Guinsaugon Area

The Guinsaugon area is the reason many outsiders know St Bernard at all. The old village was buried in 2006, and the relocation area around New Guinsaugon is a sober reminder of how vulnerable this part of Leyte can be.

Visit with restraint. This is not a place for dramatic posing or disaster tourism; it is a community landscape where grief, relocation, and daily life sit side by side.

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A story
On 17 February 2006, a catastrophic landslide buried Barangay Guinsaugon after prolonged rain. More than a thousand people were killed, making it one of the Philippines' deadliest landslide disasters.