Swan Lake

Overview

Swan Lake is a freshwater lake in Barangay Liberty, Bien Unido, in the eastern section of Bohol province. It is listed in the provincial tourist-attraction inventory under the Nature / Lake and Pond category.

Verify specific site conditions, local guidelines, and safety rules with local guides or barangay officials before visiting.

Location

Barangay Liberty, Bien Unido municipality, eastern Bohol. Bien Unido is the gateway municipality for the islands and reefs of the Danajon Bank area in the Camotes Sea. The recorded coordinates place the site approximately 3.8 kilometres in a straight line from Bien Unido’s town proper (Poblacion). This straight-line figure is a calculation from the recorded coordinates and the Poblacion’s OpenStreetMap-geocoded location, not a measured or road-network distance; no independently published source was found that names or otherwise confirms a lake called “Swan Lake” at this location.

Getting There

The primary gateway to Bien Unido is Ubay, which is served by boats from Cebu and buses from Tagbilaran City. From Ubay, take a vehicle to Bien Unido town, then arrange local transport to Barangay Liberty. A direct road route also exists — Bien Unido municipality (poblacion) is documented at approximately 108 kilometres from Tagbilaran by road, roughly 2+ hours — which may avoid the Ubay leg entirely, though the exact road condition as far as Barangay Liberty specifically was not confirmed.

Detailed local routes and trail directions are best verified with local guides or municipal tourism offices on arrival.

Practical Info

Operating hours, entrance fees, and guide requirements are subject to local adjustments; check with the local LGU or tourism office on arrival.

What to Expect

Verify specific site conditions, local guidelines, and safety rules with local guides or barangay officials before visiting.

Notes

Bien Unido is most widely known for diving the Danajon Double Barrier Reef. Swan Lake is one of several inland natural features in the municipality. The name origin is not documented in available sources.

Verify specific site conditions, local guidelines, and safety rules with local guides or barangay officials before visiting.

A genuine search for “Swan Lake” plus Liberty/Bien Unido returned no independently verifiable results — only unrelated ballet-performance listings and a barangay statistics profile. The Bohol provincial tourism office’s own Bien Unido page has its “Top things to do” and gallery sections marked “To be updated,” with no attractions listed at all. Barangay Liberty’s general profile (population 1,059 as of the 2020 census, elevation approximately 7 metres above sea level) was found, but nothing specific to a lake named “Swan Lake.” The specific details for this entry remain unconfirmed.

Liberty, Bien Unido, Bohol Profile, PhilAtlas, accessed 2026-07-17. Bien Unido, Bohol Provincial Tourism Office, accessed 2026-07-17 (page confirms no attractions currently published for the municipality). Bien Unido, Bohol, Wikipedia, accessed 2026-07-17 (source for the Tagbilaran road distance).

2026-07-28 follow-up (fresh angles, not repeats of the 2026-07-17 search): Checked source types not tried in the first pass — Facebook page/group search, TripAdvisor site-restricted search, Google Maps/OpenStreetMap Nominatim reverse-geocoding of the recorded coordinates, an Overpass API query for named or unnamed water features within 1.5–3 km of the recorded coordinates, Cebuano/Filipino-language search terms (“lawis,” “danaw,” “lawa,” “pasyalan”), Wikidata’s entry for Barangay Liberty, the Provincial Government of Bohol’s own municipal profile page for Bien Unido, and tourism aggregator sites (trip.com, boholphilippines.com.ph). None returned any result naming, describing, or photographing a “Swan Lake” in Liberty, Bien Unido. The nearest OSM-mapped water polygon (way 1447061660, tagged natural=water/water=river, unnamed) is centred roughly 2.5 km from the recorded coordinates and is unrelated. Reverse-geocoding the recorded coordinates in Nominatim returns only a generic “Liberty” residential road, not a lake or POI. One useful side-finding: multiple sources agree Bohol’s only documented natural lake is Lake Danao/Lanao on Cabilao Island — if “Swan Lake” is a genuine natural lake it is undocumented anywhere outside the original provincial inventory entry that seeded this file; if it is instead a small pond, seasonal catchment, or a private/man-made feature, that would also explain the total absence of independent sources. Entry fee, facilities, swimming permission, nearest accommodation, lake size, water clarity, wildlife, surrounding landscape, and specific road/boat access to the lake itself remain genuinely unresolved after this round — these facts remain unconfirmed and require verification (a phone/in-person inquiry to the Bien Unido municipal tourism office or barangay office is likely the only way to resolve them).

Bien Unido Municipal Profile, Provincial Government of Bohol, accessed 2026-07-28 (lists river basins/watersheds for Bien Unido; no tourist attractions or lakes listed). Liberty, Bien Unido — Wikidata, Wikidata, accessed 2026-07-28 (barangay entry; no lake named). OpenStreetMap — Poblacion, Bien Unido, OpenStreetMap, accessed 2026-07-28 (source of the town-proper coordinates used for the straight-line distance calculation in the Location section). 10 Most Beautiful Lakes in the Philippines, Guide to the Philippines, accessed 2026-07-28 (states Bohol’s only documented natural lake is Lake Danao/Lanao on Cabilao Island).