BURAUEN, a municipality (with administration centre and 3o barrios or districts) of the province and island of Leyte, Philippine Islands, on the Dagitan river, 21m. S. by W. of Taclo ban, the provincial capital. Pop. (1918), 25,647, of whom 13,442 were males and 8 whites. The municipality is located in a rich abaca-growing region and abaca is its only important product. In 1918 it had nine manufacturing establishments with output valued at 72,40o pesos, besides 52 household industry establishments with output valued at 24,800 pesos; and 14 schools, of which 13 are public. The language is a dialect of Bisayan.