{"history":[],"article":{"id":"b2a392d0-dabd-4164-aa91-a4c77ae14a83","title":"Loon, Bohol","slug":"loon-bohol","content":":::summary\n**Image Seal:** New Logo for Municipality of Loon.png \n**Seal Size:** 100x80px \n**Pushpin Map:** Philippines \n**Pushpin Label Position:** left \n**Pushpin Map Caption:** Location within the \n**Subdivision Type:** [Country](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-sovereign-states) \n**Subdivision Name:** [Philippines](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippines) \n**Subdivision Type 1:** [Region](https://bliptext.com/articles/regions-of-the-philippines) \n**Subdivision Type 2:** [Province](https://bliptext.com/articles/provinces-of-the-philippines) \n**Subdivision Type 3:** [District](https://bliptext.com/articles/house-of-representatives-of-the-philippines) \n**Established Title:** [Founded](https://bliptext.com/articles/date-of-establishment) \n**Established Date:** June 22, 1753 \n**Parts Type:** [Barangays](https://bliptext.com/articles/barangay) \n**Parts Style:** para \n**P 1:** (see [Barangays](https://bliptext.com/articles/)) \n**Leader Title:** [Mayor](https://bliptext.com/articles/mayor) \n**Leader Name:** Elvi Peter L. Relampagos \n**Leader Title 1:** [Vice Mayor](https://bliptext.com/articles/vice-mayor) \n**Leader Name 1:** Lloyd Peter M. Lopez \n**Leader Title 2:** [Representative](https://bliptext.com/articles/house-of-representatives-of-the-philippines) \n**Leader Name 2:** Edgardo M. Chatto \n**Leader Title 3:** [Municipal Council](https://bliptext.com/articles/sangguniang-bayan) \n**Leader Title 4:** [Electorate](https://bliptext.com/articles/elections-in-the-philippines) \n**Leader Name 4:** voters ([Philippine general election, ](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippine-general-election)) \n**Elevation Max M:** 449 \n**Elevation Min M:** 0 \n**Population Density Km 2:** auto \n**Population Blank 1 Title:** [Households](https://bliptext.com/articles/household) \n**Timezone:** [PST](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippine-standard-time) \n**Utc Offset:** +8 \n**Postal Code Type:** [ZIP code](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-zip-codes-in-the-philippines) \n**Demographics Type 1:** [Economy](https://bliptext.com/articles/economy-of-the-philippines) \n**Demographics 1 Title 2:** [Poverty incidence](https://bliptext.com/articles/measuring-poverty) \n**Demographics 1 Info 2:** % \n**Demographics 1 Title 3:** [Revenue](https://bliptext.com/articles/revenue) \n**Demographics 1 Title 4:** Revenue rank \n**Demographics 1 Title 5:** [Assets](https://bliptext.com/articles/asset) \n**Demographics 1 Title 6:** Assets rank \n**Demographics 1 Title 7:** [IRA](https://bliptext.com/articles/internal-revenue-allotment) \n**Demographics 1 Title 8:** IRA rank \n**Demographics 1 Title 9:** [Expenditure](https://bliptext.com/articles/expenditure) \n**Demographics 1 Title 1 0:** [Liabilities](https://bliptext.com/articles/liability-financial-accounting) \n**Demographics Type 2:** Service provider \n**Demographics 2 Title 1:** Electricity \n**Demographics 2 Title 2:** Water \n**Demographics 2 Title 3:** Telecommunications \n**Demographics 2 Title 4:** Cable TV \n**Blank 1 Name Sec 1:** [Native languages](https://bliptext.com/articles/languages-of-the-philippines) \n**Blank 2 Name Sec 1:** [Crime index](https://bliptext.com/articles/crime-index) \n**Blank 1 Name Sec 2:** Major religions \n**Blank 2 Name Sec 2:** Feast date \n**Blank 3 Name Sec 2:** Catholic diocese \n**Blank 4 Name Sec 2:** Patron saint \n:::\n\n# \n**Loon**, officially the Municipality of **Loon**, is a 2nd class [municipality](https://bliptext.com/articles/municipality-of-the-philippines) in the [province](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippine-province) of [Bohol](https://bliptext.com/articles/bohol), [Philippines](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippines) which was established in 1753.\nAccording to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,224 people.\n\n# History\nLoon was among the hardest hit towns in the [2013 Bohol earthquake](https://bliptext.com/articles/2013-bohol-earthquake).\nAbout a third of all casualties occurred in this town, and its [church](https://bliptext.com/articles/loon-church), dating from the 1850s, completely razed to the ground.