Lucena is around a 2-hour drive by bus from Manila. The province has two well known churches. All houses in the town are lavishly-decked with colorful rice wafers and other crops. Other towns also celebrate the "Pahiyas Festival" but not as grandiose as that of Lucban. Banahaw, an extinct volcano, is known for its supposedly mystical attributes. Unique rites are held during Holy Week by religious sects here.
Gintong Yaman ng Quezon Museum houses the memorabilia of President Quezon and other prominent sons and daughters of the province. All rights reserved. Notice: Prior to using this website, you should review the Terms and Conditions. Your access to and use of this Site constitutes acceptance of such Terms and Conditions. Civil government is established by the Americans in , and the capital moved to Lucena. The Americans quelled remaining rebellions led by Filipinos in Quezon, as the province served as a supply point for rebels in Batangas and Laguna.
Marinduque became part of Tayabas between and In December , the Japanese arrived in Quezon, and stayed until their surrender in Quezon gains its current name after a law is passed to name it after Manuel Quezon in Aurora is carved out as a smaller province within Quezon, until it was separated officially in A referendum is held on the question of dividing the province into two in , but has been defeated by a vast majority.
Quezon has a climate generally characterized by an almost equal distribution of rainfall through the year, but as the province is vast, there are variations, with western parts having a dry and wet season, and the eastern parts having a rainforest climate. The provinces gets struck by typhoons frequently, with the eastern parts the most vulnerable due to undeveloped infrastructure.
Quezon is quite conservative in politics, but is more so to the east of the Sierra Madre. This manifest in cultural differences between the more urbanized west Pagbilao, Lucena, Tayabas Sariaya, Candelaria, Tiaong, and San Antonio , who are open to development, and the rural east, where locals strive to protect their traditional lifestyle reliant on fishing, agriculture and forestry.
Due to geographical barriers, lifestyle differences, and political preferences, inhabitants of Quezon have been increasingly polarized, and regionalism has increased, especially in the mountainous Bondoc Peninsula, where there is an active regionalist movement demanding the creation of their own province. A plebiscite to divide Quezon has been held in , but is rejected by a sweeping majority of the province's residents. Major environmental challenges includes protecting the province's remaining rainforests, opposing construction of new fossil fuel power plants, and controling land development.
Quezon is a Tagalog -speaking province, but it has a distinctive dialect called Tayabas Tagalog or Tayabasin. Tayabasin is basically similar to Batangas Tagalog from its accent and vocabulary, but features a vocabulary with many borrowings from other Philippine languages like Ilocano , Bikol and Cebuano. While standard Tagalog or Batangas Tagalog is most commonly used in urbanized western Quezon, you'll likely stumble upon Tayabasin at the most rural parts of the province.
Tayabasin also has its distinctive expression hane huh-NEH' , which is used like like the Batangas ala eh. Major destinations in Quezon Province is regularly served by buses from Metro Manila and also Batangas. Most bus traffic through the province are bound for Bicol, Eastern Visayas, and Mindanao. Most motor traffic in the province passed through Maharlika Highway, but it has been experiencing major bottlenecks in the most important towns, resulting to the construction of bypasses.
Northern Quezon will be connected to Aurora Province and Nueva Ecija through a road through the eastern Sierra Madre from Dingalan , but as of the moment, it will be a long drive through Manila the same goes for the rest of Aurora.
The province is vast, and distances can be rather deceptive. With no expressways until the completion of an extension of the South Luzon Expressway SLEX to Lucena by , travel by road can take long, as many major highways also serve as main streets of the towns they serve.
That said, many large towns have bypass roads being built, which should shorten travel times a bit until the expressways open. According to the Census, the age group with the highest population in Quezon is 5 to 9 , with , individuals. Conversely, the age group with the lowest population is 80 and over , with 15, individuals.
The population of Quezon grew from , in to 1,, in , an increase of 1,, people over the course of years. The latest census figures in denote a positive growth rate of 1.
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