| New Biscay Nueva Vizcaya | |||||||||
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| 1562–1821 | |||||||||
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| Capital | Victoria de Durango | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Viceroyalty | ||||||||
| Governor-General | |||||||||
• 1562 | Francisco de Ibarra | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 1562 | ||||||||
| 27 September 1821 | |||||||||
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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.