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Nueva Vizcaya (New Biscay, Basque: Bizkai Berria) was the first province in the north of New Spain to be explored and settled by the Spanish. It consisted mostly of the area which is today the states of Chihuahua and Durango and the southwest of Coahuila in Mexico as well as parts of Texas in the United States .
Francisco Ibarra explored northern Mexico and founded Nueva Vizcaya. [2] Fermín de Francisco Lasuén was the founder of many of the Spanish missions in Alta California. In 1907, the Basque community founded the Centro Vasco. This community consisted of immigrants from Navarre, Gipuzkoa, Biscay and some French Basques. [3]
Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of what is today Mexico, the Southwestern United States, the Florida and the Luisiana, Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines) in order to preach the gospel to these lands
The Provincias Internas (Spanish: Inner Provinces), also known as the Comandancia y Capitanía General de las Provincias Internas (Commandancy and General Captaincy of the Inner Provinces), was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1776 to provide more autonomy for the frontier provinces of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day northern Mexico and the Southwestern ...
1562 Province of Nueva Vizcaya established. 1777–1821 Part of the Commandancy General of the Provincias Internas. 1786 Intendencia of Durango established. 1821 Province part of independent Mexico; 1824 Nueva Vizcaya transformed into the states of Durango and Chihuahua.
California mussels are a delicacy of the region, and have been a feature of the cooking for generations. There is evidence that Native American tribes consumed them up and down the California coast for centuries. [191] Crabs are a delicacy, and included in this are Alaskan king crab, red crab, yellow crab, and Dungeness crab. Californian and ...
The 53,500-capacity Estadio BBVA Bancomer, home to football team Monterrey, is expected to host some matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be held in North America. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Association football , or soccer, is one of the region's most popular sports, [ 15 ] as it hosts five out of the eighteen teams that currently play in the ...
Royal reform and re-organization of the Cagayan government and economy began with the creation of Nueva Vizcaya province in 1839. In 1865, Isabela province was created from parts of Cagayan and Nueva Vizcaya. The new administrations further opened Cagayan Valley lands to large-scale agricultural concerns funded by Spanish, Chinese, and wealthy ...