\n\n# Geography\n28 km north of Tagbilaran is the town proper of Loon, the westernmost municipality of the island province.\n[Cabilao](https://bliptext.com/articles/cabilao-island) and Sandingan islands are part of the municipality.\nLanao Lake on Cabilao island (also known as Cabilao Island Lake) is the only natural lake in Bohol.\nLoon lies halfway between Tagbilaran and [Tubigon](https://bliptext.com/articles/tubigon-bohol), Bohol's major ports of entry, each of which is only 40 minutes away by public utility buses, jeepneys and vans-for-hire that frequently ply the north–south route.\nLoon has one provincial secondary port and six fishing ports.\nThe secondary port is being converted into the Loon Bohol International Cruise Ship Port.\nCurrently it serves the Loon—[Argao](https://bliptext.com/articles/argao-cebu) ([Cebu](https://bliptext.com/articles/cebu)) route.\n# [Map of Loon showing barangays and islands | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Loon///bw-001.jpg]\n\n## Topography\nLoon is composed of land mass, coastlines and natural waters and has a relatively rolling topography consisting of moderate hills, rolling plains, sparse plateaus interspersed with valleys, and some ravines.\n\n## Climate\n\n## Barangays\nLoon is politically subdivded into 67 barangays.\nEach barangay consists of [puroks](https://bliptext.com/articles/purok) and some have [sitios](https://bliptext.com/articles/sitios).\n **soso** a freshwater shellfish species\n**badba-an** a local shrub or tree\n**bagakay** or bamboo abundant in the area\n **bahi** the hard portion of the trunk of a \"pugahan\" palm\n **basac** from the visayan word \"basa\", which means \"wet\" and many years passed by, turned into \"**basac**\"\n **ba'as** means sand\n **biasong**: a variety of orange grown near the Moalong River\n **trabongko**: a legendary shining ball that giant snakes amused at night\n **bugho** or hole, references to the ravines and gorges of the barangay\n after the plant **bakong**\n land purportedly belonging (Ca) to the first inhabitant named **Badug**\n **kabug** bats hanging from the branches of \"tipolo\" trees\n after the swaying coconut trees which looked like fighting (**galayug**)\n **ba's nga nag-ekis-ekis** or sand that crosses from one side to other depending on the waves.\n(A popular yet wrong tale means \"come back and kiss\".)\n **patud** a spring in a thick forest where hunters go\n legendary ever-burning stump of dead tree to kindle (**daig**) lamps\n **kanhangdon** root word is \"hangad\" or to look up from the Moalong River\n **nigaran** a legendary place where big niga trees grew\n **mamag** or tarsier, which were plentiful\n **manok** where wild chickens abound\n after a spring of the same name\n **subayon** the act of walking the banks of creeks\n **tam-is** means sweet\n **taongon** tree was abundant\n **sondo** a creek where one needs to take a leap (**tukad**)\n **tagbak** means to barter or exchange goods\n **kogon** grass\n **\"Kawasi!\"**, an order to disembark or jump overboard (to save the cargo)\n the legend says an ill farmer called out because his carabao was **hinomolan** (wallowing in the river)\n **tuwang-tuwang**, the changing movement of sand blown by south and north winds\n the curved shape of its coastline **na lo-ok**\n **pok-pok**, the warning drum hung from a mangrove tree (pagatpat) when [Moros pirate](https://bliptext.com/articles/moros-pirate) [kumpits](https://bliptext.com/articles/kumpit) were coming\n **moto** or hill, located above the original settlement, the coastal barangay of Napo\n **nagatuwang** whereby flow of water from a spring is absorbed higher\n **napolo** or **napo'o** means place formed from sand\n Spanish for 'new life'; the new settlement built when Catagbacan became too big\n **panankilon**, a medicinal herb\n from **tulod-tulod** the thrusting action of the waves shifting sand by the wind blow\n **pi-ot** the narrow stretch of road which widened by blasting, resulting in the fleeing of the monkeys from their habitat\n **pundo-pundo** or **pondol** juts into the sea or pools of water\n **kinubkoban** holes dug looking for sources of water.