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Batanes
Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes (; Ilocano: ''Probinsia ti Batanes''; , ), is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It is the northernmost province in the Philippines, and the smallest, both in population and land area. The capital is Basco, located on the island of Batan, and is also the most populous municipality in the province. The island group is located approximately north of the Luzon mainland and about south of Taiwan ( Pingtung County). Batanes is separated from the Babuyan Islands of Cagayan Province by the Balintang Channel, and from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel. Etymology The name ''Batanes'' is a Hispanicized plural form derived from the Ivatan endonym ''Batan''. History Early history The ancestors of today's Ivatans descended from Austronesians who migrated to the islands 4,000 years ago during the Neolithic period. They lived in fortified mountain areas called '' idjangs'' and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Barangays In Batanes
The province of Batanes has 29 barangays comprising its 6 municipalities. Barangays References {{Batanes Batanes Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes (; Ilocano: ''Probinsia ti Batanes''; , ), is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It is the northernmost province in the Philippines, an ... Populated places in Batanes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cagayan Valley
Cagayan Valley (; ), designated as Region II, is an Regions of the Philippines, administrative region in the Philippines. Located in the northeastern section of Luzon, it is composed of five Provinces of the Philippines, Philippine provinces: Batanes, Cagayan, Isabela (province), Isabela, Nueva Vizcaya, and Quirino. The region hosts four chartered cities: Cauayan, Isabela, Cauayan, Ilagan, Santiago, Isabela, Santiago, and Tuguegarao (the regional center and largest city). Most of its land area lies in the valley between the Cordillera Central (Luzon), Cordilleras and the Sierra Madre (Philippines), Sierra Madre mountain ranges. The eponymous Cagayan River, the country's largest and longest, runs through the region, flows from the Caraballo Mountains, and ends in Aparri. Cagayan Valley is the second-largest Philippine administrative region by land area. According to a literacy survey in 2019, 93% of Cagayan Valley's citizens (ages 10 to 64) are Functional literacy, functionally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basco, Batanes
Basco, officially the Municipality of Basco (; Ilocano: ''Ili ti Basco''; ), is a municipality and capital of the province of Batanes, Philippines. In the 2020 census, it had a population of 9,517 people. Basco is the most populous town in Batanes and is located on Batan Island, the second largest among the ''Batanes Islands'', the northernmost group of islands of the Philippines. The town has a domestic airport, Basco Airport, that serves flights from Manila, Tuguegarao, and Itbayat. The Basco Lighthouse is one of the landmarks. Etymology The town is named after Capitán General José Basco, who led the pacification and conquest of the islands during his term as governor-general. Geography The municipality has a land area of constituting of the total area of Batanes. Barangays Basco is politically subdivided into 6 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios. The ''sitio'' of Diptan was converted into a ''barrio'', known as San Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itbayat, Batanes
Itbayat, officially the Municipality of Itbayat, (; Ilocano: ''Ili ti Itbayat''; ), is a municipality in the province of Batanes, Philippines. In the 2020 census, it had a population of 3,128 people. Itbayat is the country's northernmost municipality, located from the southernmost tip of Taiwan. By land area, the main island of Itbayat is the largest in Batanes. The municipality includes the rest of the province's northern islands, all small and mostly uninhabited. These islands are, from south to north: Di'nem Island, Siayan, Misanga, Ah'li, and Mavulis Island, the northernmost island of the Philippine archipelago. History A church and civil government were established in Batan Island in 1783. In 1855, civil authority was established and the mission canonically founded in Itbayat. A settlement during the Spanish colonial period, it became a municipal district when the Americans organized the province in 1909. Finally, in 1935, it became a municipality. On September 14, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabtang
Sabtang, officially the Municipality of Sabtang (; ilocano language, Ilocano: ''Ili ti Sabtang''; ), is a municipality of the Philippines, municipality in the Philippine Province, province of Batanes, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 1,696 people. Sabtang is the southernmost island municipality in the Batanes Group of Islands. It consists primarily of ''Sabtang Island'' and two smaller and uninhabited islands nearby, namely, Ivuhos and Dequey. The municipality is known for its Sabtang Lighthouse, lighthouse and the old stone houses of the Ivatan people, Ivatan villages of Chavayan and Savidug. Like Batan Island to the north, Sabtang also has a few Mission-style churches and white sand beaches. History The Spanish missionary, Father Artiquez, first visited the island of Sabtang in 1786González Alonzo, Fr. Julio, O.P. (1966). "The Batanes Islands", in Acta Manilana, Manila: University of Santo Tomas Research Center after receiving an affirmative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative District Of Batanes
