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	Batanes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Province of Batanes is the northernmost and the smallest province of the Philippine Republic, both in terms of population and land area.
		The Batanes Islands are separated from the Babuyan Islands of Cagayan Province by the Balintang Channel and from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel.
		Batan island, with a land area of 35 km², is generally mountainous on the north and southeast.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Batanes (1514 words)

	BatanesOnline.com
		We were told Batanes is the smallest Philippine province in terms of population and land area (209 sq km, half of which are hills and mountains).
		Batanes is the northernmost cluster of islands in the Philippines, home of the typhoons, closer to Taiwan than to the Philippine mainland (190 km south of Taiwan, and 280 km from Aparri).
		Batanes was therefore as remote from the mainland as it was in culture and language.
	www.batanesonline.com /Features/Batanes_On_The_Rise.htm (1385 words)

	Batanes (Philippine Destinations) - GoPilipinas.com
		The province is home to the famous Ivatans who are nationally acclaimed as the ¡°True Insulares.¡± The Ivatans are of Malay stock, tracing their roots to early immigrants from Formosa, Taiwan as well as Spaniards who came to the island in the 16th century.
		Batanes lies at the northernmost tip of the Philippines, where the Pacific Ocean merges with the South China Sea.
		The mother tongue of Batanes is Ivatan, spoken by 93.94 percent of all households.
	www.gopilipinas.com /v2/travel/tour_batanes.htm (483 words)

	Uyugan, Batanes! On the Web! Batanes
		Batanes is an archipelago that lies in the northernmost part of the Philippines.
		Batanes' annual precipitation varies, but is highest in the north and lowest in the south.
		Situated southwest of Batan Island are the waters of Sabtang and the islands, one of the richest fishing grounds in all of Batanes, where Isabtangs along with other Ivatans engaged in coastal fishing.
	www.uyuganbatanes.com /batanes.html (1203 words)

	All About Batanes - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Batanes is the Philippines´nothernmost province, lying in a vast expanse of water where the Pacific Ocean on the east merges with the south China Sea on the west.
		Batanes, the smallest province in the Philippines in terms of population and land area, is composed of ten islands and islets located about 270 kilometers north of mainland Luzon and 161 kilometers from the southernmost point of Taiwan.
		Batan even has its own language.But for the hardy traveller, the sparsely-populated island group is a trekker's paradise, a time-warp to which birds migrate in their thousands to escape the Siberian winter.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=11363 (3394 words)

	chapt2
		The Batanes; are located in the northernmost part of the Philippine Archipelago: 483 kilometers from Manila, 224 kilometers from the southernmost tip of Taiwan, and 161 kilometers from the mainland of Luzon.
		The islands of the province are Mavodis, Misanga, Ditarem, Siayan, Itbayat, Dinom, Ivatan, Sabtang, Ivohos, and Jikey.
		Its status as an independent province and as an independent electoral district is based on the isolation of the Batanes from the rest of the Philippine archipelago.
	www.uga.edu /~asian-lp/jpn_html/yami/chapt2.html (7466 words)

	The Provincial Profile of Batanes
		Batanes was annexed to the colony the following year but the inhabitants remained unreconciled to their loss of liberty.
		The islands were constituted into a separate province but it was later downgraded to the status of a town and attached to the province of Cagayan.
		Batanes has one of the highest literacy rates in the country and its labor force of close to 10,000 is highly-skilled, highly-trained and hardworking.
	www.geocities.com /lppsec/pp/batanes.htm (1242 words)

	Batanes, Philippines
		The Batanes island group is the smallest province in the Philippines in terms of population and land area.
		Batanes lies in the vast waters of the Pacific ocean where the Pacific meets China sea.
		Since Batanes is separated from the country by miles of rough waters, the Ivatans (the name of the people of Batanes) have developed a different culture.
	www.philsite.net /batanes.htm (574 words)

	Luzon Strait
		It contains a number of small islands and island groups, including the Batanes Islands[?] under the Philippine province of Batanes[?] and the Babuyan Islands, under the province of Cagayan[?].
		The Babuyan Channel[?] separates Luzon from the Babuyan Islands, which is separated from the Batanes Islands by the Balintang Channel[?].
		Batanes is separated from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel[?].
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/lu/Luzon_Strait.html (182 words)

	About Culture and Arts
		The Batanes group of islands is the northernmost province of the Philippines.
		Batanes is classified as having Type A climate, a pleasant semi-temperate climate.
		Batanes have a literacy rate of 95% higher than the national average of 93%.
	www.ncca.gov.ph /about_cultarts/comarticles.php?artcl_Id=226 (1467 words)

