BARANGAY PROFILE
Municipality of Lemery
Barangay: AGPIPILI

Subject: NARRATIVE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Historical account cited that the name of brgy. Agpipili was delivered from the name of AGPI CATEQUISTA one of the early settler and PILI a tree that abounds the place that was once a virgin forest. The Barangay formally separated from her mother brgy. Almeñana formerly Tuguis prior to the detachment of the Municipality of Lemery from the Municipality of Sara in 1968.

The community is more an upland mountain than plain. Farmers and inhabitants derived most of their livelihood from planting upland crop and they goes down to the lowland for employment in farm labor or helping ones relative in their farm chores. Farmland are usually dependent upon rain but in some areas trickle of irrigation water that originates the spring supply the needed irrigation water of nearby paddies is located in the bank of Agpipili creek.

It is accessible by roads passing the Brgy. of Milan when one start from Poblacion. Because of its mountainous topography early harvest can expected in direct seeded upland farm came the harvest season.

The Brgy. is bounded by Brgy Sincua in the East, Brgy Yawyawan in the North, Brgy Milan in the West and Brgy Buenavista in the South. The first formal Brgy leader was Felicisimo Castor Sr. and the area can be best suited to upland crop utilization and tree farming.