A long time ago on east Java there were two strong animals, Sura and Baya. Sura was a shark and Baya was a crocodile. Actually they were friend, but when they were hungry, they were very greedy and did not want to share their food. They fought for it and never stop.

One day Sura and Baya were looking some food, but they did not want to share and they fought again. After several hours Sura and Baya had plan to stop their fought, Sura live and look for food in sea, and Baya live and look for food on land. But one day, Sura went to the land and look for food in the river. Baya was angry when he knew that Sura was broke the promise. Than Sura and Baya fought again and finally Sura was gave up and he went back to the sea.

People than always talked about the fought between Sura and Baya. They named the place of the fought as Surabaya, it’s from Sura the shark and Baya the crocodile. People also put their fought as the symbol as Surabaya city.