Unlike the crowded sands of more popular Luzon beaches like Puerto Galera, Nagasa is usually empty.
This pyramid-like building is the Church of San Agustin in Paoay in the Northern Luzon.
He estimated up to 300, 000 people have been displaced on the island of Luzon alone.
The picnickers nearest to the statue itself, for instance, speak mostly Ilocano, a dialect from northern Luzon.
Manila, on the island of Luzon, and the nearby province of Rizal bore the brunt of the storm.
From 2002, the Luzon grid will have 2, 700 MW more capacity coming onstream - or, rather, up from the sea.
Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Parma remains slow-moving over the Philippine island of Luzon.
Digitel has installed 300, 000 lines in Luzon island (except Metro Manila, which is outside its franchise area) and plans 800, 000 more by 2000.
It has a 30-year contract to manage the government's existing Luzon telephone network and permission to build an international gateway facility for overseas calls.
"We're really talking about maybe hundreds of thousands of people, " with about 280, 000 to 300, 000 displaced in the island of Luzon alone, he said.
Pinatubo, a volcano on the Philippine island of Luzon, began to rumble with a series of the powerful steam explosions that typically precede an eruption.
Despite Aquino's vows that her clan's 6, 000-hectare sugar estate in central Luzon would be part of the New Philippines, it remains in the Old World.
The Philippines has three main geographical divisions: Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.
After five years, Hapinoy says it has helped thousands of sari-sari stores and has extended its reach to 14 provinces in the main island of Luzon.
The Lopezes control and run Meralco, the electricity distribution monopoly on Luzon island (other interests: the ABS-CBN broadcasting network, the country's largest, as well as toll expressways and water services).
Owned by the Lopez family, it has a big advantage: sister company Manila Electric Co. has a network of power poles across Metro Manila and many parts of Luzon island.
The western coastal road is mostly paved, and comfortable air-conditioned buses now come straight to Sablayan from Manila via car ferries that chug from the Philippines' main island, Luzon, to Abra de Ilog.
The senator has filed a bill to set up appeals courts in key cities outside Manila: Baguio and Naga in Luzon island, Iloilo and Cebu in the Visayas, and Cagayan de Oro and Davao in Mindanao.
Meralco says it is not interested in the NPC's 230-kilovolt main transmission line, but just in the 115-kv subsidiary link to the southern Luzon provinces of Cavite and Laguna, where the country's major industries - Meralco's customers - are situated.
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