2. About San Pedro City
Source:
https://cityofsanpedrolaguna.gov.ph/about/#:~:text=On%20January%2016%2C%201571%2C%20it,the%20helm%20of%20Gaspar%20Ramirez.
3. San Pedro, officially the City of San
Pedro (Tagalog: Lungsod ng San
Pedro), is a 3rd class component city
in the province of Laguna, Philippines.
According to the 2020 census, it has a
population of 326,001 people. It is
named after its patron saint, Peter the
Apostle.
4. San Pedro has been dubbed as “dormitory
town” of Metro Manila and migrants from
other provinces commuting everyday through
its highly efficient road and transport system.
Despite being one of the smallest political
units in the entire province, with a total land
area of only 24.05 km2, San Pedro is the 5th
most populous city (out of 6) after the cities
of Calamba, Santa Rosa, Biñan and
Cabuyao. The city also has the highest
population density in the province of
Laguna and in the whole Calabarzon region,
having 14,000 people/km2. As a first class
municipality, it became a component city of
Laguna by virtue of RA 10420 dated March
27, 2013.
5. San Pedro is located in Region IV-A or Calabarzon. San Pedro is the
boundary between Laguna and Metro Manila, so San Pedro is known as
“Laguna’s Gateway to Metro Manila”. San Pedro shares boundaries with
Metro Manila’s southernmost city, Muntinlupa (North) bounded with Tunasan
River, Biñan (South), Dasmariñas (West), Carmona and Gen. Mariano
Alvarez (Southwest) bound with San Isidro River. Its position makes San
Pedro a popular suburban residential community, where many residents
commute daily to Metro Manila for work.
6. BRIEF HISTORY
SAN PEDRO BECAME A TOWN ON
JANUARY 18, 1725, when the
Spanish King Charles II, decreed that
the town “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.
Laguna Copperplate
Inscription
Source: Treasures of San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines (Facebook Page)
7. 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.
Holy Cross of San
Pedro Tunasan
8. This struggle took almost 423 years of
unsuccessful resistance to Colegio De San Jose,
and in 1938, the government bought the home
sites of the San Pedro Tunasan Hacienda from the
Colegio for re-sale to its tenants. This event laid to
rest the tenant/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 beginning
to the Philippine Commonwealth forces against
the Japanese, 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.
President
Ramon Magsaysay
Source: Treasures of San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines (Facebook Page)
9. Barangays
San Pedro is politically
subdivided into 27
barangays. Barangay San
Antonio is the largest
barangay, which has a total
of 780 hectares, while
Barangay San Vicente is
the most populous with a
total population of 92,092.
12. Sto. Sepulchro Church
The original barrio chapel made of bamboo
and nipa, housing the miraculous image of
Jesus lying in the tomb, more fondly called
Lolo Uweng, eventually became a huge stone
church due to the increasing number of
pilgrims flocking to this church every Friday.
Eventually became a huge stone church due to
the increasing number of pilgrims flocking to
this church every Friday. On September 29,
1969, Bishop Pedro N. Bantigue erected this
parish under the patronage of St. Michael the
Archangel, but later became Sto. Sepulchro
due to the popularity of the image of Jesus in
the tomb.
Diocesan Shrine of Jesus
in the Holy Sepulchre
13. Lolo Uweng
It was in this visita where sometime in the 19th
century the icon of a dead Jesus was placed
and became the subject of popular veneration.
The image was eventually given the name
Emmanuel Salvador del Mundo which old
church workers said was inscribed in the icon’s
original wooden camarin. The image would
then be fondly called Lolo Uweng, derived from
Emmanuel.
As stories of miracles drew pilgrims, the visita
was reconstructed into a concrete church.It
later became a subparish of San Pedro Apostol
Parish located in the town proper before it was
enshrined on Dec. 1, 2006. The shrine
estimates at least 25,000 people coming to the
church every Friday as a weekly devotion. The
church and the yard teem with around 15,000
people to hear the Mass with 15 Masses held
on Fridays.
Lolo Uweng
14. Paskuhan
Paskuhan is one of the most
awaited events in San Pedro
City, Laguna. This event is
annually held in the center of
San Pedro, or most often called
"plaza". It starts at the beginning
of December and runs to the
end of the month.
Paskuhan sa Bayan
15. Hiyas ng San Pedro
The annual City Festival is celebrated on the 2nd
week of February. A week-long festival which
includes various activities ranging from cultural to
sports, trade fairs, amateur singing contests,
parades, historical exhibits, social & religious
gatherings, tribal dances, street dances, cheering &
sport exhibitions.
The highlight of the festival is the coronation night
of the "Hiyas ng San Pedro". The festival aims to
promote tourism in San Pedro and to revitalize
Sampaguita industry in the community. The
celebration was formerly known as “Manok ni San
Pedro Festival”, which started in 1999 and was
renamed to “Sampaguita Festival” in the year 2002.
The celebration kicked off with a grand parade. San
Pedro City holds the record of laying the longest
sampaguita (flower lei) line spanning 3.6 km (2 mi),
from Biñan City-San Pedro City boundary to San
Pedro City-Muntinlupa City boundary on the
National Highway, making them listed in the
Guinness World Records in 2009.
Sampaguita Festival
16. Cityhood
On March 27, 2013, President Benigno
Aquino signed the 64-page Republic Act
No. 10420 converting the municipality into
a new component city of the province of
Laguna. The cityhood of San Pedro was
ratified through a plebiscite scheduled by
the Commission on Elections
(COMELEC). The date for the ratification
is December 28, 2013 after the National
Barangay Elections. It became the sixth
city of Laguna after the cities of Biñan,
Cabuyao, Calamba, San Pablo and Santa
Rosa, and also the third to be a city in the
1st congressional district of Laguna -
making it the first city district in the
province.
San Pedro City Logo
18. Barangay Landayan is one of the 27 barangays in San Pedro City, Laguna.
Moreover, it is one of the barangays which border Laguna de Bay in San Pedro
City. Landayan covers a land area of 187 hectares, with a registered population
based on 2020 Census of 33,235. Due to its relatively large land area, the
barangay is divided into seven purok. Sources of livelihood among the people of
Landayan vary; from fishing, producing and selling sampaguita garlands and taho,
candle-making, pedicab driving, to office employment and working in numerous
factories in and around San Pedro and Santa Rosa. Majority of the residents,
however, claimed that much of their income came from fishing activities.
