POPULATION (2000) : 57,497
POP. DENSITY : 439,58/sq.km
POP. GROWTH RATE : 2 3%
BIRTH RATE : 3.02%
LANGUAGE : CebuanoTagalog

ECONOMY

INCOME CLASS: 3rd Class
INCOME (2000) : Php31.378,515.24
EXPENDITURE (2000): Php: 226,383,342.33
MAJ. AGR. PROD. Corn. Coconut. Banana

INDUSTRIAL/COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES:
a.)Rice and Corn Mills
b.)cottage industries - Basket Making. Mat and hat Weaving, Furniture Making
c.) Poblacion and Mantalongon Public Marke

Google earth view of Barili, Unfortunately the whole town is under the clouds. Click to view fullscreen.

RELIGION
Roman Catholic : 85 %Others: 15%
A. Iglesia ni CristoB.
B. Bible Baptist
C:  Seventh Day Adventist Etc.

EMPLOYMENT
Labor force : 26,294 
Employment Rate :92%
Ave Family Income : Php 4.200.00
Ave Family Expenditure :: Php 4,00.00

Type of Public Transport Used in the locality:
Buses, jeepneys, Tricycle, Motorcycles, trisikad.
Port         Japitan fishermen's Wharf             

UTILITIES  

Power CEBECO I
Number of barangay served: 36
Number of house Connection: 4.526

Water
NAME OF WATER SYSTEM

1. Barili integrated Water System
2: Hunob Water
3: San Isidro Labrador
4: CANJAP Watt, Asso.
5: Luhod Water System
6:Pangpang Water Work System

Barili in the Past
There is no certainty as to the exact date or the founding of the town of Barili. The year 1632 was the time when the encomienda of Barili was conferred to a Manila resident Captain Juan Fernandez de Leon from dona Catalina Jimenez which means that the encomienda existed before 1632. To recall, the first encomienda which was the forerunner of political control in the "pueblos" or towns, were distributed in 1571. It is highly probable that it included Barili and that could have been the beginning of our town's documented history. However for purposes of approximating time. the year stands as the formal founding of the town. The founding of the parish is blunter: the year is 1614.
The early "pueblo" of Barili/Balili/Bareli/Barilis had existed at the banks of the present day Santa Ana River. As in the old Spanish landscape pattern. the parish church, convent, municipal hall, and market were diametrically contiguous structures.
The 170 to 19th centuries were a silent age and ones portrayal is as good as anybody else basing on the fossilized remains and artifacts that miraculously changed hands throughout the ages as in a house pole can suggest abundance of forest cover; bones of deers, wild pigs,monkeys: fanning implements, etc.
Manila port was opened to foreign trade in 1834 and the Cebu port in 1860. That was the axis for rapid socio-economic transformation. Business prospectors came to the town and became virtual political leaders as well. notably don Pedro Cui and don Mariano Panares. There was an intense cultivation of rice, sugar, tobacco in the early I SUOs and Barili became the largest pueblo in the contracosta (west coast) in terms of population presumably due to heightened awareness of the importance of having large family to fill up labor demands. In 1893,Barili became the sub-capital of the province of Cebu where important offices and officials such as the Court of First Instance, Register of Deeds, Piscal Promoter, Administrator or Provincial Treasurer, Interventor or Provincial Auditor and many high officials of the provincial government were present in the town.
Under the American regime at the turn of the century, education, democratic values, and public hygiene were given the utmost priority. School buildings were constructed in the town and a new breed of civic leaders emerged notably Hilarion Alquizola, Claro Causin. Ciriaco Paras, Domingo Alcoseba, Bartolome Panares, among others.
Resistance movement in Barili during the Japanese occupation was fanned on September 27, 1942, when Miguel Raffinan,Lt. Aguasin, Domingo Gutang led the movement. Those who were caught by the Kempetai (Japanese secret police) were killed, bayoneted usually at the Palalong cliffs. Japanese military occupation in Barili was led by Capt. Matsukawa who was later replaced by Capt. Sigemuto responsible for the massacre of Barilinians.
After the war, people experienced hardships. no food, moneys, nor work. Many emigrated to neighboring places notably to Mindanao where a number of Barilinians became prosperous in the land of Promise. From 1950 to the present, Barili's development is largely influenced by external stimulus as well as the patience and industry of the townspeople.