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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 .
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In the 16th century, the northern frontier of New Spain was Nueva Vizcaya, beginning from 1531. As development increased in the 17th century, a new province was created on its east in 1687, namely, Nueva Extremadura , a very extensive territory at the time, now identified with the much smaller state of Coahuila, in Mexico.
Carlos Mapili Padilla was born in present-day Dupax del Norte, Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines on September 19, 1944. [4] As an illegitimate child whose father died when he was 13, he was raised by his mother, Victoriana Mapili of Aringay, La Union, and Tayug, Pangasinan, along with his older two siblings. [5]
Worst winter storm in more than 120 years blasted Gulf Coast states, including first-ever Blizzard Warning in Louisiana. New Orleans saw 8 inches of snow, making this the worst storm since 1895.
A landslide partially blocked a section of the Nueva Vizcaya-Benguet road in Kayapa. [130] In Tuguegarao, around 3,230 ha (8,000 acres) of crops were destroyed. [131] Around 1,104 people were evacuated in Rizal. [132] At least seven houses on Apo Island in Dauin, Negros Oriental, were destroyed by strong winds and massive waves. [133]