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Central Luzon designated as Region III, is an administrative region in the Philippines, primarily serving to organize the 7
provinces of the vast central plain of the island of Luzon (the largest island), for administrative convenience. The region
contains the largest plain in the country and produces most of the country's rice supply, earning itself the nickname "Rice
Granary of the Philippines". Its provinces are: Aurora, Bataan, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija,Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales.

Aurora is a province in the Philippines located in the eastern part of Central Luzon region, facing the Philippine Sea. Its
capital is Baler and borders, clockwise from the south, the provinces of Quezon, Bulacan, Nueva Ecija,Nueva
Vizcaya, Quirino, and Isabela.
Before 1979, Aurora was part of the province of Quezon. Aurora was, in fact, named after Aurora Aragon, the wife of Pres.
Manuel L. Quezon, the president of the Philippine Commonwealth, after whom the mother province was named.
Bataan is a province in the Philippines situated in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city ofBalanga. Occupying the
entire Bataan Peninsula on Luzon, Bataan is bordered by the provinces of Zambalesand Pampanga to the north. The
peninsula faces the South China Sea to the west and Subic Bay to the north-west, and encloses Manila Bay to the east.
The Battle of Bataan is famous in history as one of the last stands of American and Filipino soldiers before they were
overwhelmed by the Japanese forces in World War II. The Bataan Death March was named after the province, where the
infamous march started.
Located within the province is the Philippines' only nuclear power plant, the Bataan.
Bulacan is a province in the Philippines, located in the Central LuzonRegion (Region III) in the island of Luzon, 11
kilometres (6.8 mi) north of Metropolitan Manila (the nation's capital), and part of the Metro Luzon Urban Beltway Super
Region. Bulacan was established on August 15, 1578.
It has 569 barangays from 21 municipalities and three component cities (Malolos the provincial capital,Meycauayan,
and San Jose del Monte). Bulacan is located immediately north of Metro Manila. Bordering Bulacan are the provinces
of Pampanga to the west, Nueva Ecija to the north, Aurora and Quezon to the east, and Metro Manila and Rizal to the
south. Bulacan also lies on the north-eastern shore of Manila Bay.
In the 2015 census, Bulacan had a population of 3,292,071 people, the highest in Region III and the 2nd most populous
in the Philippines.[4] Bulacan's most populated city is San Jose del Monte, the most populated municipality is Santa
Maria while the least populated is Doa Remedios Trinidad.
Nueva Ecija is a landlocked province in thePhilippines located in the Central Luzon region. Its capital is the city of Palayan.
Nueva Ecija borders, from the south clockwise, Bulacan, Pampanga, Tarlac, Pangasinan, Nueva Vizcaya and Aurora.

Pampanga or Pampaga (Kapampangan: Lalawigan ning Pampanga; Filipino: Lalawigan ng Pampanga) is aprovince in
the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. Lying on the northern shore of Manila Bay, Pampanga is bordered by Tarlac to
the north, Nueva Ecija to the northeast, Bulacan to the east, the Manila Bay to the central-south, Bataan to the southwest,
and Zambales to the northwest. Its capital is the City of San Fernando;Angeles City, while geographically within Pampanga,
is classified as a first-class, highly urbanized city and is governed independently of the province.
The name La Pampanga was given by the Spaniards, who encountered natives living along the banks (pampng) of
the Pampanga River. Its creation in 1571 makes it the first Spanish province on Luzon Island (Cebu in Visayas is older as it
was founded by the Spaniards in 1565). The town of Bacolor in the province briefly served as the Spanish colonial capital
when Great Britain invaded Manila as part of the Seven Years' War. At the eve of the Philippine Revolution of 1896,
Pampanga was one of eight provinces placed undermartial law for rebellion against the Spanish Empire; it is thus
represented on the Philippine national flag as one of the eight rays of the sun.
Tarlac is a landlocked province located in the Central Luzon region in the Philippines. It is bounded on the north by the
province of Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija on the east, Zambales on the west andPampanga in the south. The province
comprises three congressional districts and is subdivided into 17 municipalities and one city, Tarlac City, which is the
provincial capital.
Early in history, what came to be known as Valenzuela Ranch today was once a thickly forested area, peopled by roving
tribes of nomadic Aetas who are said to be the aboriginal settlers of the Philippines, and for a lengthy period, it was the
remaining hinterland of the Central Plain of Luzon. Tarlac is the most multi-cultural of the provinces in the region for having
a mixture of four distinct groups, the Kapampangans, Pangasinenses,Ilocanos and Tagalogs. It is also known for its fine
food and vast sugar and rice plantations.

