San Pedro is a municipality of the province of Laguna in the Philippines and it is named after the Patron Saint, San Pedro Apostol. The town is Laguna's gateway to Metro Manila since it just lies on the southern border of the metropolis. This position has given San Pedro a suburb status ang many residents commute daily to Manila or Makati City to work.

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 King Philip, 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 was then, the picture of San Pedro; 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.

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

Municipality of San Pedro

Region: CALABARZON (Region IV-A)

Province: Laguna

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Congressional district: 1st district of Laguna

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External link

• "Municipality of San Pedro", Province of Laguna Website