Libmanan Caves Park
Libmanan, Camarines Sur
Libmanan Caves National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in Barangay Sigamot in the municipality of Libmanan, Camarines Sur in Bicol Region. It is centered on the massive 2,856 meter-long Colapnitan Cave, the tenth longest cave in the Philippines.
The park itself covers a total area of 19.4 hectares across the hilly farmlands of Libmanan, known to host at least 18 ...
more limestone caves of varying lengths, shapes and wonder. It was established in 1934 by virtue of Proclamation No. 654.
The park is famous as the habitat of thousand of bats whose guano has been gathered from the cave for decades. It is also home to swiftlets and some great long-armed spiders of the species Phrynus, known to be poisonous.
Libmanan Caves National Park News
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Exploring The Wonderful Libmanan Caves In Naga City
The Libmanan Caves is located within a national park that is near the town of Libmanan, Camarines Sur about 20 kilometers northwest of the City of Naga in the Bicol Region of the Philippines. As for the park itself, it covers 19 hectares of protected land across the hilly farmlands and is known to host at least 18 limestone caves of varying shapes, lengths and wonders. The park was established by virtue of Proclamation No. 654 in 1934.
Tourists are drawn to this place because of the caves' countless stalagmites, stalactites and massive pillars that have extremely delicate formations and des ... -
Bicol seen as prime beneficiary of DENRs protected areas ecotourism rule
The guidelines recently issued by the Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources governing the conservation and use of protected areas with great potential for ecotourism development will primarily benefit Bicol, according to a regional official.
The guidelines issued by DENR Sec. Ramon Paje provide mechanisms toward the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources in areas with ecotourism importance such as terrestrial, coastal or marine, caves and wetland ecosystems.
The DAO is very much suited to Bicol, a region seen as boundless in terms of natural wonders distributed among ... -
DOT Lists 78 Ecotourism Sites Not Open To Mining Operations
The Department of Tourism (DOT) has released its list of 78 ecotourism sites will be closed to mining as part of governments plan to boost their tourism potential for revenue and jobs generation.
Lumped into 20 clusters, the Tourism Development Areas (TDA) are mostly long recognized as protected areas (PA) being natural parks (NP), marine reserve (MR), protected landscape (PL), wildlife sanctuary (WS), protected seascape (PS), protected landscape-seascape (PLS), watershed reservation (WR), or watershed forest reservation (WFR).
Aside from DOT, other government agencies like the Parks and ... -
Government acts to stop destruction of caves
For years, caves have been neglected. People continue to abuse these magnificent and wonderful creations of nature. Their resources have been overexploited, resulting in their destruction. Several of them are now on the verge of extinction and only a few remain intact and conserved.
Caves are naturally occurring cavities, recesses or systems of interconnected passages beneath the surface of the earth that are large enough for human entry. They range from only a few meters to hundreds of kilometers in length. They are formed either from the movements of molten lava or underground erosion of ...