cagayan Valley, and many Novo
Vizcayanos support the inclusion of their province into the Cordillera region.
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The primary language spoken in Nueva Vizcaya is Ilocano, brought by settlers, but is
not native to the region. Most Novo Vizcayanos speak indigenous Igorot languages like
Isinai, Bugkalot (or Ilongot), and Ifugao, but they switch to Ilocano, Tagalog or English
when dealing with visitors.
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By bus[edit]
All the towns along the Maharlika Highway are served by buses from Manila to
destinations such as Banaue, Kalinga, and Tuguegarao further north. Victory
Liner provides much of the services that travel Maharlika Highway all the way through
the province, while Ohayami Transport plies the Manila-Banaue route. Most buses have
a food stop on Dalton Pass, and another major stopover at Solano.
By car[edit]
Maharlika Highway (Asian Highway 26) traverses the province all the way from both the
boundaries with Nueva Ecija and Isabela.
From the Cordilleras, Benguet-Nueva Vizcaya Road (Route 110) provides a scenic
route from Baguio, while Nueva Vizcaya-Ifugao-Mountain Province Road (Route 109) is
a north-south route that serves Banaue and Bontoc
The town of Alfonso Castañeda is only reachable through a road from Pantabangan in
Nueva Ecija to Baler in Aurora.
By plane[edit]
1 Bagabag Airport (no IATA, ICAO code: RPUZ). Has charter flights
from Clark on Platinum Skies. (updated Aug 2019 | edit)
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