Due to frequent Moro raids, they fled inland and settled in a place where the primitive inhabitants were akin to the province's pygmies.

They selected the area where herbaceous giant gabi-like plants which they called "Marviga" grew abundantly.

As time went on they felt however, the strain of Spanish civil rule cruelties, when the Philippine Revolution broke out, many able-bodied natives joined the nationalistic movement and fought the colonizer.

When the Americans came, Viga was virtually liberated from the Spanish rule, civil government was established.

A pitched and running battle between the guerillas and escaping Japanese forces were simultaneously fought at Bangguerohan and Cabatangan where the latter was defeated.

[5] Viga is one of the eleven towns in the province of Catanduanes, located in the north-eastern portion of the island.

The largest coastal plain is the contiguous wetlands over which lays the widest area of rice paddies and a vast swamp full of nipa and mangroves.

Its lush rainforest is home to Philippine brown deer (Rusa marianna), flying foxes, and other endemic bat species, warty pigs, civets, cobras, giant pythons, monitor lizards, sailfin lizards and other endemic animals.

Unfortunately, one bird subspecies, the Catanduanes Bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica rubiventris) had experienced over-exploitation in the late 20th century.

In mainland Luzon, sightings of this wonderful creature is already rare while in Marinduque, it is generally considered extinct.

One of the very recent species found in Catanduanes and portions of Bicol region is the new loam-swimming skink, a legless reptile with its assigned scientific name Brachymelesmakusog.

Many highly valuable hardwood trees such as yakal, apitong, palosapis, and molave are still found in the forests though local reports indicate that these species are already threatened.

Coastal reefs harbor many endangered and threatened types of mollusks such as giant Triton, cowries, abalone, cone snails, conches, octopuses, squids, and nautiluses.

Many edible marine algae such as caulerpa, valonia, and turbellaria also grow abundantly on its rough coasts.

This current performs an array of physical and biological functions in countless marine life like migration and breeding.