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• The Church of St. Joseph the Worker, built in 1785 and renovated in 1844, is located in front of the town’s port.  It has 3-m. thick walls and was the only one not built in the espadaña style.  Its separate fortress-like bell tower, the only one in the province, has a crenellated top.  Here, Filipino revolutionaries hoisted their flag after renouncing their loyalty to Spain on September 1898.
• Hapnit, Mavaturu Point and Vatang all have white sand beaches.
• The House of Dakay, built in 1877, is the province's oldest traditional house.  It withstood the September 13, 1918 earthquake and the July 16, 2000 magnitude 7 earthquake.
• The Spanish era Tubal Bridge (or Bridge of San Jose) plus five other bridges, all built between 1850 and 1860 without the use of steel reinforcement.
• Maydangeb White Beach

• In 1686, Dominican Fr. Mateo Gonzales (appointed Vicar of Babuyanes) landed at Radiwan Point and set up the San Jose de Ivana mission out of Calayan (Babuyan Islands) which included all of present day Uyugan and Sabtang Island.
• Ivana was established as a unit of government in 1785
• On September 18, 1898, Katipuneros from Luzon, on the ship Compania Filipinas, landed at Radiwan.

Ivana is located on the southwestern part of Batan Island, on a narrow coastal plain between the foothills of Mount Matarem and the Sabtang Channel. Ivana is bounded by Mahatao on the north, the Balintang Channel on the south, Uyugan on the east and the Sabtang Channel and South China Sea on the west.

• Area (sq. kms.): 16.54 (5.13% of total land area and the country's smallest in terms of area)
• Population (2000): 1,181 Ivaneos (the country's smallest in terms of population)
  
• No. of Barangays: 4
  
• Income Class: Sixth
  
• Zip Code: 3902
  
• Area Code:

Distances (Ivana to:)

• Basco: 13.85 kms.

• May 1 (St. Joseph the Carpenter)