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Traditional Ivatan houses are made with stone or rubble masonry. The viewing deck is a perfect location to view the whole of Batan Island (the main island where Basco is located) from end to end, including Mount Iraya. [7] One can also have a clear view of Sabtang Island in the south of Basco and Itbayat Island to the north.
Sabtang, officially the Municipality of Sabtang (Ivatan: Kavahayan nu Sabtang; Ilocano: Ili ti Sabtang; Tagalog: Bayan ng Sabtang), is a municipality in the province of Batanes, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 1,696 people. [4] Sabtang is the southernmost island municipality in the Batanes Group of Islands.
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. Before Spaniards arrived in the Philippines, Ivatans built their houses from cogon grass. These homes were small, well-situated, and designed to protect against strong winds.
Ivatan architecture is found in both the northernmost islands of Batanes and Babuyan, and a subset of its vernacular common house (sinadumparan) architecture are unique within the country for its predominantly stone structure - a protective, durable element from the particularly storm and earthquake-wrought landscape of the region.
In 1994, Eusebio Dizon, the deputy director of the National Museum of the Philippines, went to Batanes with his team for an archeological project. They found a triangular-shaped hill in Savidug, a town in Sabtang. These structures were called ijang. [3] [2] Ijangs are similar to the gusuku castles found in Okinawa, Japan. Aside from both of ...
Schools in Batanes (1 P) U. ... Sabtang Lighthouse This page was last edited on 11 June 2014, at 18:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
An Ivatan woman, 2007. The Ivatan (also spelled as Ibatan) are the predominant ethnolinguistic group in the Batanes islands of the Philippines. They have close cultural links with the Taiwanese aborigines, especially the Yami/Tao people of Orchid Island under jurisdiction of Taiwan. They speak Ivatan language, & also Ilocano as second language ...
Sinadumparan Ivatan House Types: Ivatan people of Batanes province Ivatan Basketry: Ivatan people of Batanes province Torogan – Royalty House: Maranao people of Lanao del Sur province The Torogan Royalty House has been cited as one of the traditional craftsmanship elements of the Philippines that may be nominated by the government for urgent ...