Balobok Cave

The Balobok Cave or the Balobok Rock Shelter is a cave and archaeological site in Lakit-Lakit, Bongao, Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines.
The cave housed one of the oldest human settlements in Southeast Asia which dated 8,000 to 5,000 years ago. It served as a shelter of the Moro [National Liberation Front] in the 1970s.
It is recognized as an Important [Cultural Property (Philippines)|Important Cultural Property] in 2016. In 2022, a bill was filed in the Bangsamoro Parliament which proposed that the Bangsamoro regional government recognize the area as a heritage zone.