[4] President Carlos P. Garcia issued Executive Order (EO) No.

357 on October 5, 1965, declaring and considering the said political unit a municipality "beginning July 1, 1963".

[7] In March 1973, San Andres was close to the epicenter of a magnitude 7.4 earthquake.

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[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]