DULAG, a municipality of Leyte Region 8 is a coastal town, 36 kms

south of Tacloban the premiere city of eastern Visayas. It is at present a

4th class municipality of 11 thousand of land area and a home for about
44 thousand Dulagnons. Known as liberation town it has survived and
risen from World War II and today it is striving forward in its effort
towards development1
The name Dulag may have been derived from a German word
“dulag” which refers to a place, a pivotal center for interrogation by
authorities2 this has probably been used to name the town which in the
past was the pivotal center for trade industry for the eastern part of
Leyte, where domestic and foreign vessels docked at its seaport bringing
in foreigners: Chinese, Turks, Greeks, Germans, to barter abaca, copra,
tobacco, rice, wine, and others. Large warehouses lined the costal
shores of Dulag among them: casa sontuwa, casa potiksi, Casa
Limpingco, Casa Ortiga, Casa Gotuangco, and Casa Florentino, which
promoted trade activities from Dagami, Tabontabon, Burauen, Lapaz,
Taragona now Mc Arthur, Julita, and Mayorga, where goods from these
places where shipped thru Dulag to foreigner shores3
Other ethnological version to explain the meaning of Dulag includes:
“dulaw” version (medical herb, turmiriya, kurkuma, longa) nag dudulag
version (Bones of wild animals scattered by hunters) “dalag version”
catfish (ictalutes, pongtatus) fishes that thrive along Candao river4