Batanes Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
province of the Philippines
About Batanes
Batanes lies off the northern coastline of mainlandLuzon, and is an archipelago composed of three inhabited islands and other smaller islands. It is the northernmost, smallest, and least populated province of the Philippines. The province is bordered by Babuyan Islands to the south, the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) to the west,Taiwanto the north, and the Philippine Sea to the east. Due to its extreme location and proximity to Taiwan, signals from Chinese-language radio stations to the north reach the province. Batanes is very prone to typhoons, and is an important reference point for typhoon tracking by the Philippine meteorological agency, PAGASA, which maintains a weather station at the provincial capital in Basco. The islands are the homeland of theIvatan, an isolated ethnic gr
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