Arauco, Chile

Arauco
Arauco
City and Commune
	Flag Coat of arms Location of the Arauco commune in Bío Bío Region UTC−3 (CLST)
Area code	56 + 41
Climate	Csb
Website	Official website (in Spanish)

Arauco is a

Mapudungun. The region was a Moluche aillarehue. The Spanish settlements founded here during the Conquest of Chile were destroyed on numerous occasions by the Mapuche during the Arauco War

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History

Old Arauco

In 1552

mother-in-law. It was raised again after the battle of Quiapo, by García Hurtado de Mendoza in 1559. Destroyed again in 1563 it was rebuilt again in 1566 by Rodrigo de Quiroga

and became a small town, that remained so without growing until being transferred to the current site of the city of Arauco.

Arauco

The population of old Araucan was moved in 1590 by Governor Don

1766 and during the war of Independence in the assault that they made on it on June 4, 1817, with their royalist allies. Population began to gather around this fort and it became the city of Araucan (later Arauco) on December 7, 1852. Later it became the capital of the department of Araucan and now Commune of Arauco in the Arauco Province

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Demographics

According to the 2002 census of Population and Housing by the National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas or INE) the commune of Arauco spans an area of 956.1 km² (369 sq mi) had 34,873 inhabitants; of these, 24,269 (69.6%) lived in urban areas and 10,604 (30.4%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 17,603 men and 17,270 women. The population grew by 17.6% (5,216 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.^[3]

Administration

As a commune, Arauco is a third-level

administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Mauricio Alarcón Guzmán (ILE).^[4]^[2]

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Arauco is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Manuel Monsalve (PS) and Iván Norambuena (UDI) as part of the 46th electoral district, together with Lota, Lebu, Curanilahue, Los Álamos, Cañete, Contulmo and Tirúa. The commune is represented in the Senate by Victor Pérez Varela (UDI) and Mariano Ruiz-Esquide Jara (PDC) as part of the 13th senatorial constituency (Biobío-Coast).

References

^ "Ilustre Municipalidad de Arauco" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b "Municipality of Arauco" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c "National Statistics Institute" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 September 2010.
^ "Asociación Chilena de Municipalidades" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2011.

Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile, D. Appleton y Compania, Nueva York, 1899
- Arauco (Ciudad de), pg. 47-49
- Arauco Viejo, pg. 50

External links

(in Spanish) Municipality of Arauco

[Muniarauco-1] "Ilustre Municipalidad de Arauco" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2011.

[Official-2] "Municipality of Arauco" (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 February 2011.

[INE-3] "National Statistics Institute" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 September 2010.

[Munitel-4] "Asociación Chilena de Municipalidades" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 February 2010. Retrieved 23 February 2011.

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