Daet

Daet is an old settlement in northern Bicol, close to the coast of Luzon and the gold-bearing country of Paracale. It existed before the arrival of the Spanish, who came to the region in search of gold. Juan de Salcedo's expedition reached Bicol in 1571, and Daet later became a mission town and a centre of the surrounding district. Its history belongs to a coastal region where river valleys and mineral-rich hills meet the sea.