1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/San Pablo

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SAN PABLO, a town of the province of Laguna, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 91/2 m. S. of Laguna de Bay and about 35 m. S.S.E. of Manila. Pop. (1903) 22,612. It is an important road centre, and in the vicinity are five small mountain lakes. Coco-nut palms grow in great abundance in the town and vicinity, and copra is the principal product; hemp and, to a less degree, rice, are grown here. The language is Tagalog.