Some fans have interpreted the town of San Pedro on the island of Ambergris Caye, Belize, as the San Pedro mentioned in the song. However, Madonna clarified to "Rolling Stone": "I don't know where San Pedro is. At that point, I wasn't a person who went on holidays to beautiful islands. I may have been on the way to the studio and seen an exit ramp for San Pedro." She described the song as her tribute to the "beauty and mystery of Latin American people".