Diego de Oropesa, founded a “visita” for Morong on the present site of Bosoboso, south of Painaan with Apostol Santiago Mayor y Matamoros as its patron saint.

However, the town and church of Baras was burned by Chinese rebels in 1639, who were retreating from Manila to the Sierra Madre mountains.

In July 1895, the representatives of Katipunan came to inform the people of Morong, Tanay, Antipolo, Baras and Pililla about the cause of the secret society.

After the defeat of the Spaniards in Morong, the Aguinaldo Headquarters ordered the establishment of the municipal township.

942 was passed by the Philippine Commission in 1901, providing the establishment of the Province of Rizal to be comprised in part of towns from the former Distrito de Morong.

[5] During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese armed forces occupied and entered the municipal town of Baras in 1942.

The local guerrillas of the General Marking Unit sieged and invaded the town of Baras and attacked the Japanese from 1942 to 1945.

The guerrillas of the General Marking Units defeated the Japanese forces, and it ended World War II.

Then mayor, Mariano Golla, focused on the improvement of roads and the construction of a public dispensary.

[5] Under the succeeding administrations, improvements of road networks were implemented; seven liberty wells were constructed; the number of schoolhouses were increased; river controls in Barangay San Juan and San Jose were constructed; rehabilitation of the existing government building continued; and a reforestation program was launched.

This ancient martial art was popular among the farmers in the village of Bara even before the Spanish conquest of the Philippine archipelago in 1521.

Hari Osias Banaag, founder of the Global Sikaran Federation and diplomat for the traditional game, attended and was warmly received at the UNESCO Collective Consultation Meeting on the Preservation and the Promotion of Traditional Sports and Game (TSG).

Hari Osias Banaag is an appointed member of Ad hoc Advisory Committee Traditional Sports and Games, UNESCO(TSG).