Bucas Grande

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Bucas Grande is an island in the east of the Philippines, which is part of the Philippine province of Surigao del Norte and is located in the Philippine Sea. The island has 20,304 inhabitants ( census May 1, 2010 ) living in 14 barangays. The entire island belongs to the administrative territory of the commune Socorro.

The area of ​​Bucas Grande is 124.45 km ². The kidney-shaped island is hilly with small slopes and consists mostly of limestones, basalts in the center and from young alluvial soils along the coasts with sandy beaches and mangrove forests. Inland, a rain forest and in the northern part of the island dwarf forest grows. It is one of the smaller island archipelago of the Siargao Islands, located off the northern coast of the main island of Mindanao. For this archipelago includes the islands of Siargao, Bucas Middle East Bucas, Hinatuan, La Janosa, Anahawan and Dako.

The island is part of the large nature reserve Siargao Islands Protected Landscape and Seascape ( SIPLAS ) and has a rich flora and fauna. For single Dragonflies ( Odonata ) 2011 24 species were recorded in the year. Bucas Grande is in particular known by the Sohoton Bay, in which seven smaller islands and numerous cave systems are located. In the interior of the island is the Jellyfish Lake, the Philippine version of the well-known Ongeim'l Tketau on Palau. In it you will find as well as to Palau a non-toxic type of jellyfish.

The temperature remains the whole year round at about 30 degrees; December to February is the rainy season. The inhabitants speak Cebuano, Tagalog and English and are predominantly Catholic. Bucas Grande is accessible via the ferry connections to the larger island of Siargao.