1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Santa Barbara (Philippines)

SANTA BARBARA, a town of Iloilo province, island of Panay, Philippine Islands, on the S.E. coast, on the Ialaur river, a few miles N. of Iloilo, the capital of the province. Pop. (1903), after the annexation of Zárraga, Lucena, Pavía and Leganés, 37,621; subsequently Pavia (pop. in 1903, 5700) was annexed to Jaro. There are 87 barrios or villages in the town, only three of these had a population in 1903 exceeding 1000. The language is Visayan. The principal industries are the cultivation of sugar cane, Indian corn, rice, cacao, coco-nut palm and tobacco, and the raising of cattle.