Tigaon



Tigaon is a semi urban-rural municipality of 61,000 in the Partido region of Camarines Sur. It is a rural area, with a compact town, and is known for Mount Isarog. Tigaon's coast has a beach, which still has a few resorts

Understand
Tigaon is named after the Bikol word tigaw, a species of shrub whose leaves produced extracts that is used as poison to catch fish.

It started as a sitio of Sagñay in 1701, and had its own parish in 1794, when the St. Clare of Assisi Parish church was completed. Little is known when Tigaon became a municipality due to conflicting records.

The municipality is divided into 23 barangays, one being the town proper or poblacion. The town is small, and streets set on a rough grid. Most of the surrounding land are rice paddies. In general, Tigaon is fairly rural.

By bus


Bus stops are at Leelin corner Gomez, the bus terminal, and the municipal hall. The Leelin corner Gomez stop is generally used by buses headed for Tiwi, and the stop at the town hall by buses from Caramoan, Lagonoy and Goa. The stop around the bus terminal has an Angel's Burger shack at the waiting area, and is served by buses headed for Goa, Lagonoy, and Caramoan.

By car
Tigaon is along Route 610, which follows part of the Jose T. Fuentebella Highway from Pili to the town center, and Tigaon-Sagñay-Tiwi Road which heads to Albay.

The town is from Manila, and  from Naga.

Get around
The town itself is small, and easily walkable, but you can get around with a habal-habal or a padyak (cycle rickshaw or pedicab)

Mt. Isarog is reachable through barangay Hanawon in the nearby municipality of Ocampo. Habal-habal drivers are waiting around the bus and jeepney stop, though it's possible to take a tricycle as long you've negotiated the fare beforehand. It takes 20 minutes to reach the trailhead up to Mt. Isarog and the road is steep and winding. During the wet and typhoon season, it can get blocked by landslides.