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  Bohol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
To the west of Bohol is Cebu, to the northeast is the island of Leyte and to the south, across the Bohol Sea is Mindanao.
Bohol, derived from the word Bo-ho or Bo-ol, is the seat of the first international treaty of peace and unity between Datu Sikatuna, a native chieftain and Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, a Spanish conquistador on March 16, 1565 through a blood compact known today as Sandugo.
This infuriated the population of Bohol and reignited the insurrection.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bohol   (1926 words)

  
 Bohol
To the west of Bohol is Cebu, to the northeast is Leyte and to the south, across the Bohol Sea is Mindanao.
Bohol is also where Carlos P. Garcia[?], the country's fourth president[?], came from.
The name Bohol is supposedly derived from Bo-ol, a small town in the vicinity of Tagbilaran City[?], and now a barangay.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Bohol.html   (1040 words)

  
 Philippine Provinces   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bohol island lies in the heart of the Visayas between Cebu to the northwest and Leyte to the northeast.
Bohol is known for the Chocolate Hills, a rolling terrain of 1,268 haycock hills with heights ranging from 40 to 120 meters spread throughout the towns of Carmen, Batuan, and Sagbayan.
Bohol is separated from Cebu by the Bohol Strait and from Leyte by the Canigao Channel, while the north coast is washed by the Camotes Sea, the south shores by the Mindanao Sea with Camiguin in view.
www.bpre.gov.ph /scripts/phistory.asp?codeprov=BH   (3867 words)

  
 Bohol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Scenic Bohol casts an enigmatic charm drawn from the many archaic mementos spread throughout the oval-shaped island - from unique rock formations to a 45-million-year-old mammal species, from massive stone watchtowers built by the Spaniards in the 18th century.
Located east of Cebu and southwest of Leyte in the Philippines' Central Visayas region, Bohol is bounded on the north by the Camotes Sea, on the west by the Cebu Strait, and on the South by the Bohol Sea.
Bohol can be reached daily by super fast sea ferries from Cebu, the regional transportation hub, although it can also be reached by direct flights and by ship from Manila, the international travel capital.
www.dotpcvc.gov.ph /Destinations/bohol.htm   (1739 words)

  
 Bohol: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
...Bohol Bohol Bohol is an island province of the Philippines located in the....
To the west of Bohol is Cebu, to the northeast is Leyte and to the south, across the Bohol...
It lies south of Bohol and Leyte and north of Mindanao.
www.encyclopedian.com /bo/Bohol.html   (1217 words)

  
 T o u r B o h o l . C o m - About Bohol
Bohol, in the heart of Central Visayas, is the 10th largest island in the country.
803 km south of Manila and 79 km southeast of Cebu, Bohol is the Heritage Province, the eco-cultural tourism destination of the new millenium.
Bohol is also a land of history, a land of heroes.
www.tourbohol.com /about.html   (1288 words)

  
 Bohol Map: DiscoverAsia.org
It must be asserted that there are plenty of historical structures still standing in Bohol, along with structures that have been constructed for the purpose of holding on to Bohol's history.
Bohol's history has indeed been a long one, involving different cultures, and these have each had their significant and relative impact on Bohol society; the impact can be seen in the form of structures that relate to influences of outsiders.
Bohol is known for its beauty, and its chocolate hills are extremely popular.
www.discoverasia.org /Philippines/boholmap.html   (526 words)

  
 TOONTOWN  COMES  TO  BOHOL'S  'NATURE  MONUMENT'
Rising amidst rice fields and coconut groves in six towns in the interior of the central island of Bohol, the grassy hills were once coral reefs that erupted from the sea in a massive geologic shift.
Even as tourist arrivals in Bohol were rising by at least 30 percent annually, to about 300,000 last year, many of Sagbayan’s 18,000 residents remain poor and illiterate.
Beyond the feeding frenzy, the Sagbayan mayor concedes that getting investors to actually put their money into the poorer parts of Bohol is complicated by communist guerrillas, who extort money from local officials.
www.newsflash.org /2004/02/hl/hl101622.htm   (745 words)

  
 Chocolate Hills - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Chocolate Hills is an unusual geological formation in the island province of Bohol in the Philippines.
The hills are scattered throughout the municipalities of Carmen, Batuan, and Sagbayan.
Plenty of tourist guides and tour operators will be happy to bring you to the chocolate hills, either as a separate trip or as part of a day tour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chocolate_Hills   (535 words)

  
 Bohol Philippines - General Information - Travelinternational.net
Scenic Bohol casts an enigmatic charm drawn from the many archaic momentos spread throughout the oval-shaped island - from unique rock formations to a 45-million-year-old mammal species, from massive stone watchtowers built by the Spaniards in the 18th century.
Volcanic eruptions caused unevenness in the bottom of the sea which was gradually smoothed and rounded by the movement of the water.
Tagbilaran City, the capital of Bohol is hidden from the open sea by the island of Panglao.
www.travelinternational.net /resorts/Bohol   (1715 words)

