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.
San Pedro is a first class city in the province of Laguna, Philippines, officially City of San Pedro (Filipino: Lungsod ng San Pedro) and often referred to as San Pedro City is named after its patron saint, Peter the Apostle. According to the 2015 census, it has a population of 325,809 inhabitants..Despite being the third smallest in the entire province, with a total land surface area of only 24.05 km2, San Pedro is the fourth largest city in terms of population after the cities of Calamba, Biñan, and Santa Rosa. The city also has the highest population density in the province of Laguna and in the whole Calabarzon Region having 14,000 people/km2
San Pedro is located in Region 4A 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), Biñan (East), Dasmariñas (West), Carmona and Gen. Mariano Alvarez
(Southeast). Its position makes San Pedro a popular suburban
residential community, where many residents commute daily for work to
Metro Manila.San Pedro, Laguna - Sampaguita Festival