Bohol Provincial Flag and Seal

The Provincial Flag of Bohol

The Provincial Flag shall have the following design and symbolism:

Size and Dimension: It shall have the same size and dimension as the Philippine National Flag.

Colors: The provincial flag shall have three (3) colors, namely ; blue for nobility, white for purity, and red for courage. The path and/or strip of the blue and red runs in a perpendicular grain with the patch of white in-between.

Chocolate Hills: This famous tourist attraction symbolizes the abundance of natural beauty that the Creator has bestowed on Bohol. The supplementary background of green in the reproduction of the province's coat of arms is interpretative of Bohol as an agricultural province, most of its people depend on farming for their livelihood.

Bohol Provincial Symbols

Hero
The Provincial Hero is Francisco Sendrijas, also popularly known as Francisco Dagohoy or Dagohoy. He was known to have led the longest revolt in the Philippine history.

Dance
The Provincial Dance is the Kuratcha Boholana.

Plant
The Provincial Plant is the Ubi Kinampay, a rootcrop with white or light to dark purple meat. These rootcrops are very aromatic and is cooked as plainly boiled, mixed to other vegetables or dried and used as a flavoring for ice creams, candies, cakes and other goodies. The best kind of ubi is believed to be found only in Bohol. An Ubi Festival is celebrated every January in Bohol.

Awit sa Bohol (Bohol Hymn)

Visayan Version

Awit sa Bohol

Yuta kong minahal,
Hatag ni Bathala;
Sa adlaw’g gabi-i,
Taknang tanan
Dinasig sa kinaiyahan
Sa mga bayaning yutawhan
Imong kalinaw gi-ampingan
Lungsod sa bungtod nga matunhay
Ug matam-is nga kinampay

Puti ang kabaybayunan
Walog sa suba binisbisan
Bahandi sa dagat ug kapatagan
Gugma ang tuburan
Sa kagawasan sa tanan
Panalanginan ka
Ihalad ko lawas ug kalag
Sa mutya kong Bohol.


English Version

Bohol Hymn

This is the land I love,
The land God gave to me,
Caressed by the sun,
Bathed by the sea,
And kissed by the cool breeze
Night and day.
Here’s where the early heroes lived,
Here’s where they wrought peace
and here they bled,
Here rise the marvelous cone-shaped hills,
Here sweet kinampay grows.

Blessed with white sandy beaches,
Rivers that water valleys,
Seas teem with fishes and cows graze
on the plains,
In ev’ry home love reigns,
God keep my homeland always free,
Let her forever be,
I pledge my strength, my heart and soul,
To my dear home, Bohol.

Source: Bohol LGU website