\n **sondol** or **donsol**, a sea slug species abundant in its seashore\n **so-ongon**, an arch-like rock formation along the shoreline; where one has to stoop (so-ong) to pass\n **talisay** trees which growing on cliffs over the shoreline\n **tan-awan** means a place where one gets a good view of the villages below it\n **tangnan** is cave that contains fresh water\n **taytay** a bridge, narrow hilltop-located pathway that leads to the center of the village\n **tikog** plant whose leaf strips can be woven into mats\n **tiwi** the trees that once grew on the eastern part\n **tontonan** means to use a rope (tonton) to scale a high mountain\n **tubod** means spring\n **tuburan** is a spring\n **nag-ubay sa baybayon** means straddling the shoreline\n **ulbohan** a well where water gushed in spurts (ga ulbo-ulbo)\n\n# Demographics\n# [Municipal Building | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Loon///Bohol///3.jpg]\n\n# Economy\nGross Annual Income (2014): ₱63.2 million\nMajor industries: agriculture, fishery, cottage (ready-to-wear clothes, mats, baskets), transportation, trading, tourism\nLoon's public markets include two main public markets and five barangay/feeder markets.\nThere are more than 800 business establishments and entrepreneurs in Loon.\n\n# Indigenous culture and crafts\n\n# Tourism\n\n## Heritage and historical sites\n**‡** Totally destroyed by the 15 October 2013 earthquake.\n# [Loon Public Plaza | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Loon///Plaza.png]\n\n## Natural attractions\n\n# Infrastructure\n\n## Transportation\nRoad network:\n\n## Health and safety\n\n## Utilities\nWater is made available to more than 42 barangays principally by the Loon Waterworks System, which has about 3,000 active individual water service connections reaching the northernmost barangay of Pondol, the southernmost barangay of Song-on, all barangays on Sandingan Island, and many hinterland barangays.\nThe rest of the upland barangays are served by Level II communal water systems.\nThe abundance of water in Loon has also encouraged investors to establish water-refilling stations in the town.\n\n# Education\n\n# Notable personalities","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-25T21:42:27.159Z","updated_at":"2025-01-25T21:42:27.159Z","search_vector":"'bohol':2 'loon':1","search_content":" \n**Image Seal:** New Logo for Municipality of Loon.png \n**Seal Size:** 100x80px \n**Pushpin Map:** Philippines \n**Pushpin Label Position:** left \n**Pushpin Map Caption:** Location within the \n**Subdivision Type:** [Country](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-sovereign-states) \n**Subdivision Name:** [Philippines](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippines) \n**Subdivision Type 1:** [Region](https://bliptext.com/articles/regions-of-the-philippines) \n**Subdivision Type 2:** [Province](https://bliptext.com/articles/provinces-of-the-philippines) \n**Subdivision Type 3:** [District](https://bliptext.com/articles/house-of-representatives-of-the-philippines) \n**Established Title:** [Founded](https://bliptext.com/articles/date-of-establishment) \n**Established Date:** June 22, 1753 \n**Parts Type:** [Barangays](https://bliptext.com/articles/barangay) \n**Parts Style:** para \n**P 1:** (see [Barangays](https://bliptext.com/articles/)) \n**Leader Title:** [Mayor](https://bliptext.com/articles/mayor) \n**Leader Name:** Elvi Peter L. Relampagos \n**Leader Title 1:** [Vice Mayor](https://bliptext.com/articles/vice-mayor) \n**Leader Name 1:** Lloyd Peter M. Lopez \n**Leader Title 2:** [Representative](https://bliptext.com/articles/house-of-representatives-of-the-philippines) \n**Leader Name 2:** Edgardo M. Chatto \n**Leader Title 3:** [Municipal Council](https://bliptext.com/articles/sangguniang-bayan) \n**Leader Title 4:** [Electorate](https://bliptext.com/articles/elections-in-the-philippines) \n**Leader Name 4:** voters ([Philippine general election, ](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippine-general-election)) \n**Elevation Max M:** 449 \n**Elevation Min M:** 0 \n**Population Density Km 2:** auto \n**Population Blank 1 Title:** [Households](https://bliptext.com/articles/household) \n**Timezone:** [PST](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippine-standard-time) \n**Utc Offset:** +8 \n**Postal Code Type:** [ZIP