LIBMANAN  , a

town of the province of Ambos Camarines, Luzon, Philippine Islands, on the Libmanan river, 11 m . N.W. of Nueva Caceres, the capital . Pop . (1903) 17,416 . It is about 44 M . N.R. of the Bay of San Miguel . Rice, coco-nuts, hemp, Indian corn, sugarcane, bejuco, erica nuts and camotes, are grown in the vicinity, and the manufactures include hemp goods, alcohol (from. coco-nut-palm sap), copra, and baskets, chairs, hammocks and hats of bejuco and bamboo . The Libmanan river, a tributary of the Bicol, into which it empties 2 . M. below the town: is famous for its. clear cold water and for its sulphur springs . The language is Bicol .