Tarlac's name is a Hispanized derivation from a talahib weed called Matatarlak. Tarlac was originally a part of the
provinces of Pampanga and Pangasinan. It was the last province in Central Luzon to be organized under the Spanish
administration in 1874.

Zambales is a province in the Philippines located in the Central Luzon region in the island of Luzon. Its capital is Iba.
Zambales borders Pangasinan to the north, Tarlac and Pampanga to the east, Bataan to the south and the South China
Sea to the west. The Freeport Zone (SBMA) is host to many tourist attractions which include casinos, beach resorts, parks,
beachside huts and cottages and historical sites.

The province's name came from the word zambal, which is a Hispanized term for Sambali. Zambal refers to
thelanguage spoken by the early Austronesian inhabitants of the place. A contending version states that the name was
derived from the word samba, meaning worship, because the Spanish supposedly found the native inhabitants to be highly
superstitious; worshiping the spirits of their ancestors.

Juan Crisstomo Caballa Soto (27 January 1867 12 July 1918) was a Filipino poet, dramatist, journalist and newspaperman. He was
also known as Crissot, the Father of Pampango Literature.

NINA ESTRADA PUYAT- She and her sister, Eva, were known as celebrated talented campus beauties. Their second cousin was
the hero-martyr Benigno Aquino. Eva became a senator (Senator Eva Estrada Kalaw), while Nina became a well known poet. She
was in fact known as the Elizabeth Barrett Browning of the Philippines.

Nina was also short story writer, for which she was a Shelley Memorial Awardee. She also wrote essays; she was a columnist,
civic leader, society matron, and "a childless perennial Auntie to the young."

Her collection of fifty sonnets, Heart of Clay, was published by Doubleday as This Love Within.Her political works include a three-
act play, The Cripple, which was censored by the Marcos regime. The poem "Elegy" was written on the night of the assassination
of Ninoy Aquino, and is said to be the most significant piece of poetry to come out of the People Power era in the Philippines.

Angela Manalang-Gloria- She was the author of Revolt from Hymen, a poem protesting against marital rape, which caused
her denial by an all-male jury from winning the Philippine'sCommonwealth Literary Awards in 1940. She was also the
author of the poetry collection, Poems, first published in 1940 (and revised in 1950). The collection contained the best of
her early work as well as unpublished poems written between 1934-1938. Her last poem, Old Maid Walking on a City
Street can also be found in the collection. This book was her entry to the Commonwealth Literary Awards, losing to Rafael
Zulueta y da Costas verse Like the Molave.

Gregorio C. Brillantes, a Palanca Award Hall of Famer and a multi-awarded fiction writer,[1] is one of the Philippines' most
popular writers in English.
Known for his sophisticated and elegant style, he has been compared to James Joyce. He often writes about individuals
under thirty, adolescent or post adolescent ones who struggle with alienation from family, society and from themselves. His
earlier collection of short stories earned him the title of the "Catholic Writer". But elements of the fantastic also come in his
works. In the 2006 Graphic/Fiction Awards, the main local sponsor of the contest, specialty book shop Fully Booked,
acknowledged Brillantes as one of the godfathers of fantastic literature in English by naming the first category the Gregorio
C. Brillantes Prize for Prose.