Province of Nueva Vizcaya

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The Province of Nueva Vizcaya was a vast frontier administrative region of the Viceroyalty of New Spain that encompassed parts of what are now northern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historical administrative division
province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain
administrativeCenter Durango NERFINISHED
borderedBy Province of Coahuila NERFINISHED
Province of New Mexico NERFINISHED
Province of Nueva Galicia NERFINISHED
capital Ciudad de Durango NERFINISHED
Durango NERFINISHED
colonialLanguage Spanish
colonialPower Spain NERFINISHED
country Viceroyalty of New Spain NERFINISHED
dissolutionReason independence of Mexico and later territorial reorganization
economicActivity cattle ranching
silver mining
era Spanish colonial period
establishedBy Spanish Crown NERFINISHED
governmentType colonial province
historicalRegionOf northern frontier of New Spain
includedIndigenousGroups Tarahumara NERFINISHED
Tepehuan NERFINISHED
various Apache groups
includedTerritory parts of present-day Arizona
parts of present-day Coahuila
parts of present-day New Mexico
parts of present-day Sonora
parts of present-day Texas
present-day state of Chihuahua
present-day state of Durango NERFINISHED
knownFor frontier military presidios
mining settlements
missionary activity
language Spanish
locatedIn New Spain NERFINISHED
northern New Spain
locatedInPresentDay northern Mexico
southwestern United States
militaryRole defense of northern frontier of New Spain
namedAfter Biscay NERFINISHED
Nueva Vizcaya (Basque homeland reference) NERFINISHED
Vizcaya NERFINISHED
partOf Interior Provinces of New Spain NERFINISHED
Spanish Empire NERFINISHED
religion Roman Catholicism
religiousAdministration Catholic Church NERFINISHED
sovereign King of Spain NERFINISHED
status defunct administrative division
timePeriod early modern period

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