	CLT: New pilot site action plans
		Batanes is a story of islands rising from the depths of the sea due to volcanic activity and coral uplifts- how life forms begin in these islands fathered by the currents of meeting seas and passing winds from other lands.
		Batanes is located in the northernmost part of the Philippines and consists of ten islands.
		Batanes will be a center of excellence in sustainable tourism that will catalyze, promote, and ensure conservation of her heritage toward sustainable development.
	www.unescobkk.org /index.php?id=2361 (815 words)

	-=NASUD Philippines=- Culture - Northern Luzon
		Located 860 kilometers from Manila, it is the least populated and smallest province of the country occupying a total of 230 square kilometers and inhabiting almost 15,000 people.
		Batan Island is the most populated since Basco, the province’s capital, is located here.
		It is the point of entry to the province, housing both the airport and the main seaport.
	www.aznpride.de /nasud/culture/luzon.html (1051 words)

	Philippine National Records - Records to Break in the Philippines
		The next largest provinces in the country are Isabela, with a land area of 10,664 square kilometers; and Cagayan, 9,002 square kilometers.
		Cebu province, including its 6 cities, had a total population of 3.1 million as of 2000, the highest among the country's 79 provinces.
		Other provinces in the list of the 10 poorest are Ifugao, which had a poverty incidence of 55.6 percent; Romblon, 55.2 percent; Maguindanao; 55.1 percent; Lanao del Sur, 55 percent; Sultan Kudarat, 54.3 percent; Camiguin, 53.1 percent; and Camarines Norte, 52.7 percent.
	www.txtmania.com /trivia/national.php (1010 words)

	Shaped by the Winds: The Ivatans' Struggle Against Natural Elements - CULTURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Ivatans, the inhabitants of Batanes, are precisely that.
		The Batanes Islands were referred to as "the typhoon islands" by ancient seafarers because of the devastating winds that frequently strike them.
		Batanes, therefore, is the stormiest place in the Philippines, a country that averages twenty-one tropical cyclones a year and is recognized as having the highest
	www.worldandihomeschool.com /public_articles/1990/august/wis17039.asp (435 words)

	New Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Batanes islands are surrounded by the Pacific Ocean in the east, the China Sea on the west and the Balintang and Bashi Channels on the south and north, respectively.
		The total land area of Batanes is estimated at 23,000 hectares, or 230 square kilometers.
		Batanes, in contrast to its small land area, has vast territorial waters of about 450,000 hectares.
	www.batanesinteractive.net /mybatanes.asp (634 words)

	Tourists urged to have a blast in Batanes - 9/14/06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Batanes is known for its centuries-old stone houses and churches, lush hills and cliffs, and friendly folk called Ivatan.
		Past experiences have shown that the weather in Batanes as projected in Manila is hardly the way it is in the far-flung province, he said.
		Beth Valones, a native of Rizal province who has lived in Ivana for eight years, said the locals were often “happy” to hear an announcement of a storm because the wind would then be strong enough to cause coconuts to fall and logs to be washed down from the mountains for easy picking.
	services.inq7.net /print/print.php?article_id=20897 (1007 words)

	Batanes,Philippines-Traveltipid.com
		The outpost of the Philippines in the middle of a turbulent sea, Batanes province comprises the northernmost isles of the Philippines.
		William Dampier, an English buccaneer, visited Batanes in 1687 and found the people organized into communities built around protected settlements called idjangs, which were usually defensive positions on top of steep hills.
		In 1909, by virtue of Act 1952, Batanes was again established as a separate province.Because of its strategic location, the Batanes was one of the first points of attack by the invading Japanese forces at the start of the Pacific hostilities of the Second World War.
	www.traveltipid.com /local/batanes/index.html (398 words)

	"Batanes, the Philippines smallest province"
		The Batanes Archipelago lies on the northernmost tip of the Philippines, on a vast expanse of surging waters where the Pacific Ocean meets the China Sea.
		Batanes is the Philippines' smallest province both in terms of area (21,099 hectares) and population (14,663).
		That Batanes is constantly battered by typhoons is a myth; when a typhoon does come, it lashes with a velocity that can break the barometer.
	www.livinginthephilippines.com /philippine_articles/batanes.html (1004 words)

