Moalboal, Cebu
Moalboal is a town about 90 km from Cebu City on the west coast of the Philippine island of Cebu in the heart of the Visayas. Your neighboring municipalities are Alcantara in the north, in the south of Badian and Argao in the east. To the west it borders the Tanon Strait.
Moalboal is a tourist resort, accommodation and restaurants for tourists, however, are all located on Panagsama Beach, 3 km away. The sand of the beach was completely demolished a few years ago by a typhoon. What remained was a rocky beach, which enjoys great popularity with scuba divers due to the offshore reef Iceland Pescador Marine Park. Moalboal can be reached in about 2-3 hours from Cebu City by bus on relatively good roads. Featured trips can be taken with the rented motorcycle to the Kawasan waterfalls in a tropical setting and an orchid farm. Many German and Swiss operate small inns in Moalboal. Approx. 4 km away lies the White Beach.
History
List of mayors / presidents / captains
Climate
The climate in Moalboal is semi-arid, with 1-2 dry months. Normally, the humid season is during the months of September to December. A fluctuating, unpredictable season there is from January to March. April and May are the hottest months. A short rainy season from May to (mostly) in July. The average rainfall is 131 mm with an average temperature of 27 ° C.
Infrastructure
Most of the roads are paved. However, some secondary roads are still dirt roads. As a transport to use in Tricycles Moalboal ( sidecar to the motorcycle). In order not to be exposed to short distances the blazing sun, there is also a sidecar for bicycles, called Trisikads. To reach Moalboal or leave to use the local buses as Librando and Ceres, also multicabs and V -hires. Tourism focuses on Panagsama Beach, White Beach and Tongo.
Tourist attraction
Moalboal is primarily a place for divers and Schorchler. On weekends you can visit in Moalboal a " Cockfight " ( cockfight ), which is visited mainly by locals. In the so-called " Orchid Gallery" animals such as birds, monkeys, snakes and other animals can be observed. As a destination, the Kawasan waterfalls offer 20 km south of Moalboal.
Barangays
Moalboal is politically subdivided into 15 barangays.
- Agbalanga
- Bala
- Balabagon
- Basdiot
- Batadbatad
- Bugho
- Buguil
- Busay
- Lanao
- Poblacion East
- Poblacion West
- Saavedra
- Tomonoy
- Tuble
- Tunga