Welcome to Santa Rosa City! Make this Your City here in Laguna!
The City of Santa Rosa has, in the past decade, emerged as a rapidly developing industrial and urban center. It is the hub of commercial and industrial activities in the province of Laguna. It is host to 50 major multi-national and local manufacturing companies, including the largest Coca-Cola plant outside the United States. It has earned the appellation of “Little Detroit of the Philippines” for having the biggest concentration of car manufacturers and assemblers, including Ford, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, Star Motors, and Columbian Motors, in the country. It is also dubbed as the “Silicon Valley of the Philippines” because of the numerous electronics, and semiconductor companies in the city. Most recently is also named as the "ICT Hub of Laguna" for the BPOs and Call Centers locating here and also as "Center for Master Planned Residential and Business Development Projects" and the "Investment Capital of South Luzon".These companies provide local employment, generate export earnings, increase local revenues and serve as instruments for the transfer of technology, with linkages to its local economy. It is also home to the country’s only world-class theme park, the Enchanted Kingdom. These have established Santa Rosa as a bustling and a highly competitive LGU. This will be a very dynamic page which will be updated regularly. After going through its history...Santa Rosa City is definitely in its tipping point thus a lot more development will happen in a very short period of time compared to the previous decades. That will keep you and I busy! Are you ready? Let's go take a peek at the past.  HISTORY OF SANTA ROSA Date 1571 When Spanish Conquistador Juan de Salcedo, the grandson of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi, while exploring the Laguna Lake region, discovered the town of Biñan which was annexed as a barrio to Tabuco (now the town of Cabuyao) .1688 Biñan, together with Barrio Bukol(Santa Rosa, before separation from Biñan) separated from Cabuyao. After a series of renaming, separation of barrios to become independent towns, Barrio Bukol was politically emancipated as the municipality of Santa Rosa. The town was renamed after Saint Rosa of Lima, Peru. January 15, 1792 The municipality was founded. 1898 During the revolutionary period, the town was instrumental in the proclamation of Philippine independence from Spain when it signed the Act of Independence on June 12, 1898. Later on the town's local revolutionaries fought alongside the forces of Pio del Pilar during the Philippine-American War. February 5, 1945 The town was left abandoned by the Japanese soldiers when the local guerrilla resistance movement, with support from the American military contingent, entered the town proper, where skirmishes, torture, and deaths occurred. 1945 to1979 During the post-war era, until the 1970s, the townspeople were largely dependent on basic agriculture and family-owned enterprises for livelihood. The influence of industrialization slowly took shape in the1980s with the entry of local and foreign investors who were instrumental in the fast-pace economic and social transformation of the town and the province. 1987 Romeo Gonzalez took his oath and become the first mayor of Santa Rosa after winning the election. July 10,2004 Santa Rosa became a city by virtue of Republic Act No. 9264, which was ratified by the citizens. February 17, 2007 The biggest mall in the city, SM City Santa Rosa was opened. 2009 Mayor Arlene Arcillas is the incumbent mayor.Click on her name here and you will be directed to her website that details her program and plans for the city. The city is still into high gear. The future is still promising even with the Global Economic downturn encountered late 2008. The test of resiliency comes after the Typhoons Ondoy and Santi that hit Philippines including Santa Rosa during the last quarter of 2009.
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worst traffic!!!!!!! back and forth to balibago
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