	"REGION II"
		The islands of Batanes were settled by the Ivatans, an indigenous ethnic group that was Christianized in 1685 by the Dominican friars.
		The province of Isabela originally consisted of the area known as Irraya (from Cagan to Ilagan), Diffun (from Gamu to Cauyan), and Paniqui (from Cauyan to Nueva Vizcaya).
		The tribes of the province are gradually adopting Christianity due to the missionary work of both the Catholic and the Protestant churches of the highlands.
	www.livinginthephilippines.com /region2.html (1767 words)

	Manila Bulletin Online
		Batanes offers all forms of excitement to a lensman whether he is an amateur or a professional: upright coral reefs, grassy terrain, picturesque hills, mountains and valleys, turbulent seascapes, very friendly Ivatans, unique architecture.
		Because of this, it is not unusual for Batanes waters to be invaded by illegal fisherman from Taiwan.
		Though Batanes is a great part of Luzon and is geographically separated by its deadly meeting point between the Pacific Ocean and the China Sea.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2006/08/08/PIPE2006080870737.html (519 words)

	Around Luzon Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Batanes Islands are the northernmost islands of the Philippines.
		is the capital of the province of Batanes, which is the smallest in the Philippines, both in area and population.
		Also known as the land of the 'howling winds', The province consists of the main island and a few smaller ones, the most important of which are Panay to the northeast and the Palumbanes Islands to the northwest.
	web.1asphost.com /filcom/13J-PhilBestPlace-AroundLuzon.htm (1534 words)

	BatanesOnline.com
		This is the strongest word that a new Provincial Governor, then a political neophyte, articulated when he took the helm in the Province of Batanes on the 1st of July, 1998.
		Governor Gato was devoid of ambiguity in making known to the people the fiscal position of the province so that any perceptions of graft and corruption would be eradicated at an early stage.
		Delivered every 26th of June, the Batanes Day, the SOPA is a comprehensive presentation of all the accomplishments of the different departments of the provincial government and expounds on the level of implementation of hard and soft infrastructure projects.
	www.batanesonline.com /Opinion/Transparency.htm (1728 words)

	Uyugan, Batanes! On the Web! Batanes
		is an island municipality that lies in the waters north of Batan Island.
		The main island is the largest of the three inhabited islands that comprise the province of Batanes.
		It became a municipality upon the proclamation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935.
	www.uyuganbatanes.com /itbayat.html (178 words)

	Philippines Provinces
		The first two digits of each province code are the same as its region code, so the province codes in those regions have also changed; however, their last two digits are unchanged.
		The assignment of provinces to regions has remained the same, except for one thing: all the provinces that were in Cordillera Administrative Region according to the draft standard have been put in Eastern Visayas region, leaving Cordillera empty - obviously a mistake.
		The new province consists of 10 of the 29 municipalities of Maguindanao: Barira, Buldon, Datu Blah Sinsuat, Datu Odin Sinsuat, Kabuntalan, Matanog, Parang, Sultan Kudarat, Sultan Mastura, and Upi.
	www.statoids.com /uph.html (3908 words)

	:: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online ::
		Batanes, a favorite destination for adventure lovers, used to be “isolated” with other provinces in the Philippines.
		The Philippines’ northernmost province, Batanes is nearer to Taiwan than to any part of the country.
		Razon-Abad said her office has facilitated the nomination of Batanes as a World Heritage Site to the United, Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an initiative of her husband and former Batanes Rep. Florencio "Butch" Abad wit the national Commission on Indigenous People and the provincial and municipal governments.
	www.mb.com.ph /issues/2005/02/25/TOUR2005022529538.html (580 words)

	P H O T O N S K I . C O M - melovillareal
		The province is home to the famous Ivatans who are nationally acclaimed as the True Insulares.
		The spirit of the Batanes folks should engulf those of the islands to the south of it, from Luzon to Mindanao, and be the spirit that will provide for the progress and dignity of Bansang Malaya, still known ast the Philippines.
		Batanes is one of the reasons why I love our country.
	www.photonski.com /melovillareal/batanes1 (3480 words)

	Batanes Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		is the smallest and most sparsely populated province of the Philippines.
		The extreme climate, with its monsoon and typhoons has shaped the islands and their people.
		On Batan, the most important of the islands, lush jungle surrounds the dormant Iriya volcano, 3300 ft high, Basco, the provicial capital has a Mediterrance air, with its narrow streets and alleyways, its 18th century church and houses adorned with white balconies.
	www.regit.com /regitour/philipin/intplace/batanes.htm (163 words)

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