Natural world · Evidence-led place record

Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark

PH

Visitors to Balicasag Island, part of the Bohol Marine Triangle, can explore world-class snorkelling and diving spots, encountering its fringing reef and diverse marine life, including dolphins, whale sharks, and sea turtles.Hinagdanan Cave, located in Panglao Island, features an impressive pool of brackish water and striking stalactites and stalagmites formed through limestone deposition. The cave, once used as a wartime hideout, is now a popular site for tourism, research, and exploration.Disc

Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark in PH
Photo: Aurora Eugenia Carin Jacobsen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
CategoryUNESCO GLOBAL GEOPARK
LocationPH
DatasetUNESCO Global Geoparks
Listed/year2023
Oddness signal90/99
Data completeness95%
SignificanceGLOBAL GEOHERITAGE; 880,825 ha

The oddity, explained

Why is Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark unusual?

Bohol Island UNESCO Global Geopark appears here because the approved source classifies it as natural world. The source describes it as Visitors to Balicasag Island, part of the Bohol Marine Triangle, can explore world-class snorkelling and diving spots, encountering its fringing reef and diverse marine life, including dolphins, whale sharks, and sea turtles.Hinagdanan Cave, located in Panglao Island, features an impressive pool of brackish water and striking stalactites and stalagmites formed through limestone deposition. The cave, once used as a wartime hideout, is now a popular site for tourism, research, and exploration.Disc. Heritage Atlas treats that specific classification-and-description combination as the oddity; the score is a comparative discovery signal, not proof of mystery or the supernatural.

Evidence and further exploration

The coordinate, category and description remain tied to the cited source. Comparative oddness helps discovery; it does not add facts that the source does not provide.

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