Ca Genaro Cave

Overview

Ca Genaro Cave, in Barangay Tanod, Anda, is a limestone cave defined by its stalactite and stalagmite development — mineral deposits built drip by drip over a timescale most visitors never think about. It also functions as habitat, housing a bat colony and scorpions. Listed in the BPTO tourist-attraction inventory under Caves.

Location

Barangay Tanod, Anda, Bohol. Anda municipality occupies a peninsula on the southeastern tip of Bohol, underlain extensively by limestone that accounts for the municipality’s dense cave network.

Getting There

Anda is approximately 110 km from Tagbilaran City, accessible by bus via Jagna or Duero. From Anda town proper, habal-habal or tricycle transport can reach barangay Tanod.

[TO ENRICH: road condition to cave entrance, habal-habal fare from Anda town]

Practical Info

• Live bat and scorpion populations inside
• Bring a torch or headlamp — cave lighting not mentioned in source

[TO ENRICH: entrance fee, guide requirement, cave length, difficulty of passage, opening hours]

What to Expect

A dry limestone cave with developed speleothem formations, stalactites hanging from the ceiling meeting stalagmites rising from the floor. A resident bat colony is evidence enough that the cave runs deep and dark enough for roosting. Scorpions share the space — watch hands and feet around rock surfaces and crevices.

[TO ENRICH: size and depth of chambers, whether formations are accessible without specialist equipment]

Notes

[TO ENRICH: local name origin (Ca Genaro suggests named after a person), community management, permit requirements]

Research attempt, 2026-07-28: No source under the exact name “Ca Genaro Cave” (or spelling variants “Ka Genaro,” “Kagenaro,” Cebuano “langub Genaro”) could be found on the open web, so none of the [TO ENRICH] tags above could be resolved this round. Searches tried: direct name searches (web + Exa) for “Ca Genaro Cave Anda Bohol,” “Genaro Cave Tanod Anda,” alternate spellings and Cebuano terms; general inventories of Anda’s caves (langyaw.com’s “cool cave pools of Anda,” bohol.ph/viabohol.com Anda articles, the scanned “Anda Municipal Tourism Profile 2017” on Scribd, tourism.bohol.gov.ph’s UNESCO Global Geopark page, a BIAD5 provincial eco-tourism PDP PDF); Google Maps search page; and lodging results for the unrelated “Casa Genaro” B&B in Tagbilaran (a false-lead near-match on the word “Genaro,” not the same place). The 2017 Anda tourism profile names caves in Anda generically as “Tanod Caves” (plural) alongside Three-Maria’s, Lamanok, Santiago, Balwarte, Sarah, and Sudlonon caves, and notes all Anda caves “must undergo strict assessment by the DENR before they are explored” — but it does not name a “Ca Genaro” specifically, so this can’t be cited as a direct source for this cave’s fee/guide/permit/name-origin facts. Anda’s well-documented cave pools (Cabagnow, Combento, Kaligoon, Kalorenzo, East Coast) are all distinct, differently-named attractions from Ca Genaro. Conclusion: Ca Genaro Cave appears to be a minor, hyper-local entry likely sourced only from an internal/offline BPTO inventory list, not from any indexed public source. A future pass should try: (a) contacting the Anda Municipal Tourism Office or Barangay Tanod directly by phone, (b) an in-person/local-fixer check of Facebook groups for Anda/Bohol travel, (c) BPTO or CENRO records that may not be web-indexed.