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Libmanan Caves National Park

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Area
  
19 ha

Established
  
February 6, 1934

Libmanan Caves National Park

Location
  
Camarines Sur, Philippines

Nearest city
  
Naga, Camarines Sur, Philippines

Governing body
  
Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Address
  
Libmanan, Camarines Sur, Philippines

Management
  
Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Similar
  
Cassamata Hill National, Northern Luzon Heroes H, Bicol Natural Park, Sacred Mountain National, Bulabog Putian National

Libmanan Caves National Park is a protected area of the Philippines located in Barangay Sigamot in the municipality of Libmanan, Camarines Sur in Bicol Region. It is centered on the massive 2,856 meter-long Colapnitan Cave, the tenth longest cave in the Philippines. The park itself covers a total area of 19.4 hectares across the hilly farmlands of Libmanan, known to host at least 18 more limestone caves of varying lengths, shapes and wonder. It was established in 1934 by virtue of Proclamation No. 654.

The park is famous as the habitat of thousand of bats whose guano has been gathered from the cave for decades. It is also home to swiftlets and some great long-armed spiders of the species Phrynus, known to be poisonous.

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Libmanan Caves National Park Wikipedia