CARIGARA, a municipality (with administration centre and 35 barrios or districts) of the province and island of Leyte, Philippine Islands, on Carigara bay, 22 m. W. of Tacloban, the provincial capital. Pop. (1918) 17,558, of whom 8,862 were males and none white. Carigara is open to coast trade, exports large quantities of abaci, raises much rice and corn and manu factures cotton and abaci. fabrics. It also has important fisheries and mineral springs exist in or near the municipality. In 1918 it had 18 manufacturing establishments, with an output valued at 28,726,700 pesos, and 317 household industry establishments, output, pesos. Of the f our schools, three were public. The language spoken is a dialect of Bisayan.