Anda Lagoon

Overview

Anda Lagoon is a large fishpond in Barangay Suba, Anda municipality, classified by the Bohol Provincial Tourism Office under Marine Park / Lakes and Pond / Fishery. Set within green agricultural and coastal scenery, the lagoon functions as a working fishpond and is also used as a viewpoint — particularly for sunset photography. The White Heaven Hills lie nearby.

The lagoon is a working fishpond first and a viewpoint second — a common pairing in the Philippines, where aquaculture ponds double as scenery once the light turns low. It’s the contrast of still water against the White Heaven Hills that draws photographers at dusk. [TO ENRICH: lagoon dimensions, fish species raised, ownership or management entity.]

Location

Barangay Suba, Anda municipality, eastern Bohol. The White Heaven Hills are a nearby reference point. Anda Poblacion and Anda Beach are within the same municipality.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran, travel by bus or van to Jagna (approximately 2 hours), then habal-habal or van to Anda (30–45 minutes). From Anda Poblacion, hire a habal-habal to Barangay Suba. [FACT NEEDED: road distance and travel time from Anda Poblacion to Barangay Suba.]

Practical Info

[FACT NEEDED: entrance fee, public access arrangements, opening hours.] The lagoon is classified as a tourist attraction in the provincial inventory, suggesting visitor access is permitted. Best visited in late afternoon for sunset viewing.

What to Expect

An open expanse of water in a green setting, used as a fishpond. The main visitor activity is sunset photography. No swimming is indicated — the site is a fishpond rather than a recreational swimming lake. [TO ENRICH: viewpoint infrastructure, shade, parking.]

Notes

Source: Bohol Tourism Profile Eco Dev2025.pdf (BPTO Table 11 — Inventory of Tourist Attractions). Source description is brief (one sentence). Coordinates are approximate for Barangay Suba, Anda. [FACT NEEDED: lagoon dimensions, entrance fee, access arrangements — a good-faith web search found only generic Anda-area tourism copy that did not name or describe this specific lagoon; no usable independent facts were found.]

Research pass, 2026-07-28 (fresh angles, all remaining tags still unresolved): Tried source types not covered by the prior pass — no usable independent facts on lagoon dimensions, fish species, ownership/management, entrance fee, opening hours, road distance/travel time Poblacion→Suba, or viewpoint infrastructure/shade/parking were found from any of them.

• Fetched the primary source directly: Bohol Tourism Profile 2025 PDF (PPDO Bohol, accessed 2026-07-28) — the file is largely scanned/image-based content that did not yield extractable text for Table 11; a future pass should try manual page lookup or OCR rather than a text-extraction fetch.
• Checked TripAdvisor’s Anda listings (accessed 2026-07-28) — no “Anda Lagoon” attraction page or reviews found; Anda’s listed attractions are cave pools and beaches, not this lagoon.
• Checked Facebook for the Anda LGU, Anda Bohol Tourism Information Office, and barangay council pages (accessed 2026-07-28) — none reference a lagoon in Suba specifically.
• Checked Wikipedia: Anda, Bohol and PhilAtlas: Suba, Anda, Bohol (accessed 2026-07-28) for barangay-level distance/geography data — both give Suba’s coordinates and population only, no distance-from-Poblacion figure and no lagoon/fishpond mention.
• Checked the official Bohol Provincial Tourism site’s Anda page (accessed 2026-07-28) — lists cave pools, Quinale Beach, and Lamanok Island; no lagoon entry.
• Fetched a blog post titled “Explore Anda Lagoon, Bohol Philippines” (pinaywise.com, accessed 2026-07-28) — despite the title, the body is generic Anda-area copy with no lagoon-specific facts (SEO filler, not a real trip report).
• Note: a separate “mangrove-lined lagoon” is described in blogs in connection with paddleboat/canoe trips to Lamanok Island (a different Anda location, not Barangay Suba) — this appears to be a distinct feature from the Suba fishpond this entity describes, so it was not used as a source here to avoid conflating two different places.
• Searched Filipino/Cebuano terms (palaisdaan, tilapia, bangus) combined with Suba/Anda — no relevant hits.