San Andres, Quezon

President Carlos P. Garcia issued Executive Order (EO) No. 353 on August 20, 1959, wherein six barrios of San Narciso were organized into the municipal district of San Andres.^[7] His successor, Diosdado Macapagal, issued EO No. 357 on October 5, 1965, declaring and considering the said political unit a municipality "beginning July 1, 1963".^[8]

In March 1973, San Andres was close to the epicenter of a magnitude 7.4 earthquake. The town suffered unknown fatalities and damage to almost 1,000 homes.

San Andres is 237 kilometres (147 mi) from Lucena and 367 kilometres (228 mi) from Manila. Administratively, the town of San Andres is subdivided into seven barangays. Poblacion forms the center, whereas the other six are in the outlying areas which are several kilometres away from the center of the municipality. The municipality also includes the island barangay of Alibijaban in Ragay Gulf.

A main language spoken in San Andres is Tagalog, which is spoken with a dialect that is spoken in Marinduque and eastern Oriental Mindoro. However, a significant minority spoke Cebuano, spoken in some remote areas of the municipality by ethnic Cebuano-speaking people from Masbate (in turn descended from settlers mainly from Cebu) who settled in San Andres several decades ago.

Poverty incidence of San Andres

Source: Philippine Statistics Authority^{[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]}

• San Andrés Apóstol Parish - Poblacion (est. 1965)

The San Andres Schools District Office governs all educational institutions within the municipality. It oversees the management and operations of all private and public, from primary to secondary schools.^[23]