  
 G.R. No. 72719
Petitioner was then the Municipal Treasurer of Sagbayan, Bohol, a position he had occupied for seven (7) years.
Pursuant to a letter-complaint dated January 10, 1983 from a concerned citizen who exposed some illegal activities of certain municipal employees in the municipality of Sagbayan, Bohol, consisting of falsification of payrolls, the Regional Director of the Commission on Audit (COA) in Cebu City issued a memorandum in February 1983 to Atty.
Upon clarificatory questions, Abella admitted to Quiwag that the two payrolls for the cleaning and ditching of Bonifacio and Viva Streets in Sagbayan, Bohol, covering the periods from June I to 15, 1982 (Exhibit C) and June 16 to 30, 1982 (Exhibit D), were falsified.
www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1986/sep1986/gr_72719_1986.html   (3396 words)

  
 The Bohol Times -- The alternative for all climes -- March 30, 2003 Issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
After sleeping on the tourism potentials of the world-famous haycock hills, Sagbayan is now staking its claim to a share of the market.
Torrefranca said he had been fascinated by the sight of the hills since he was a boy but never got the chance to do much about that until early this year.
Torrefranca said Sagbayan Peak still has a long way to go and does not intend to compete with the viewing station in Carmen town.
www.boholtimes.com /daan2003/may112003/around7.htm   (555 words)

  
 Sagbayan View Deck, Bohol
Café Baudillo is an imposing structure on Sagbayan Peak, with its spacious veranda and congenial ambience.
Sagbayan before, was known as an ambush area.
For owned vehicles, the fastest and safest route is to take your vehicle to the left on the highway road from Tagbilaran port via Bohol north road (which is actually located at the western side shores of Bohol (facing Cebu).
www.waypoints.ph /detail_gen.html?wpt=sgbayn   (738 words)

  
 The Bohol Times -- The alternative for all climes -- January 25, 2004 Issue   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
SAGBAYAN, Bohol – One CAFGU member was killed while two soldiers were slightly wounded when government soldiers clashed twice with New People’s Army (NPA) rebels Thursday morning in two barangays in this town about 79 kilometers northwest of Tagbilaran City.
Mendez said the rebels numbering between 30 to 40, believed to be part of the NPA’s Front 1 in Bohol, were led by a certain Ka Boning.
He noted that the rebels were completely caught by surprise as evidenced by the back packs, hammocks, documents and even bullets that they left behind.
www.boholtimes.com /daan2004/jan252004/front6.htm   (528 words)

  
 The Official Website of The Bohol Chronicle
The warning was issued by Gov. Erico Aumentado last night after returning from an ocular inspection at the quarry site situated in a secluded area in the boundaries of Carmen, Sagbayan and Dagohoy towns.
He said that the Cebu daily was misled by whoever is the source of their photo since there was no extraction going on in any of the 1,247 Chocolate Hills situated in 17 barangays in Carmen and another 17 in Sagbayan town and two barangays in Batuan.
Aumentado, when interviewed by the Chronicle right after inspection said that the site of the illegal extraction is far from the Chocolate Hills which he estimated to be no less than 12 kilometers from the site.
www.boholchronicle.com /may06/5-21-06/major1.htm   (381 words)

  
 Directory | INDEX: M - Bohol's No. 1 Internet Business Directory
Lila is a town on the southern coast of Bohol, twenty-eight and a half kilometers from Tagbilaran.
Loay is on the southwestern coast of Bohol, eighteen kilometers (18) from Tagbilaran City.
MABINI, is one of the coastal towns of Bohol which is located in the eastern part of the island-province.
www.boholdirectory.com /index-M-1.html   (681 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - A life less ordinary
Looking for greener pastures, his family then moved to Sagbayan, Bohol where his father worked as one of the staff of a bottling company.
Sagbayan is an interior town located 76 kilometers off Bohol’s capital city, Tagbilaran, and is notoriously known for intensive insurgency by some militant groups in the area.
There were many of them that fateful night but only three of them were caught and underwent the rigors inside the military camp since the rest were relatives of the latter.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2004/12/14/life/a.life.less.ordinary.html   (1300 words)

  
 Bohol - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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Bohol | Cebu | Negros Oriental | Siquijor
You can find it there under the keyword Bohol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohol)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boholandaction=history).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Bohol   (1156 words)

  
 Bohol (Tarsier, Choco Hills& Panglao Is) - photos of scenery in Bohol on Worldisround
Scenery in Bohol - travel photos - Bohol is home to some of the country's sublimely surreal natural wonders.
Bohol is home to some of the country's sublimely surreal natural wonders.
Being endemic in limited forest pockets in Bohol and having the status of an...
www.worldisround.com /articles/206565   (335 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cebu - Echaves: Revisiting Bohol
I had visited Bohol a number of times during my father’s assignment there as regional trial court judge.
Seeking Bohol’s caves, ravines, falls and rivers might’ve been pleasurable then, too, but never got into our agenda.
The Sagbayan Peak was inviting, whether for its clean trail to the viewing deck the better on which to appreciate the natural wonder called Chocolate Hills, or for its butterfly and botanical sanctuary.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/ceb/2004/08/04/oped/lelani.p..echaves.html   (669 words)

