Cauquenes Province

Cauquenes

Provincia de Cauquenes
Cauquenes Provincia de Cauquenes
Province of Chile
	Seal ; Cauquenes, in red, in the Maule Region Cauquenes Location in Chile
	Coordinates: 35°57′S 72°19′W / 35.950°S 72.317°W
Country	Chile
Region	Maule
Capital	Cauquenes
Comunas	Cauquenes, Chanco, Pelluhue
Government
• Type	Provincial
• Governor	Gerardo Villagra Morales
Area
• Total	3,027.2 km2 (1,168.8 sq mi)
Population (2002 Census)
• Total	57,088
• Density	19/km2 (49/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-4 (CLT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (CLST)
Website	Official website

Cauquenes Province (Spanish: Provincia de Cauquenes) is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule (VII). The provincial capital and largest city is Cauquenes.

Geography

The Cauquenes province has an area of 3,027.2 sq mi (7,840 km²), the smallest province in the Maule region.^[2] The provincial capital, Cauquenes, is about 370 km (230 mi) southwest of Santiago.

The province is bordered to the north by the Talca province, to the east by the Linares province, to the south by the Ñuble province (Bío Bío region) and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

Population

As of 2002^[update] (last national census), there were 57,088 people living in the province, giving it a population density of 18.9 inhabitants/km². The urban population was 38,660 persons (68% of the total).^[2]

The largest city of the province is Cauquenes, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 30,771.

Administration

As a province, Cauquenes is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 8 communes (comunas). The city of Cauquenes serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

Cauquenes province
Code	Comuna	Capital	Area^[2] (km²)	Population^[2] (2002)	Density
07201	1 Cauquenes	Cauquenes	2,126.3	41,217	19.4
07202	2 Chanco	Chanco	529.5	9,457	17.9
07203	3 Pelluhue	Pelluhue	371.4	6,414	17.3
Total of the Cauquenes province			3,027.2	57,088	18.9

Gallery

San Alfonso church, Cauquenes
Los Ruiles Nature Reserve
Mariscadero, Pelluhue

Related pages

Provinces of Chile

References

↑ "Autoridad". Gobernación - Provincia de Cauquenes (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 October 2016.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 "Región de Maule" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

Other websites

Territorial division of Chile (in Spanish)
Gobierno Regional del Maule Archived 2016-11-06 at the Wayback Machine Official website (in Spanish)
Province of Cauquenes website (in Spanish)

[Gobernador-1] "Autoridad". Gobernación - Provincia de Cauquenes (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 October 2016.

[ineDPA-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 "Región de Maule" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 June 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2016.

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