code](https://bliptext.com/articles/list-of-zip-codes-in-the-philippines) \n**Demographics Type 1:** [Economy](https://bliptext.com/articles/economy-of-the-philippines) \n**Demographics 1 Title 2:** [Poverty incidence](https://bliptext.com/articles/measuring-poverty) \n**Demographics 1 Info 2:** % \n**Demographics 1 Title 3:** [Revenue](https://bliptext.com/articles/revenue) \n**Demographics 1 Title 4:** Revenue rank \n**Demographics 1 Title 5:** [Assets](https://bliptext.com/articles/asset) \n**Demographics 1 Title 6:** Assets rank \n**Demographics 1 Title 7:** [IRA](https://bliptext.com/articles/internal-revenue-allotment) \n**Demographics 1 Title 8:** IRA rank \n**Demographics 1 Title 9:** [Expenditure](https://bliptext.com/articles/expenditure) \n**Demographics 1 Title 1 0:** [Liabilities](https://bliptext.com/articles/liability-financial-accounting) \n**Demographics Type 2:** Service provider \n**Demographics 2 Title 1:** Electricity \n**Demographics 2 Title 2:** Water \n**Demographics 2 Title 3:** Telecommunications \n**Demographics 2 Title 4:** Cable TV \n**Blank 1 Name Sec 1:** [Native languages](https://bliptext.com/articles/languages-of-the-philippines) \n**Blank 2 Name Sec 1:** [Crime index](https://bliptext.com/articles/crime-index) \n**Blank 1 Name Sec 2:** Major religions \n**Blank 2 Name Sec 2:** Feast date \n**Blank 3 Name Sec 2:** Catholic diocese \n**Blank 4 Name Sec 2:** Patron saint \n \n\n# \n**Loon**, officially the Municipality of **Loon**, is a 2nd class [municipality](https://bliptext.com/articles/municipality-of-the-philippines) in the [province](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippine-province) of [Bohol](https://bliptext.com/articles/bohol), [Philippines](https://bliptext.com/articles/philippines) which was established in 1753.\nAccording to the 2020 census, it has a population of 44,224 people.\n\n# History\nLoon was among the hardest hit towns in the [2013 Bohol earthquake](https://bliptext.com/articles/2013-bohol-earthquake).\nAbout a third of all casualties occurred in this town, and its [church](https://bliptext.com/articles/loon-church), dating from the 1850s, completely razed to the ground.\n\n# Geography\n28 km north of Tagbilaran is the town proper of Loon, the westernmost municipality of the island province.\n[Cabilao](https://bliptext.com/articles/cabilao-island) and Sandingan islands are part of the municipality.\nLanao Lake on Cabilao island (also known as Cabilao Island Lake) is the only natural lake in Bohol.\nLoon lies halfway between Tagbilaran and [Tubigon](https://bliptext.com/articles/tubigon-bohol), Bohol's major ports of entry, each of which is only 40 minutes away by public utility buses, jeepneys and vans-for-hire that frequently ply the north–south route.\nLoon has one provincial secondary port and six fishing ports.\nThe secondary port is being converted into the Loon Bohol International Cruise Ship Port.\nCurrently it serves the Loon—[Argao](https://bliptext.com/articles/argao-cebu) ([Cebu](https://bliptext.com/articles/cebu)) route.\n# [Map of Loon showing barangays and islands | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2a/Loon///bw-001.jpg]\n\n## Topography\nLoon is composed of land mass, coastlines and natural waters and has a relatively rolling topography consisting of moderate hills, rolling plains, sparse plateaus interspersed with valleys, and some ravines.\n\n## Climate\n\n## Barangays\nLoon is politically subdivded into 67 barangays.\nEach barangay consists of [puroks](https://bliptext.com/articles/purok) and some have [sitios](https://bliptext.com/articles/sitios).\n **soso** a freshwater shellfish species\n **badba-an** a local shrub or tree\n **bagakay** or bamboo abundant in the area\n **bahi** the hard portion of the trunk of a \"pugahan\" palm\n **basac** from the visayan word \"basa\", which means \"wet\" and many years passed by, turned into \"**basac**\"\n **ba'as** means sand\n **biasong**: a variety of orange grown near the Moalong River\n **trabongko**: a legendary shining ball that giant snakes amused at night\n **bugho** or hole, references to the ravines and gorges of the barangay\n after the plant **bakong**\n land purportedly belonging (Ca) to the first inhabitant named **Badug**\n **kabug** bats hanging from the branches of \"tipolo\" trees\n after the swaying coconut trees which looked like fighting (**galayug**)\n **ba's nga nag-ekis-ekis** or sand that crosses from one side to other depending on the waves.