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Barili is a municipality in Cebu, Republic of the Philippines. It is a third class municipality, consisting of 42 barangays. It has an area of 11,715 hectares (45 square miles), and in the year 2000 it had a population of 57,497. Its main products are rice, corn, bananas, and coconuts.
The word Barili comes local grass called balili. The municipality was founded in 1632, though the parish of Barili had been established in 1614.
A cross was planted by Spaniards led by Captain Juan Juarado at thier arival at 1602, and still exists today.
Barili is located 61 km. southwest of Cebu City. It is bounded on the south by the municipality of Dumanjug; on the north by the municipality of Aloguinsa; on the east by the municipalities of Carcar and Sibonga; and on the west by the Taņon Strait
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