Question & AnswerQ&A (PROCLAMATION NO. 557)
Proclamation No. 557 declares a certain parcel of land of the public domain located at Barangay Binlod, Municipality of Argao, Province of Cebu, as an Eco-Tourism Site.
The President exercised the power vested by law, upon recommendation of the Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, to declare a parcel of public domain land for specific purposes such as eco-tourism.
It is located in Barangay Binlod (Sitio Candabong), Municipality of Argao, Province of Cebu, Island of Cebu.
The area covers fifty-three thousand eight hundred sixty-six (53,866) square meters, more or less.
The declaration is subject to private rights, if any there be, meaning existing private rights on the land are acknowledged.
The eco-tourism site will be under the administration of the Municipality of Argao, Province of Cebu.
The parcel is bounded on the southeast by Bohol Strait, southwest by Lot No. 5990 Argao, northwest by a National Road (20 meters wide), and northeast by Lot No. 4961 Argao.
The land was surveyed originally on June 3, 1974, and the survey was approved by the Office of the Bureau of Lands on May 5, 1975, marked by old PLS cylindrical concrete monuments.
It illustrates the exercise of executive power to declare land as public domain for specific uses (eco-tourism), the recognition of private rights even on public domain, and the coordination between national and local government units in land administration.