Bohol (island)

Bohol
(from top: left to right) Chocolate Hills, Loboc River, Panglao Island, Alona Beach, and Bohol Provincial Capitol in Tagbilaran.
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Anthem: Awit sa Bohol (Bohol Hymn)
Location in the Philippines
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Coordinates: 9°50′N 124°10′E
Country	Philippines
Region	Central Visayas (Region VII)
Discovered by the Spanish	March 25, 1565
Founded	July 22, 1854
Government
• Governor	Erico Aristotle C. Aumentado
• Vice Governor	Dionisio Victor A. Balite
• Legislature	Bohol Provincial Board
Area
• Total	3,820.7 km2 (1,475.2 sq mi)
Highest elevation (Mount Matunog)	864 m (2,835 ft)
Population  (2015)
• Total	1,313,560
• Rank	20th out of 81
• Density	340/km2 (890/sq mi)
• Language	Cebuano Tagalog English Eskayan
Divisions
• Independent cities	0
• Component cities	1 Tagbilaran
• Municipalities	47 Alburquerque Alicia Anda Antequera Baclayon Balilihan Batuan Bien Unido Bilar Buenavista Calape Candijay Carmen Catigbian Clarin Corella Cortes Dagohoy Danao Dauis Dimiao Duero Garcia Hernandez Getafe Guindulman Inabanga Jagna Lila Loay Loboc Loon Mabini Maribojoc Panglao Pilar President Carlos P. Garcia Sagbayan San Isidro San Miguel Sevilla Sierra Bullones Sikatuna Talibon Trinidad Tubigon Ubay Valencia
• Districts	List Legislative districts of Bohol
Time zone	UTC+08:00 (PST)
Income class	class
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Bohol is the tenth-largest island of the Philippines and the main island of the Bohol province. It is part of the Region VII (Central Visayas) in the Visayas island group.

The Philippine Tarsier, one of the smallest primate in the world, is one endemic animal of southern Philippines, including the island of Bohol.

Geography

The island of Bohol has an oval shape and is surrounded by 73 smaller islands; the larger of these small islands are Panglao, in the southwest in front of the city of Tagbilaran, and Lapining, in the northeast.

The main island of Bohol has an area of 3,269 km² (1,262 sq mi) and a coastline of 261 km (162 mi). It lies southeast from Cebu Island across the Cebu Strait (sometimes called Bohol Strait) and southwest from Leyte, separated by the Camotes Sea and Canigao Channel. Bohol is also located north of Mindanao with the Bohol Sea or Mindanao Sea between them.

The terrain of Bohol is basically hilly and about half the island is covered in limestone. The interior is a large plateau.

In the centre of the island, mainly in the municipalities of Sagbayan, Batuan and Carmen, are the Chocolate Hills, over 1,270 hills cone-shaped hills over an area of 50 km² (19 sq mi).

The main mountain range of the island is Sierra Bullones that is along the south coast. It begins near Loboc, goes to the east and then to the northeast to end near Candijay. The highest point of this range and in the entire province is Mount Mayana (870 m or 2,854 ft).

Rivers

There are four main rivers that flow through Bohol:

• Loboc flows from the centre of the island to the southeastern coast.
• Inabanga, the largest river of the island, runs in the northwestern part of the province.
• Abatan flows in the southwest; and
• Ipil river flows in the north.

Climate

The climate of the island of Bohol is a warm tropical climate (Köppen climate classification Af); it is typically hot and wet throughout the year and rainfall is both heavy and frequent.

Gallery

• 
  Aerial view of Bohol's interior
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  Bohol Hills
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  River cruise on the Loboc River
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  Philippine Tarsier
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  Catholic Church in Corella, Bohol
• 
  Museum of Loboc

Related pages

• Central Visayas

Other websites

• Visayan Silent Gardens - Bohol Island Archived 2013-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Bountiful Bohol Archived 2013-07-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Bohol, Philippines - Tourism informations