Arauco Province
Arauco Province
Provincia de Arauco | ||
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| Area code | 56 + 41 | |
| Website | Governorate of Arauco | |
Arauco Province (
capital Lebu (population 25,000) is situated on the coast about 90 km (56 mi) south of Concepción with which it is connected by rail.[4]
Administration
As a province, Arauco is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president.
Communes
The province is composed of seven communes, each governed by a municipality consisting of an elected alcalde and municipal council.
- Arauco
- Cañete
- Contulmo
- Curanilahue
- Lebu (provincial capital)
- Los Álamos
- Tirúa
Geography and demography
According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the province spans an area of 5,457.2 km2 (2,107 sq mi)[1] and had a population of 157,255 inhabitants (79,263 men and 77,992 women), giving it a population density of 28.8/km2 (75/sq mi). Of these, 117,569 (74.8%) lived in urban areas and 39,686 (25.2%) in rural areas. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 5% (7,554 persons).[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Territorial division of Chile" (PDF) (in Spanish). National Statistics Institute. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2010. Retrieved 18 March 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.
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arauco". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 322.
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