Makarato

Makarato was an old settlement in the Laoang area of northern Samar, among islands and river mouths opening towards the Pacific. The island was known as Lawang, a name that later became Laoang. Jesuit missionaries reached this coast from their stations elsewhere on Samar in the early seventeenth century. Local tradition remembers settlers from Palapag establishing a community here in 1680, while the waterways continued to link the settlement with neighbouring islands and the mainland of Samar.