Basco (also known as Santo Domingo de Basco) is a 5th class municipality in the province of Batanes, Philippines. It is the capital municipality of Batanes. Basco is located on Batan Island, the second largest island among the Batanes Islands which comprises the province, and are the northernmost islands of the Philippines. Basco has a domestic airport serving flights from Metro Manila. Image File history File links Map of Batanes showing the location of Basco, Batanes. ... A municipality (bayan, sometimes munisipalidad, in Filipino) is a local government unit in the Philippines. ... Map of the Philippines showing all the regions and their provinces. ... Batanes is the northernmost and the smallest, both in terms of population and land area, among the provinces of the Philippines. ... Batan island is the main island of the Batanes province, in the Philippines. ... Metropolitan Manila (Filipino: Kalakhang Maynila) or National Capital Region (NCR) is the seventh largest metropolitan area in terms of size in Asia, and the sixteenth in terms of population in the world. ...

According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 6,717 people in 1,469 households. This article is about the year 2000. ...

There is a yellow labrador retreiver in Seattle named after the municipality.

Barangays

Basco is politically subdivided into 6 barangays. A barangay also known as barrio (Filipino: baranggay , pronounced as ba-rang-gai, gai as in guy) is the smallest local government unit in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village,barrio, district, ward or town. ...

• Ihuvok II (Kayvaluganan)
• Ihuvok I (Kaychanarianan)
• San Antonio
• San Joaquin
• Chanarian
• Kayhuvokan

External links

• Philippine Standard Geographic Code
• 2000 Philippine Census Information