Nueva Valencia, officially the Municipality of Nueva Valencia ( hil, Banwa sang Nueva Valencia; tl, Bayan ng Nueva Valencia), is a 3rd class

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

in the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

Guimaras Guimaras , officially the Province of Guimaras ( hil, Kapuoran sang Guimaras; tl, Lalawigan ng Guimaras), is an island province in the Philippines located in the Western Visayas region. Its capital is Jordan while its largest local government ...

Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...

. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 42,771 people. Its territory includes the islands of Guiwanon (or Guiuanon), Panobolon, as well as numerous other minor islets. This is the site of the

Guimaras oil spill On August 11, 2006, an oil spill occurred in Panay Gulf when the oil tanker, MT ''Solar 1'', sank off the coasts of Guimaras and Negros in the Philippines, causing what is considered to be the worst oil spill in the country's history. Backgroun ...

in August 2006, when the oil tanker MT ''Solar 1'' sank a few kilometers from Nueva Valencia. Nueva Valencia is a part of the

Metro Iloilo–Guimaras Metropolitan Iloilo–Guimaras ( hil, Kaulohan nga Iloílo–Guimarás; fil, Kalakhang Iloílo–Guimarás), also shortened as Metro Iloilo–Guimaras or simply MIG, is a metropolitan area in the Visayas in the Philippines. It consists of the ...

area, centered on

Iloilo City Iloilo City, officially the City of Iloilo ( hil, Siyudad/Dakbanwa sang Iloilo; fil, Lungsod ng Iloilo), is a 1st class Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines on t ...

Geography

Barangays

Nueva Valencia is politically subdivided into 22

barangay A barangay (; abbreviated as Brgy. or Bgy.), historically referred to as barrio (abbreviated as Bo.), is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district, or ward. In metropolita ...

Climate

Demographics

In the 2020 census, the population of Nueva Valencia was 42,771 people, with a density of .

Economy

References

External links

Official webpage of the Province of Guimaras: Nueva Valencia
* Philippine Standard Geographic Codebr>Philippine Census Information
Municipalities of Guimaras {{WVisayas-geo-stub