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San Pedro is a 1st class urban municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. It is named after its patron saint, Saint Peter. San Pedro is Laguna's gateway to Metro Manila since it lies on the boundary with Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila's southernmost city. This position makes San Pedro a popular suburban residential community, where many residents commute daily for work in Metro Manila. According to the 2000 census, it has a population of 231,403 people in 48,341 households.
Aside from being a primarily suburban community, San Pedro also hosts a large number of factories. Among them include Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Alaska Milk Corporation and General Milling Corporation.
Barangays
San Pedro is politically subdivided into 20 barangays.
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History
San Pedro became a town on January 18, 1725, when the Spanish King, Charles II, decreed that the town, formerly known as "tabuko", be a separate town from "Kabullaw", now known as Cabuyao. By virtue of the last will of Philip V of Spain, Rodriguez de Figueroa or "Don Esteban", a group of Augustinian Fathers gained the ownership of the Tunasan Estate. Later on, San Pedro became an hacienda of Colegio de San Jose, a group of Jesuits friars who took over the property which now is known as "San Pedro Tunasan". "Tunasan" came from "Tunas" a medicinal plant, abundant on shoreline area. During that period, agriculture, fishing, duck raising, fruit trees, sampaguita were the main source of income of its residents. This period was highlighted by the growing tenant/landlord dispute. The tenants of Hacienda San Pedro Tunasan fought for their birthrights over their ancestral lands. This struggle took almost 423 years of unsuccessful resistance to Colegio de San Jose, and in 1938, the government bought the homesites of the San Pedro Tunasan Hacienda from the Colegio for re-sale to its tenants. This event laid to rest the tenants/landlord problem in the town.
From the Spanish time until after the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, the scenario did change a bit, when on August 30, 1945, President Ramon Magsaysay signed at the historic town plaza the Land Tenancy Act. By virtue of this law, farm lots of the hacienda were bought by the Philippine Government to be sold at cost to the tenants or occupants of the farm lots in Bayan-Bayanan under the Narra Settlement Project of the Magsaysay Administration.
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