The legislative districts of Batanes are the representations of the Provinces of the Philippines, province of Batanes in the List of legislatures of the Philippines, various national legislatures of the Philippines. The province is currently represented in the House of Representatives of the Philippines, lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its Batanes's at-large congressional district, lone congressional district. History Batanes initially had two representatives, one elected and one appointed, to the Malolos Congress in 1898 Philippine legislative election, 1898; this remained so until 1899. It was later annexed to Cagayan as a sub-province, by virtue of Philippine Commission Act No. 209 on August 22, 1901, and was represented as part of the Cagayan's 1st congressional district, first district of Cagayan in the 1st Philippine Legislature starting in 1907. Upon its re-establishment as a regular province on May 20, 1909 by virtue of Act No. 1952, Batanes was gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batanes Provincial Board
The Batanes Provincial Board is the Sangguniang Panlalawigan (provincial legislature) of the Philippine province of Batanes. The members are elected via plurality-at-large voting: the province is divided into two districts, each sending three members to the provincial board; the electorate votes for three members, with the three candidates with the highest number of votes being elected. The vice governor is the ''ex officio'' presiding officer, and only votes to break ties. The vice governor is elected via the plurality voting system province-wide. District apportionment List of members An additional three ''ex officio'' members are the presidents of the provincial chapters of the Association of Barangay Captains, the Councilors' League, the Sangguniang Kabataan provincial president; the municipal and city (if applicable) presidents of the Association of Barangay Captains, Councilor's League and Sangguniang Kabataan, shall elect amongst themselves their provincial presidents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahatao
Mahatao, officially the Municipality of Mahatao (; Ilocano: ''Ili ti Mahatao''; ), is a municipality in the province of Batanes, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it had a population of 1,703 people. History Geography Mahatao is located at . According to the Philippine Statistics Authority, the municipality has a land area of constituting of the total area of Batanes. Barangays Mahatao is politically subdivided into 4 barangays. These barangays are headed by elected officials: Barangay Captain, Barangay Council, whose members are called Barangay Councilors. All are elected every three years. ''Hanib'' was corrected into ''Hañib'' by the Philippine Statistics Authority. Climate Demographics In the 2020 census, Mahatao had a population of 1,703. The population density was . Economy Government Local government Mahatao is part of the lone congressional district of the province of Batanes. It is governed by a mayor, designated as its loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Batan Island
Batan Island ( ) is the main island of Batanes, an archipelagic province in the Philippines. It is the second largest of the Batanes Islands, the northernmost group of islands in the Philippines. Geography Batan is a dumbbell-shaped volcanic island, part of the Luzon Volcanic Arc. The northern part of the island is dominated by the high active volcano, Mount Iraya, which last erupted in 1454."Iraya" . Retrieved on 2013-04-11. The lower portion of the island is the |
Ivatan Language
The Ivatan language, also known as Chirin nu Ivatan ("language of the Ivatan people"), is an Austronesian language spoken in the Batanes Islands of the Philippines. Although the islands are closer to Taiwan than to Luzon, it is not one of the Formosan languages. Ivatan is one of the Batanic languages, which are perhaps a primary branch of the Malayo-Polynesian family of Austronesian languages. The language of Babuyan Island (Ibatan) is sometimes classified as a dialect of the Ivatan language. Most of the Babuyan population moved to Batan Island and to Luzon mainland during the Spanish colonial period. The island became repopulated at the end of the 19th century with families from Batan, most of them speakers of one of the Ivatan dialects. Ivatan speakers are found outside their homeland, many of them settled in mainland Luzon particularly in nearby Cagayan Valley, Ilocandia, Cordillera Administrative Region, Central Luzon, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Mindoro and Palawan an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mount Iraya
Mount Iraya, is an active stratovolcano on Batan Island, and is the highest point in the province of Batanes, Philippines. It is adjacent to another volcanic edifice, Mount Matarem. Location Iraya is located on Batan Island, one of the islands in the province of Batanes, in the Luzon Strait, north of the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. It is the northernmost active volcano in the Philippines. Physical features Iraya is a heavily forested stratovolcano, with an elevation of asl, and a base diameter of . Volcanic activity While Mount Iraya last erupted in 1454, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) still considers it as one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines. In 1998, volcanologists recorded seismic swarms which led them to form a monitoring network on Batan Island for several months. After the swarms of tremors had diminished, the temporary stations in Barangay San Joaquin in Basco, Batanes and another near the crater, were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilou Cayco
Marilou Horlina Cayco is a Filipina politician serving as the current Governor of Batanes. She first won election to Governor in 2016 and was re-elected in 2019. References External linksProvince of BatanesOfficial Website Living people 21st-century Filipino politicians Governors of Batanes Women provincial governors of the Philippines Liberal Party (Philippines) politicians 1960 births {{philippines-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
