Nueva Vizcaya,officially the Province of Nueva Vizcaya,is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon. Its capital and largest town is Bayombong. It is bordered by Benguet to the west,Ifugao to the north,Isabela to the northeast,Quirino to the east,Aurora to the southeast,Nueva Ecija to the south,and Pangasinan to the southwest. Quirino province was created from Nueva Vizcaya in 1966.
Bambang,officially the Municipality of Bambang,is a 1st class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya,Philippines. According to the 2020 censusus,it has a population of 55,789 people.
Dupax del Norte,officially the Municipality of Dupax del Norte,is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 33,295 people. Dupax del Norte,situated on the south-eastern part of Nueva Vizcaya,has a total land area of 396 square kilometers. It is bounded by the town of Kasibu in the north,Alfonso Castañeda in the east,Dupax del Sur in the south,and Bambang in the west. It has wide tracts of virgin forests,rich,fertile plains and valleys with mineral deposits and has a climate suitable for agriculture.
Bagabag,officially the Municipality of Bagabag,is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 37,985 people.
Diadi,officially the Municipality of Diadi,is a 4th class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 19,236 people.
Dupax del Sur,officially the Municipality of Dupax del Sur,is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya,Philippines. At the 2020 census,it had a population of 21,224 people.
Kasibu,officially the Municipality of Kasibu,is a 3rd class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 41,776 people.
Solano,officially the Municipality of Solano,is a 1st class municipality in the province of Nueva Vizcaya,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 65,287 inhabitants..
OceanaGold Corporation (OceanaGold) is a gold mining and exploration company based in Vancouver,Canada and Brisbane,Australia.
Abante Vizcaya is a Nueva Vizcaya regional political party in the Philippines,which was formerly affiliated with the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino,now closely affiliated with the Nacionalista Party and the Genuine Opposition. It was the former party of incumbent Nueva Vizcaya Congresswoman Luisa Lloren Cuaresma.
Eduardo Nonato "Edno" Noriel Joson is a Filipino politician. He served in the Philippine legislature as assemblyman from Nueva Ecija (1984–1986) and representative of the province's first district.
Carlos Mapili Padilla was a Filipino politician who served as the Governor of Nueva Vizcaya from 2016 until his death in 2023. Padilla was elected to his first term as Governor in 2016 and was re-elected in 2019 and 2022.
Nueva Vizcaya's at-large congressional district,also known as Nueva Vizcaya's lone district,is the sole congressional district of the Philippines in the province of Nueva Vizcaya for various national legislatures since 1898. The province first elected its representative provincewide at-large for the Malolos Congress of the First Philippine Republic. In 1907,when the Philippine Assembly was established,the province had no representation as it was then classified as a special province under the supervision of the Department of the Interior Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes. Since 1916 when it was re-established as a specially organized province separate from its former Comandancia de Quiañgan which became the Ifugao sub-province under Jones Law,Nueva Vizcaya has been entitled to one member in the House of Representatives. It remains as a single-member district,except for a brief period between 1943 and 1944 when a second seat was allocated in the National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic.
The Nueva Vizcaya Provincial Board is the Sangguniang Panlalawigan of the Philippine province of Nueva Vizcaya.
Faustino Ng Dy Sr. was a Filipino politician who served as mayor of Cauayan,Isabela from 1964 to 1971 and governor of Isabela from 1971 until 1986 and from 1988 to 1992. The longest serving governor of the province,ruling for 18 years,he was also the patriarch of the Dy political dynasty.
Leonardo Balagot Perez was a Filipino politician who served as a member of the Philippine House of Representatives on behalf of the province of Nueva Vizcaya. He was a member of the Senate of the Philippines,and served in the cabinet of President Ferdinand Marcos.
Jose "Jing" Valeriano Gambito is a Filipino politician and the current governor of the province of Nueva Vizcaya. A member of the Lakas-CMD,he served as the vice governor twice from 2004 to 2013 and from 2022 to 2023. On May 5,2023,he was sworn in as the governor upon the death of Carlos M. Padilla. He is running for governor in his own right in the 2025 Philippine general election.
Local elections were held in the province of Nueva Vizcaya on May 9,2022,as part of the Philippine general election. Voters selected candidates for all Local positions:a Municipal Mayor,Municipal Vice Mayor and Municipal Councilors,as well as Members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan,the Governor,the Vice Governor,and a Representative for the lone district of Nueva Vizcaya to the House of Representatives. Those elected took their respective offices on June 30,2022,for a three-year term. 252,486 of 296,233 registered voters voted in this election.
Didipio mine is a large open-pit and underground gold and copper mine located at Kasibu,Nueva Vizcaya,Philippines. The mine is operated by the OceanaGold.
