Antofagasta Province
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Antofagasta Province
Provincia de Antofagasta | ||
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Capital Antofagasta | | |
Communes | List of 4: | |
Government | ||
Area code | 56 + 55 | |
Website | Government of Antofagasta |
Antofagasta Province (
History
Before 1866, this region was disputed and claimed by Chile and Bolivia. After the
Geography
The province spans an area of 67,813.5 km2 (26,183 sq mi)[2] in the Atacama Desert. It is the second largest province in the country, second only to Antártica Chilena Province (1,265,853.7 km2), which is not internationally recognized.
Its area is rich in saline and other mineral deposits with the important Caracoles silver mines about 90 miles (140 km) north-east of the Antofagasta. Like the other provinces of this region, Antofagasta produces for export copper, silver, silver ores, lead, nitrate of soda, borax and salt. Iron and manganese ores are also found here.[7]
Demography
According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute, the province had a 2012 population of 359,353, and a population density of 4.7/km2 (12/sq mi). Of this population, 313,244 (98.3%) lived in urban areas and 5,535 (1.7%) in rural areas. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 29.1% (71,779 persons).[2]
Besides Antofagasta, the principal towns are Taltal and Mejillones.
Administration
As a
Commune | Area (km2)[2] | 2002[2] Population |
Density (km2) |
Government website[8] |
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Taltal | 20,405.1 | 11,100 | 0.5 | link |
Sierra Gorda | 12,866.4 | 2,356 | 0.2 | link |
Mejillones | 3,803.9 | 8,418 | 2.2 | link |
Antofagasta (Capital) |
30,718.1 | 296,905 | 9.7 | link |
Province | 67,793.5 | 318,779 | 4.7 | link |
References
- ^ Government of Chile (in Spanish). Archived from the originalon 7 July 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Territorial division of Chile" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 16 February 2011.
- ^ "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 13 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
- ^ "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
- ^ "CAMARA DE SENADORES". Diario oficial de la República de Chile. Oficina de la Impr. nacional. 1888-08-04. pp. 1, 376. Retrieved 2022-03-02.
- ^ Bianchi Tupper, Alvaro (1888). "El Nuevo Mapa de Chile". Boletín de la Sociedad de Fomento Fabril. La Sociedad. p. 396.
- ^ a b public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Antofagasta". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 147–148. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "Asociacion Chilena de Municipalidades" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 19 April 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2011.
External links
- (in Spanish) Government of Antofagasta