Binawangan

Binawangan lies on the coast of Lamon Bay in northern Bicol, where the peninsula of southeastern Luzon meets the Pacific. Its shore belongs to the country west of Paracale, an area long known for gold. Mining in the region predates Spanish rule, and a substantial deposit near Paracale drew renewed attention in the seventeenth century. The bay and the hills behind it form part of the varied landscape between the Tagalog lands and the Bicol peninsula.