Combento Cave Pool

Overview

Combento Cave Pool is a small cave in Barangay Virgen, Anda municipality, eastern Bohol, fed by crystal-clear, cool freshwater that forms a natural pool suitable for swimming. Rock formations are visible within the cave interior.

Like most freshwater cave pools on Bohol’s east coast, Combento draws from the island’s limestone-plateau aquifer — groundwater moving through porous rock and surfacing wherever the terrain opens a gap, which is why the water stays cool and clear regardless of surface weather. The cave sits just a 1-minute walk from the road, making it one of the most accessible of these surfacing points in the Anda area.

Combento is one small piece of a much larger picture: Anda’s interior holds more than 20 similar cave-pool formations, including the better-known Cabagnow and Kaligoon nearby, all fed by the same karst hydrology. Anda’s remoteness — established as a separate municipality in 1850 and still the farthest of Bohol’s coastal towns from Tagbilaran by road — meant these pools stayed local swimming spots for generations before outside visitors started seeking them out.

Location

Barangay Virgen, Anda municipality, eastern tip of Bohol island. Anda is Bohol’s easternmost municipality, approximately 115 km from Tagbilaran City.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, travel east toward Jagna, then continue along the coastal road to Anda. Total travel time by bus or van is approximately 2.5 to 3 hours. From the Anda town center, ask for the Combento Cave Pool in Barangay Virgen — it is a 1-minute walk from the road.

Gateway: Jagna port for visitors arriving by sea from Cebu.

Practical Info

• Category: Caves / Pools and Springs
• Municipality: Anda, Bohol
• Barangay: Virgen
• Access: 1-minute walk from the road
• Water: Crystal-clear freshwater pool; cool temperature

The pool is open daily from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM, charges an entrance fee of ₱20 per person (with motorcycle or car parking around ₱10), and is managed by local community caretakers rather than a municipal or corporate operator. Water depth reaches a maximum of about six feet depending on the coastal tide; no changing facilities are noted at the site. Source: Bohol’s Secret Spot: Why Combento Cave Pool is 2026’s Best Off-the-Beaten-Path Cooling Dip, Homes.ph, accessed 2026-08-03.

That caretaker-collected fee model is standard across Anda’s cave-pool cluster rather than specific to Combento — Cabagnow and Kaligoon operate the same way, each site run independently by whichever family or barangay group maintains it, with no central ticketing office pooling the income. For households in Barangay Virgen and the neighboring barangays, the modest daily take from admissions and parking supplements what fishing and small-scale farming otherwise bring in, in a municipality where the household economy still runs mostly on those two trades rather than tourism.

What to Expect

This is a quick dip, not a spelunking trip — most visitors are in and out within the hour, cooling off before or after other Anda stops. The rock formations give the interior some texture to look at between swims, but the water itself, not the cave structure, is the reason to detour here.

Combine with other Anda municipality attractions: Anda Lagoon, Anda Falls.

Notes

BPTO classifies this under “Caves/Pools and Springs” — the pool aspect is the functional draw, not spelunking.