BARUGO, a municipality (with administration centre and 15 barrios or districts) on the north coast of the province and island of Leyte, Philippine Islands, on Carigara bay. Pop. (1918) , 16,187 of whom 8,075 were males and one was white. It exports large quantities of aback and copra, and imports rice, petroleum and cotton goods. In 1918 it had three manufacturing establishments, with output valued at 21,80o pesos, besides 154 household in dustry establishments, with output valued at 51,00o pesos. Of the eight schools seven were public. The language is a dialect of Bisavan.