26/11/2022
Bacacay Founded in 1649, the town of Bacacay, Albay, is located in the eastern slope of the famous Mount Mayon. It consists of a mainland and several islands with a vast body of sea water. BACACAY is derived from a specie of Bamboo Bagacay. The total land area is 11,220 hectares or 113.6 sq. km. Population is 56,445 and no. of Barangays is 56. The distance from Legaspi City is 21 kms. or 21 minutes car drive. The length of coastline is 143 kms. the longest shoreline in the province. Main products: marbles, pebbles, black and white decorative stones, caragumoy mats or banig, baskets, hats, copra, palay, abaca, fish and other seafoods.
BACACAY, is now the Tourism Center of Albay and the residents take pride in calling it "A PLACE OF ELEVEN HEAVENS" for it is providential that by coincidence or maybe by grand design of a powerful being it has 11 mysterious and bewitching caves, 11 white beaches, 11 islets, a lengthy golden brown shorelines, thousand of hectares of coral reefs, placid seas, a Sula Channel (canal) connecting Bacacay Bay and Albay Gulf. This town has a natural medicinal Sulphur Spring right in the heart of town (market site) and Ruins of an old church and belfry, Moro Watch and Signal Towers. Ancient Spanish Fort and abandoned centuries old sugar central plus the breath-taking view of Mt. Mayon in its most epic proportion from the sea.