Lapinig Island

President Carlos P. Garcia, Bohol

Lapinig Island is located in Bohol province at the north east end of the island.

Lapinig may look dull and boring on the surface but what is underwater is a different story. It is an action packed world down there.

There is a mild current feeding corals off the edge of a sandy slope including butterflyfish, angelfish, anemonefish, groupers, striped fish, trumpets, ant ...

hias, nudis, bristle worms and others. Soft and hard corals, sea fans, feather stars and sponges add colors to the scenery.

Lapinig Island News

  • Return to the Depths of Balingoan Banaug Shoal and Lapinig Island

    Return to the Depths of Balingoan Banaug Shoal and Lapinig Island

    For two main reasons, the lesser known town of Balingoan is one of my favorite places in the Philippines for scuba diving. First is of course because of its rich marine life; and second, the absence of the usual tourist traffic that the other known dive sites get. These two translate to dive sites that are generally unspoiled and unexploited! The chances of sighting huge crowd of humans is close to zero. After all, we dive to see marine species and not humans

    Balingoan is situated in Misamis Oriental, two hours north of Cagayan de Oro City. It is well known as the gateway to Camiguin, for i ...

  • Electricity on the island

    Barangay Lapinig, a small island barangay located west of Pres. Carlos P. Garcia (PCPG) town in Bohol, is comprised of 150 families that rely on fishing and farming as sources of livelihood. To get there, one has to take a 15-20 minute pumpboat ride from the mainland.

    When the Kapit-Bisig Laban sa Kahirapan-Comprehensive and Integrated Delivery of Social Services (Kalahi-CIDSS) project arrived in Bohol in 2005, Lapinig proposed for an electrification project for its community, Eventually, it was ranked first in project prioritization during the Municipal Inter-Barangay Forum (MIBF), out of ...

  • Energy sector assures power to keep Bohol growth momentum

    Making sure that the economic growth momentum is sustained, Governor Edgar Chatto generated assurances from the power sector while looking at the future of investments in Bohol.

    Aside from dreaming of becoming a strong eco-cultural tourism destination in the country, Boholanos also envision an aggressive agro-industrial economy that has the potential to sap all available energies the province may need.

    With this, in a meeting with the key power sector, Governor Edgar Chatto said energy authorities have assured a sustainable power supply in support of local industries.

    In the same meet ...

  • Fly in and Fly out of Lapinig

    We had a chance to go to Lapinig Island in Bohol last December 21 for a just a day. We went by motorized banca going there from under the first bridge in Mandaue and by boat from Ubay on the way back.

    Lapinig is an island baranggay of Pitogo, which is also an island municipality of Bohol. It is located on the northeastern side of Bohol mainland. Going there is approximately 3.5hrs via motorized banca, the only method of transport plying the route.

    This date was about two days from the last storm that visited the Philippines, so the roughness of the open seas going there has abated a bit, ...