Ca Enero Cave

Overview

Ca-Enero Cave sits in Barangay Candabong, Anda, listed in the BPTO tourist-attraction inventory under Caves/Pools and Springs. Anda’s karst geology — a municipality built on limestone — is what produces its unusually dense concentration of caves and cave pools, and this is one of the catalogued sites.

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Location

Barangay Candabong, Anda, Bohol. Candabong is one of the barangays in the eastern portion of Anda municipality. Nearby cave sites in the same barangay area include Cateres Cave Pool and Sarah Cave.

Getting There

Anda is in southeastern Bohol, roughly 110 km from Tagbilaran City. Buses from Tagbilaran serve the Anda route via Jagna or Duero. From Anda town proper, local habal-habal or tricycle transport reaches Candabong barangay.

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Practical Info

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What to Expect

A limestone cave in one of Bohol’s most cave-dense municipalities, where karst terrain produces everything from dry passage caves to open-roofed cenote pools. The BPTO’s Caves/Pools and Springs classification suggests Ca-Enero includes a water feature, though this is unconfirmed.

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Notes

[FACT NEEDED: source profile lists this attraction by name and classification only — full description requires enrichment.]

A good-faith web search (name variants, “Candabong Anda Bohol caves,” and the official Bohol Island Geopark cave-pools listing) found no independent source describing “Ca-Enero Cave” specifically. Barangay Candabong is independently confirmed as home to a documented, separate attraction — the East Coast Cave Pool, inside East Coast White Sand Resort, entrance ~₱100 (free for resort guests) — but no source ties that site to the name “Ca-Enero,” so the two should not be assumed identical. Cave Pools of Anda — Bohol Island Geopark, accessed 2026-07-17.

2026-07-28 follow-up pass (fresh angle, per re-enrichment protocol): Repeated the search using different tooling and source types rather than re-running the prior query. Checked: (1) the official PPDO Bohol tourism/culture inventory PDF (Tourist Attractions — PPDO Bohol and Culture, Arts & Heritage PDF); (2) the Bohol provincial tourism site’s own geopark page (Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark — Cave Pools of Anda), which names Cabagnow, Combento, Kaligoon, East Coast, and Kalorenzo as “the famous cave pools” of Anda — no “Ca-Enero”; (3) the Anda Municipal Tourism Profile 2017 (scribd.com/document/347411613), which lists Anda’s caves by name (Three Maria’s, Lamanok, Santiago, Balwarte, Sarah, Sudlonon, Tanod) and cave-springs (Cateres Cave Spring in Candabong, Combento) — no “Ca-Enero”; (4) the karst-cave specialist database showcaves.com Bohol region page and its individual Anda entries (Cabagnow, Combento) — no “Ca-Enero”; (5) a general cave-pools/waterfalls list blog (thebackpackman.blogspot.com) naming Tigdao, Banilad, and Kalorenzo Spring/Cave in Anda alongside Cabagnow, Combento, Kaligoon, East Coast — no “Ca-Enero”; (6) a Lakwatsero Anda travel guide naming six Anda cave pools (Combento, Cateres, Kaligoon, Tiburako, East Coast, Cabagnow) — no “Ca-Enero”; and (7) a news search on Barangay Candabong (landslide/quarry coverage) confirming the barangay’s limestone-quarry geology but surfacing no cave named “Ca-Enero.” No Facebook, TripAdvisor, or Google Maps listing under this name was found either (direct Maps fetch returned no indexable result). The consistent absence of “Ca-Enero” across every enumerated list of Anda’s named caves and cave pools — several of which are exhaustive-style lists from official/specialist sources — suggests the name may be a transcription variant, a very minor/unlisted local site, or an error in the source inventory this entity was built from; it should not be merged with any of the confirmed nearby sites (East Coast, Cateres, Kalorenzo, etc.) without a source that explicitly equates them. All [TO ENRICH] tags remain unresolved pending a source that names this specific site.