The towering limestone island that looms across the bay from Coron town is not the town itself but a separate landmass — Coron Island — owned and managed by the indigenous Tagbanua people under a 1998 Ancestral Domain title. Almost everything famous in Coron's tourism brochures (Kayangan, Barracuda Lake, Twin Lagoon, the secret beaches) is here.
The Tagbanua impose strict rules. Visitors must hire a registered boatman from Coron town and pay a per-person environmental fee on landing. Six of the island's seven lakes are off-limits; sunscreen is banned in the open lakes; nobody is allowed to spend the night. Take this seriously — the system is what has kept the island's interior almost untouched while everywhere else in Palawan succumbed to development.