Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Prelature of Batanes is a prelature of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines and was created on November 30, 1950, comprising the civil province of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands group which belongs to the province of Cagayan. Its titular patron is Santo Domingo de Guzman whose feast the prelature celebrates on August 8. The island of Batanes is in the northernmost waters of the Philippine archipelago. It actually lies nearer Taiwan than the Philippine mainland, being only 222 kilometers from the tip of Taiwan, and 224 kilometers from Claveria, a town at the north of Cagayan province. It is also nearer Taipei than Manila. The province of Batanes is composed of 10 small islands, the total of which makes it the smallest province of the Philippines in terms of area and population.

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