Anda Pool

Overview

Pool is a natural spring or spring-fed swimming area in the Municipality of Anda, Bohol, listed in the provincial tourist-attraction inventory. Anda sits on Bohol’s eastern peninsula, known for white-sand beaches, clear water, and freshwater features that include a falls and a lagoon. The entry carries no tourism type or category in the BPTO inventory, which points to a locally known informal site rather than a formally managed one.

The source record doesn’t go beyond that bare listing, which is typical of Anda’s smaller freshwater sites — the municipality has dozens of informally named cave pools and springs that never made it into a formal tourism write-up. The municipal tourism office or a local habal-habal driver is the best way to confirm which specific pool this entry refers to before making a special trip.

Anda’s interior sits on porous karst limestone, the same geology that produced the more than 20 named cave pools — Cabagnow, Combento, and Kaligoon among them — documented elsewhere in the municipality’s tourism inventory. Groundwater moving through that limestone surfaces wherever the terrain opens a gap, which is why springs and pools of this kind turn up across the peninsula in numbers well beyond what any single inventory captures. Before piped water reached the outer barangays, springs like this one were a household’s main water source rather than a tourist stop, and in some parts of Anda that practical use hasn’t fully disappeared.

Anda itself was set up as a separate municipality in 1850, during the Spanish civil reorganization of Bohol, and its distance from Tagbilaran — still the farthest of the province’s coastal towns reachable by land — kept development slow and left places like this pool undocumented rather than developed. Fishing remains the backbone of the household economy in the barangays away from the beach strip, and a spring like this one, wherever it turns out to sit, would most plausibly serve a farming or fishing community rather than a resort.

Location

Municipality of Anda, Bohol. Anda is approximately 120 km from Tagbilaran City at the eastern tip of Bohol’s southern peninsula.

The inventory doesn’t record a barangay, coordinates, or even whether this is a natural pool, a spring-fed pool, or a built swimming facility. Ask locally once in Anda — residents and drivers generally know the area’s smaller pools even when they’re not signposted.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, take a bus or van toward Anda via Jagna (approximately 3–3.5 hours). Anda is the end point of the route. Local transport within Anda (habal-habal or tricycle) would then be used to reach the specific pool site — since its exact location isn’t documented, plan on asking around in the poblacion once you arrive.

Practical Info

• Municipality: Anda
• Tourism category: unclassified in BPTO source (no tourism_type or tourism_category assigned)
• Whether it’s a developed swimming area or an undeveloped pool, its depth and water source, any facilities, and any admission fee aren’t documented — confirm with the Anda Municipal Tourism Office or on-site before visiting.

What to Expect

Anda municipality’s other natural attractions — Anda Falls, Anda Lagoon, and its well-known cave pools — suggest this area has multiple freshwater features, and this “Pool” entry likely refers to a natural or spring-fed bathing spot in the same general zone. Go in without firm expectations of facilities or amenities, and treat it as a small local swimming spot rather than a developed attraction.