Batanes
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Batanes, officially the Province of Batanes, is an archipelagic province in the Philippines, administratively part of the Cagayan Valley region. It is the northernmost province in the Philippines, and
Sabtang Batanes
Chawa Viiew Deck, Batanes
Street in Port Tachimos
The Famous Rolling Hills of Batanes
Ivatan people
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The Ivatan people are an Austronesian ethnolinguistic group native to the Batanes and Babuyan Islands of the northernmost Philippines. They are genetically closely related to other ethnic groups in No
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…from Taiwan by the Bashi Channel. The name Batanes is the Spanish collective name of the islands. It is the Spanish plural form of Batan, the native Ivatan name of the main populated island of the group. Older European sources may refer to the Batanes Islands as the "Bashi" Islands (also spelled variously…
An Ivatan woman
An Ivatan man fresh from work
A Sinadumparan Ivatan house, one of the oldest structures in the Batanes islands. The house is made of limestone and coral and its roofing of cogon grass.