Tolosa is the 5th municipality in Leyte that is located 24 kilometers south of Tacloban city that is composed of 15 barangays, has a variety of tourist destinations to choose from such as beautiful beaches to surf, Scuba dive, and enjoy the beautiful sunrise. Historical places also await you as there are trails of history that the world has yet to discover. After a long day of traveling, you can hop by at some of the restaurants to satisfy your hunger.
According to an urban legend, Tolosa was before ruled by three Datu’s (chieftains) the Datu of fishing, the Datu of hunting, and the Datu of harvest. These three Datus one day came into a huge battle but they were all too strong that they could not defeat each other, but an accident happened and they had strike themselves with their own swords spilling their blood everywhere after they died a great earthquake and tsunami came, and when that subsided three hills have risen, and the survivors of this battle commemorated this as the three datu’s that acts a contiguous wall to protect them from harm, that was when they called the place three (tolo) became one (usa).
Tolosa was once part of the nearby municipality of Tanauan. Magdaleno Vivero and Domingo Camacho petitioned the Spanish Government to grant Tolosa autonomy from Tanauan. The petition was approved in 1852, resulting in great jubilation among the new town’s inhabitants. The town’s residents, however, continued to call a nearby promontory Inapusong after the town’s old name. Spanish officials named the town in honor of Tolosa, a town in the Basque Country, Spain. The town was formally founded in 1861 and became a parish on February 12, 1863. Its first parish priest was Padre Geronimo Asenjo, a Spaniard. The first Filipino priest of the parish was Father Quintin Bautista. In 1910, a plan to abolish the municipality worried its inhabitants. Owing to the efforts of Captain Daniel Romualdez, grandfather of the late Speaker Daniel Z. Romualdez, the plan to return Tolosa to the care of Tanauan was averted.
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