Hinundayan

Hinundayan, officially the Municipality of Hinundayan (Kabalian: Lungsod san Hinundayan; ; ), is a municipality in the province of Southern Leyte, Philippines. According to the Hinundayan has a total land area of 6,108 hectares or 61.08 square kilometers, comprising 17 barangays. 2024 census, it has a population of 13,042 people.

==Etymology== During the 17th century, there were Spanish sailors who arrived in Sabang. At that time, the residents set up a resting place (handayanan) for their outrigger canoes. These handayanan were made up of bamboo posts with horizontal rails which were a meter high from the ground where the canoes and other sea crafts were laid after use. When the Spanish sailors asked the residents what was the name of the place, the residents who did not understand Spanish thought that they were asked of what they were doing, so they answered in their own dialect, "handayanan among gibuhat para sa among baruto." The Spaniards noted the first word "Handayanan" as the name of the place, so they refer the place as such, which later on distorted into "Hinundayan".