Red Tierra De Agaton Nature Park (Pulang Yuta)

Overview

Red Tierra De Agaton Nature Park, locally known as Pulang Yuta (“red earth” in Cebuano), is a natural landscape attraction in Barangay Sohoton, Calape, Bohol. It is classified by the BPTO under Nature / Unique Natural Landscape. The name refers to the distinctive red-coloured soil characteristic of the site — a geological feature that sets it apart from the surrounding terrain.

The park’s area size, the specific geological origin of the red earth, whether it has developed trails or managed access, the current managing authority, and the significance of the “Agaton” name (whether it refers to a person, place, or family) are not documented in available sources — confirm details locally before visiting.

This site’s current accessibility could not be independently verified beyond a single 2020 local blog account describing it as a newly discovered attraction. Confirm it is still open to visitors before making a special trip, ideally by checking with the Calape municipal or barangay tourism office.

Red soil of this kind generally forms where laterite — iron- and aluminium-rich clay produced by long weathering of the underlying limestone bedrock common across Bohol — has been exposed at the surface rather than buried under topsoil or vegetation. That is a plausible, general explanation for the coloring rather than a confirmed site-specific geological finding; no published survey of Sohoton’s soil composition was located for this profile.

Location

Barangay Sohoton, Calape, Bohol. Calape is a municipality on the northwestern coast of Bohol, near Tubigon. The Sohoton barangay is in the interior of the municipality.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, travel northwest toward Tubigon (approximately 40–50 km) and then to Calape. The specific route from Calape town centre to Barangay Sohoton, and whether public transport serves the barangay or habal-habal is required, are not confirmed — ask locally in Calape for current directions.

Practical Info

Entrance fee, operating hours, whether a guide is required, current trail condition, and contact details for the barangay or LGU tourism office are not published; confirm these locally before visiting.

What to Expect

A natural landscape site distinguished by red soil terrain — a feature unusual enough within Bohol to merit its own BPTO classification as a Unique Natural Landscape. The site is a relatively recent addition to Calape’s tourism offering: it was reported by local residents as a newly discovered attraction around 2020, promoted locally alongside the town’s St. Vincent Ferrer Church and the white-sand beach of Pangangan Island during Bohol’s pandemic-era push to surface new local destinations. Photography conditions, walking distance within the park, and specific viewpoints are not documented; check locally on arrival.

That 2020 timing is not incidental. With international arrivals halted and countryside tour operators losing their usual Chocolate Hills and Panglao-driven business, several Bohol municipalities spent the pandemic period cataloguing overlooked local features — a red-soil outcrop, a barangay waterfall, a viewpoint — that had previously gone unpromoted because established attractions carried enough traffic on their own. Pulang Yuta appears to be a small product of that same local-tourism-development moment: a site residents had long known about, given a name and a place in the municipal inventory once outside visitor numbers collapsed and domestic, drive-in tourism became the market worth chasing. Whether that early promotional push has since been followed up with actual path clearing, signage, or a managing body is exactly what current sources leave unanswered.

Notes

• “Pulang Yuta” translates to “red earth” in Cebuano
• Other Calape attractions include Binogawan Pottery, Cecee’s Organic Farm and Cacao Nursery, and ABN Takla and Crab Sight
• Gateway: Tubigon (northwestern Bohol), approximately 15–20 minutes from Calape

Enjoying The Great Life (2020 blog, local account of Pulang Yuta as a newly discovered Calape site), accessed 2026-07-17.