San Pedro Town
San Pedro street
Nickname(s): La Isla Bonita
San Pedro Town Map of Corozal metropolitan area
Coordinates: 17°55′17″N 87°57′40″W / 17.92139°N 87.96111°W / 17.92139; -87.96111
Country	Belize
District	Belize District
Government
• Mayor of San Pedro	Elsa Paz
Population (2009)
• Total	12,400
	estimated
Time zone	Central (UTC-6)

San Pedro is a town on the southern part of the island of Ambergris Caye in the Belize District of the nation of Belize, in Central America. According to 2005 mid-year estimates, the town has a population of about 12,400.^[1] It is the second largest city in the Belize District and largest city in the Belize Rural South constituency. San Pedro was granted the status of a town in 1848. Its inhabitants are known as San Pedranos. English is the main language spoken, however many people speak Spanish.

Panoramic view of San Pedro on Ambergris Caye

One of the primary industries in the town is tourism, most notably scuba diving. So many visitors are divers that there is even a hyperbaric decompression chamber on the island, despite its small population.

Population and Housing[link]

2010 Population and Housing Census has San Pedro town's total population as 11,510 residents,of this 5,947 are males and 5,563 are females. The total number of households is 3,774 and the average household size is 3.0.

References[link]

External links[link]

• AmbergrisCaye.com - San Pedro is the only town on Ambergris Caye. Travel tips, large photo galleries, very active message board
• San Pedro Sun newspaper site
• Map of San Pedro Town
• San Pedro Business Association - Working together to build a prosperous Ambergris Caye
• More about San Pedro - Belize tourist site

Coordinates: 17°55′17″N 87°57′40″W / 17.92139°N 87.96111°W / 17.92139; -87.96111

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San Pedro is the Spanish language form of Saint Peter. It can refer to:

Places[link]

Argentina:

• San Pedro, Buenos Aires Province
• San Pedro Partido
• San Pedro Department, Jujuy
• San Pedro Department, Misiones

Belize:

• San Pedro Town, a town on the island of Ambergris Caye

Chile:

• San Pedro de Atacama, a village in the Atacama desert of northern Chile
• San Pedro de la Paz
• San Pedro, Chile
• San Pedro River (Chile)
• San Pedro de Inacaliri River
• San Pedro (Chile volcano)

Colombia:

• San Pedro, Valle del Cauca, a town and municipality
• San Pedro de Cartago, a town and municipality in the Nariño Department
• San Pedro, Sucre

Costa Rica:

• San Pedro, Costa Rica, a city in the canton of Montes de Oca, in San José province
• San Pedro de Barva, a village and district in the canton of Barva in the province of Heredia
• San Pedro de Montes de Oca, a city and district in the province of San José
• San Pedro de Pérez Zeledón, a village and district in the canton of Pérez Zeledón in the province of San José
• San Pedro de Poás, a city and district in the canton of Poás in the province of Alajuela
• San Pedro de Santa Bárbara, a village and district in the canton of Santa Bárbara in the province of Heredia
• San Pedro de Turrubares, a village and district in the canton of Turrubares in the province of San José
• San Pedro de Valverde Vega, a village and district in the canton of Valverde Vega in the province of Alajuela

Côte d'Ivoire:

• San Pédro, Côte d'Ivoire, a coastal town

Dominican Republic

• San Pedro de Macorís Province
  • San Pedro de Macorís, capital of that province

Guatemala:

• San Pedro Carchá (Alta Verapaz)
• San Pedro Ayampuc (Guatemala dept.)
• San Pedro Sacatepéquez, Guatemala (Guatemala dept.)
• San Pedro Necta (Huehuetenango)
• San Pedro Pinula (Jalapa)
• San Pedro Jocopilas (Quiché)
• San Pedro La Laguna (Sololá)
• Volcán San Pedro

Honduras:

• San Pedro de Copán (Copán)
• San Pedro Sula (Cortés)
• San Pedro de Tutule (La Paz)
• San Pedro Zacapa (Santa Bárbara)

Mexico:

• San Pedro, Baja California Sur
• San Pedro, Coahuila, a municipality
• San Pedro Cholula, a municipality in the state of Puebla
• San Pedro Garza García
• San Pedro de la Cueva, in Sonora
• San Pedro Ocotlán, in Zacatecas
• Cerro de San Pedro, San Luis Potosí

Nicaragua:

• San Pedro de Lóvago

Paraguay:

• San Pedro Department, Paraguay
• San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú, the capital of that department
• San Pedro del Paraná

Peru:

• San Pedro de Lloc, city in Peru

Philippines:

• San Pedro, Laguna, a municipality in the Laguna province
• San Pedro, Bagabag, a barangay in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines
• San Pedro, San Pablo City, a barangay in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines
• San Pedro Cutud, a barangay in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines
• San Pedro Bay (Philippines), at the northwest end of Leyte Gulf

Spain:

• San Pedro de Alcántara
• Peñas de San Pedro, Albacete
• San Pedro, Albacete
• San Pedro, Viveiro, a parish of Viveiro, Lugo
• San Pedro De Zamudia, Zamora
• San Pedro del Pinatar, Spain, in Murcia

United States:

• San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, home to the Port of Los Angeles, located in San Pedro Bay
• San Pedro, New Mexico, a former village across the Rio Grande from San Antonio, New Mexico
• San Pedro Bay (California)
• San Pedro or Nacimiento Mountains, New Mexico
• San Pedro River (Arizona)
• San Pedro Valley (Arizona)

Other[link]

• San Pedro cactus (Echinopsis pachanoi), native to South America.
• San Pedro, the name of the American gunboat in The Sand Pebbles (film)
• The San Pedro, a ship that was intentionally sunk off of Honolulu, Hawaii by the Atlantis Submarine Company for an artificial reef; the wreck lies alongside the YO-257
• The San Pedro, a sailing ship that sunk in 1733 off the coast of Florida with circa $400 million worth of treasure on board. It was rediscovered in the 1960s.^[1]
• San Pedro, a song from Mogwai's 2011 album Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will

See also[link]

• San Pedro Island (disambiguation), the name of a various islands worldwide

References[link]

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