White Beaches

Overview

White Beaches covers the coastal stretch along the barangays of Catugasan, Lomanoy, and Bonkokan Ubos in Lila, on Bohol’s south coast roughly 25 km southeast of Tagbilaran City. The BPTO inventory classifies it as a recreational beach for sea bathing.

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

Location

Barangays Catugasan, Lomanoy, and Bonkokan Ubos, Lila, Bohol. The municipality of Lila faces Mindanao Sea on Bohol’s southern coast, between Jagna to the east and Dimiao to the west.

Getting There

From Tagbilaran City, take a bus or van heading southeast along the coastal highway toward Jagna — Lila is approximately 30 to 40 minutes by road. From Lila town proper, local habal-habal or tricycles can reach the coastal barangays. [TO ENRICH: confirm which barangay has the primary beach access and road condition]

Practical Info

• Beach type: white sand — [FACT NEEDED: confirm sand quality and beach length for the barangay stretch as a whole]
• Facilities: an independent beach-information database covering Nicanora Beach Resort, in Barangay Catugasan, reports no restrooms, no showers, no rental equipment, and no lifeguards on that stretch — consistent with a lightly developed shoreline rather than a facility-equipped beach. This describes the resort’s frontage specifically, not necessarily all three barangays.
• Admission: Bohol’s best white sand beaches are concentrated on Panglao Island (Alona, Dumaluan, Libaong, Doljo) and the town of Anda (Quinale Beach, White Beach). A social-media post cites an entrance fee of roughly PHP 80 at Nicanora’s Beach Resort in Catugasan specifically — an informal, unverified source, not a published rate card, and not necessarily representative of the barangays generally.
• Swimming conditions: the same independent beach database describes the Nicanora Beach Resort stretch as “not generally considered a good swimming beach,” better suited to walking and scenic viewing than swimming — again specific to that resort frontage rather than a confirmed description of all three barangays’ coastline. [FACT NEEDED: swimming conditions at Lomanoy and Bonkokan Ubos specifically.]

What to Expect

Catugasan barangay has at least two named beach establishments, Nicanora’s Beach Resort and Bitoon Resort, showing some resort development on that stretch even though the independent source describes the beach itself as short on standard tourist amenities. [TO ENRICH: whether Lomanoy and Bonkokan Ubos have their own named establishments or are undeveloped shoreline; whether the three barangay beaches are continuous or separate coves.]

Bohol’s south coast between Tagbilaran and Jagna sees far less tourist traffic than Panglao, which generally means quieter, less developed shoreline. A 2010s-era reader comment on a municipal profile page for Lila states the “pearly white sand” here is “no longer” what it once was and describes the marine ecosystem as degraded — an anecdotal, single-source claim rather than a confirmed current condition, flagged here because it bears directly on the “white beach” framing. [FACT NEEDED: an independent, current confirmation of beach/sand condition.]

Notes

• Lila is also the site of the Lila Catholic Church, a heritage church on the Trans-Bohol Highway
• [FACT NEEDED: whether the “White Beaches” designation refers to a formal facility or simply the natural shoreline of those barangays]
• Resorts confirmed operating in Barangay Catugasan: Nicanora’s Beach Resort and Bitoon Resort. No named establishments were found for Lomanoy or Bonkokan Ubos in a genuine search — [TO ENRICH: confirm whether any operate there].

Nicanora Beach Resort — Sandee (independent beach database), accessed 2026-07-17. Nicanora’s Beach Resort, Brgy. Catugasan, Lila, Bohol — entrance fee post (Facebook, unverified social-media source), accessed 2026-07-17. Lila — Bohol.ph municipal profile (reader comment on beach/ecosystem condition), accessed 2026-07-17.