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Norzagaray, officially the Municipality of Norzagaray (Tagalog: Bayan ng Norzagaray), is a municipality in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 136,064 people. [4] It is the location of Angat Dam which sits on the lower realms of the Sierra Madre Mountain range.
Fernando María Félix Mateo Juan Nepomuceno de Norzagaray y Escudero (19 July 1808 - 12 September 1860) [1] was a Spanish soldier and colonial governor. Of Basque descent, he was a lieutenant general before becoming the 104th Governor of Puerto Rico and the 78th Governor of the Philippines under Spanish colonial rule .
The General Norzagaray Bridge is a brick and masonry barrel vault bridge built in 1855 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Also known as Puente de los Frailes, it brings what is now Puerto Rico Highway 873 across Frailes Creek, a tributary to the Guaynabo River. It has eight 9.8-metre (32 ft) barrel vault spans.
The district consists of municipalities in southcentral and eastern Bulacan, namely Angat, Norzagaray, and Santa Maria. It is currently represented in the 19th Congress by Salvador A. Pleyto of the Lakas-CMD. [4]
The municipality, along with two other municipalities (Remedios Trinidad and Norzagaray) and one city (San Jose del Monte) of Bulacan, is the homeland of the Alta Kabulowan, the first inhabitants of Bulacan, whose language is also called Alta Kabulowan. Their language is currently endangered and is in dire need of local government intervention.
The Angat Watershed was first gazetted on July 26, 1904, as the Angat River Reserve through Executive Order No. 33 signed by Civil Governor Luke Edward Wright.It set aside the Angat River in the municipality of Norzagaray bordering Mounts Salacot, Balugan and Sulip in the Sierra Madre range and including the Bulagao and Bitbit creeks for purposes of the development of water power from the ...
Aerial view of Ipo Dam on Angat River, 1940. On May 19, 1945, during World War II, the dam was captured in the Battle of Ipo Dam.The Yay Regiment of the Marking Guerrillas, under the command of Col. Marcos V. Agustin, and the US Army's 43rd Division, supported by the Fifth Air Force, captured the water source intact from the Japanese defenders.
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