Santa Maria, officially the Municipality of Santa Maria, is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 34,511 people. From Mabitac was a mountain path pointed northward leading to a village called Caboan. On this path near the village gateway gathers people and Chinese merchants selling and buying wares, livestock and other farm produce. Aetas sell their herbs, medicinal rootstocks, and wild honey. Women from Mabitac trade chickens with clay pots, pandan mats, and sabutan hats. It was a market place.