Albuera, officially the Municipality of Albuera (; ; ), is a First Class municipality in the province of Leyte, Philippines. According to the 2024 census, it has a population of 47,333 people.
The place got its name Albuera which means fresh water lake, named after a town in Galicia, Spain by a Spanish Priest.
In 1903, Albuera was consolidated into Ormoc.
This is the only town in the history of the Philippines that elected a self-confessed drug lord, Kerwin Espinosa as their mayor and his sister as the vice mayor in 2025 elections.
On November 4, 2016, 1st-term Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr., who was linked to illegal drugs through his son and alleged drug lord Rolan "Kerwin" Espinosa, was shot dead inside his prison cell at the Baybay City Sub Provincial Jail. Espinosa was replaced by his vice mayor Rosa Meneses while councilor Sixto dela Victoria filled in as vice mayor.
Albuera is politically subdivided into 16 barangays. Each barangay consists of puroks and some have sitios.
In the 2024 census, the population of Albuera was 47,333 people, with a density of .
Albuera has 5 secondary schools