  
 BlogSpot Photos: A Visit to a Butterfly Farm -> Sagbayan, Bohol
I have to admit that despite living in Bohol for most of my childhood, and now since last 2003, I have not been to all nooks and corners of the island.
I took the pictures inside the butterfly dome and sanctuary within the Sagbayan Peak premises.
I did not know that there are such bueautiful butterfies in Bohol.
www.accesspinoy.net /blog/photos/01020601.asp   (254 words)

  
 :: Welcome to Manila Bulletin Online ::
Police believed that the motive of the killing was rivalry between two fraternities in the area.
SAGBAYAN, Bohol — A soldier was killed and two others were wounded when government troops clashed with suspected members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in barangays San Roque and Cabadbaran, this town last Thursday.
Last year, at least seven suspected members of the NPA and one government soldier were believed killed in two separate firefights in the towns of Danao and Inabanga in Bohol.
www.mb.com.ph /issues/2004/01/23/PROV20040123556.html   (603 words)

  
 Toontown comes to Bohol’s Chocolate Hills - INQ7.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
SAGBAYAN, Bohol, Philippines -- Mother Nature took two million years to grind and blend the Chocolate Hills of Bohol, a spectacular formation among a paddy sea of emerald in the central Philippines.
Bohol, a sleepy island of 1.2 million people and three traffic lights.
Provincial tourism officer Baby Balio said Bohol now has just over 1,000 hotel beds, missing the hundreds of thousands more tourists who make day trips by ferry from nearby Cebu -- the country's number-two city -- for scuba diving, whale-watching or for a short dip at the beach.
news.inq7.net /breaking/index.php?index=2&story_id=24445   (910 words)

  
 Sagbayan Peak
There are two ways to go around Bohol - move about in every nook and cranny, spending a lot; or, choose to be in newly developed visitor sites and spend less.
To experience the best of Bohol is to first partake of their fiesta celebration.
After 40 minutes of travel, we were at Sagbayan Peak, a new viewing structure in the town of Sagbayan - one of three towns where the famous haycock hills of Bohol are scattered.
www.thefreeman.com /lifestyle/story-20041128-25152.html   (697 words)

  
 Bohol 2004
Gallery #01: Tagbilaran City -...is the city capital of Bohol.
Gallery #02: Bohol Tour - The O.C. crew caravans through the western and interior parts of the island for some sightseeing.
Gallery #05: Dive Bohol - Bohol is one of the best-kept secret dive spots in Asia, although an aggressive marketing of the island's tourism industry may rapidly change the popularity of this dive haven.
www.bitog.com /08_Adventures/Bohol/20040702_Bohol/20040702_Bohol.htm   (548 words)

  
 L I N K S :: Tourist Attractions :: Tourism Sites
Discreetly located and nestled in lush greens and quiet paths, guests can commune with nature and relax from stresses and strains of daily life, the Bohol Bee Farm is truly a gem.
Dolphin Watch Pamilacan and the Marine Life Tour is owned and managed by the Pamilacan Island Dolphin and Whale Watching Organization (PIDWWO), with the objective of marine life conservation and assistance to the Pamilacan local community.
Caring for the Whales and Dolphins of Bohol and the Philippines
www.bohol.gov.ph /links/tourist_attractions/tourism_sites.html   (231 words)

  
 Chocolate Hills: proposed site for golf course - INQ7.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
CEBU CITY, Cebu, Philippines -- Bohol Gov. Erico Aumentado has given his full support to the plan of Sagbayan Mayor Jimmy Torrefranca to build a golf course on the world-famous Chocolate Hills.
Aumentado said he agreed with Torrefranca that the existence of a golf course in Sagbayan would benefit the people in the area.
Aumentado said the golf course project in Sagbayan will be included in the master plan.
news.inq7.net /regions/index.php?index=1&story_id=24866   (328 words)

  
 Bohol on 43 Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
i’ve been to bohol twice.That means i’ve been to the chocolate hills twice, rode on the floating restaurant twice, saw tarsiers and visited panglao beach resort.
Bohol is just a few hours away from Cebu and yet, I never get to step into that island for 24 years of my existence.
So, before I turn 25 (that would be this June), I should in Bohol having a photoshot with the tarsiers.
www.43places.com /places/view/203288   (470 words)

  
 Overview of NGO's in Bohol
Sagbayan San Isidro San Miguel Sevilla Sierra Bullones Sikatuna
Overview of public interest organisations in or related to Bohol.
Please report any corrections and additions to the webmaster@bohol.ph, or add them in the comment field at the bottom of this page.
www.bohol.ph /article103.html   (624 words)

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