Zaragoza

 town, municipality, third-level administrative division

Municipality of Zaragoza, Province of Nueva Ecija
Land Area: 95.60 km²
ZIP Code: 3110

Zaragoza is a municipality in the landlocked province of Nueva Ecija in the Philippines. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 44,124 people.

Zaragoza was originally a barrio of the Municipality of Aliaga, Nueva Ecija. Because of the presence of a big mango tree in the center of the town, then considered as the poblacion, intrepid Ilocanos who cleared the area of thick cogon grasses called the place as Mangga a Lakay, an Ilocano phrase meaning “Old Mango Tree”. In 1864, the place was referred to as “San Vicente,” in honor of its patron, St. Vincent Ferrer. It was actually converted into a town in 1878 through the efforts of Don Francisco Mas, a visiting Spaniard, who named the place “Zaragoza,” after his home city in Spain.

Zaragoza is politically subdivided into 19 barangays:

-Batitang
-Carmen
-Concepcion
-Del Pilar
-General Luna
-H. Romero
-Macarse
-Manaul
-Mayamot
-Pantoc
-San Isidro
-San Rafael
-San Vicente (Poblacion)
-Santa Cruz
-Santa Lucia Old
-Santa Lucia Young
-Santo Rosario Old
-Santo Rosario Young
-Valeriana