Barugo

Barugo is a of the Philippines in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.Residents of the town of Barugo are traditionally referred to as Barugonon but often incorrectly referred to as Barugueños.Barugo is a town in the northern coastal part of Leyte facing Carigara Bay, north-west of Tacloban City, whose history dates back to the early days of Spanish colonization. It remains an agricultural town producing rice, corn and copra. Residents of a few coastal barangays are engaged in small-scale fishing and aquaculture. Its cottage industries are the manufacture of tuba (coconut palm wine) and roscas (sweet pastries made of flour, sugar, eggs and shortening). Not unlike the rest of the country, its economy is partly driven by dollar remittances from overseas workers.BarangaysBarugo is politically subdivided into 37 barangays.HistoryEarly during the Spanish rule, the area was given the status of a pueblo when it was established as an "encomienda." An encomienda was a land estate awarded to deserving Spaniards for services rendered to the Spanish Crown. The grantee of an encomienda, known as encomiendero, was given the right to rule the encomienda in accordance with the Spanish laws and to extract tributes from the natives, part of which went to the Spanish Crown.