\n(A popular yet wrong tale means \"come back and kiss\".)\n **patud** a spring in a thick forest where hunters go\n legendary ever-burning stump of dead tree to kindle (**daig**) lamps\n **kanhangdon** root word is \"hangad\" or to look up from the Moalong River\n **nigaran** a legendary place where big niga trees grew\n **mamag** or tarsier, which were plentiful\n **manok** where wild chickens abound\n after a spring of the same name\n **subayon** the act of walking the banks of creeks\n **tam-is** means sweet\n **taongon** tree was abundant\n **sondo** a creek where one needs to take a leap (**tukad**)\n **tagbak** means to barter or exchange goods\n **kogon** grass\n **\"Kawasi!\"**, an order to disembark or jump overboard (to save the cargo)\n the legend says an ill farmer called out because his carabao was **hinomolan** (wallowing in the river)\n **tuwang-tuwang**, the changing movement of sand blown by south and north winds\n the curved shape of its coastline **na lo-ok**\n **pok-pok**, the warning drum hung from a mangrove tree (pagatpat) when [Moros pirate](https://bliptext.com/articles/moros-pirate) [kumpits](https://bliptext.com/articles/kumpit) were coming\n **moto** or hill, located above the original settlement, the coastal barangay of Napo\n **nagatuwang** whereby flow of water from a spring is absorbed higher\n **napolo** or **napo'o** means place formed from sand\n Spanish for 'new life'; the new settlement built when Catagbacan became too big\n **panankilon**, a medicinal herb\n from **tulod-tulod** the thrusting action of the waves shifting sand by the wind blow\n **pi-ot** the narrow stretch of road which widened by blasting, resulting in the fleeing of the monkeys from their habitat\n **pundo-pundo** or **pondol** juts into the sea or pools of water\n **kinubkoban** holes dug looking for sources of water.\n **sondol** or **donsol**, a sea slug species abundant in its seashore\n **so-ongon**, an arch-like rock formation along the shoreline; where one has to stoop (so-ong) to pass\n **talisay** trees which growing on cliffs over the shoreline\n **tan-awan** means a place where one gets a good view of the villages below it\n **tangnan** is cave that contains fresh water\n **taytay** a bridge, narrow hilltop-located pathway that leads to the center of the village\n **tikog** plant whose leaf strips can be woven into mats\n **tiwi** the trees that once grew on the eastern part\n **tontonan** means to use a rope (tonton) to scale a high mountain\n **tubod** means spring\n **tuburan** is a spring\n **nag-ubay sa baybayon** means straddling the shoreline\n **ulbohan** a well where water gushed in spurts (ga ulbo-ulbo)\n\n# Demographics\n# [Municipal Building | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/Loon///Bohol///3.jpg]\n\n# Economy\nGross Annual Income (2014): ₱63.2 million\nMajor industries: agriculture, fishery, cottage (ready-to-wear clothes, mats, baskets), transportation, trading, tourism\nLoon's public markets include two main public markets and five barangay/feeder markets.\nThere are more than 800 business establishments and entrepreneurs in Loon.\n\n# Indigenous culture and crafts\n\n# Tourism\n\n## Heritage and historical sites\n**‡** Totally destroyed by the 15 October 2013 earthquake.\n# [Loon Public Plaza | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Loon///Plaza.png]\n\n## Natural attractions\n\n# Infrastructure\n\n## Transportation\nRoad network:\n\n## Health and safety\n\n## Utilities\nWater is made available to more than 42 barangays principally by the Loon Waterworks System, which has about 3,000 active individual water service connections reaching the northernmost barangay of Pondol, the southernmost barangay of Song-on, all barangays on Sandingan Island, and many hinterland barangays.\nThe rest of the upland barangays are served by Level II communal water systems.\nThe abundance of water in Loon has also encouraged investors to establish water-refilling stations in the town.\n\n# Education\n\n# Notable personalities","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}