A.L.Ammen Co. (ALATCO), the first transportation industry in the country, started its business not with buses but with paddle boat steamer?
According to Fr. James O Brien, a Jesuit expert on Bicol, at the beginning of the century, A.L. Ammen Co. (ALATCO) got its start not with buses but with a paddle boat steamer operating from Lake Bato down the Bikol river picking up and dispensing cargo and passengers. So it may be said that up unitl 60 years ago, water transportation reigned supreme in Kabikolan.

The First Filipino Bishop is from Camarines Sur?
Jorge Barlin (1905)..Became the First Filipino Bishop. He was distinguished for his piety, humility, industry and brilliance of mind. How he handled a defecting priest named Fr. Ramirez of Lagonoy, Camarines Sur is unparalleled in Philippine Church History. Had Bishop Barlin not acted fast, the Aglipayan Church would havewon rights to all church property in the Philippines. In the fight between two Bikol leaders for the rights of each church, the Supreme Court decided in favor of Bishop Barlin..

Camarines Sur is home to the world's smallest commercial fish?
Lake Buhi , home of Mistichis Luzonensis , the world's smallest commercial fish, was 1996 awardee as the country's cleanest inland body of water.

Naga City was not the first choice to be the home of the Virgin of Pe afrancia?
Fray Miguel Robles de Cobarrubias, famed for bringing Ina to Naga City, vowed to construct a small chapel by the Pasig River in honor of the Virgin in gratitude for the many favors she has granted him. However, before he was ordained priesthood, Bishop Andres se Gonzales of Nueva Caceres (now Naga City) called him to do pastoral work in the Bicol Diocese. After he was ordained as a priest in this diocese, he amended his vow to build a chapel in the place of his assignment instead of Pasig River.

Primitive Bicolanos have a queer way of holding songfests?
In the pre-hispanic period, one interesting practice of the primitive inhabitants of the region was on-the spot compositions done especially during moonlight nights. In dugsungan or sorompongan, a musical contest, the chief who presided over the festivities would create a situation and the contestants in response would turn this into a song. The better singer would make a sad story sadder, a happy situation happier, a funny one even funnier and a dirty incident dirtier. Now that proves the musical ingenuity of the Bicolanos even before the Spaniards.

That Isabelinas were once called balaos and tabios?
Before the World War II, students of Colegio de Sta. Isabel, the oldest academic institution of the Bicol region were called balaos and sometimes, tabios, Such names presumably spread because of the color of the students uniform back then. The color of the paying students uniform was indigo blue with white linings, resembling the color of the fresh tabios, the smallest commercial fish in the town Buhi, while the non paying students (pamulas) uniform was similar to the color of balao.

That a Bicolano from Camaligan saved Mac Arthur?
Sgt. Domingo Adversario, a native of Camaligan in this province, was orderly to General Douglas Mac Arthur. While at Corregidor (where Mc Arthur and his family sought refuge), the area they were resting on was suddenly attacked by the Japanese forces. William Manchester, author of American Caesar, a biography of Gen mac Arthur writes, A direct hit exploded in to the cottage s bedroom, shattering the building. Another bomb, much closer to him (Mac Arthur), scattered shrapnel in every direction. The General ducked behind the hedge while his orderly Sgt. Domingo Adversario removed his own steel helmet placed it over Mac Arthur s head. A fragment from one stick of bombs dented the helmet; a steel splinter from another laid Adversario s hand open. As the Mitsubishis roared off, Jean (Mac Arthur s wife) arrived on the run, found herhusband dressing the orderly s hand with his handkerchief.