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Originally Posted by AlexDelarge
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As for Pereira, i just remembered an Uruguayan(?) football player of Atletico de Madrid called Perea, so maybe that's the castillian equivalent, which was what i wanted to know...
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Nope,
Perea is a Basque surname in origin, although it could spread across Castille in Reconquista times.
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What would be interesting was knowing how these surnames came about. It is said that names like Fernandes/Fernandez are supposed to be like "son of", so these would be explainable. The english had profession names as surnames, like Smith, Butcher or Taylor, as well as the "son of" names.
But tree names? That is just strange 
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Not so strange, one explanation could be that the first man in taking the surname lived in a place with many of these trees, other lived near a bridge and so on.