Llanquihue Province

Coordinates: 41°20′S 72°50′W / 41.333°S 72.833°W / -41.333; -72.833
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Llanquihue Province
Provincia de Llanquihue
Llanquihue Lake and the Osorno Volcano
Capital
Puerto Montt
Communes
Government
 • Type
UTC-3 (CLST[3])
Area code56 + 65
WebsiteGovernment of Llanquihue

Llanquihue Province (

Puntiagudo and Cerro Tronador
.

Jewish refugees came from Germany.[4]

The region is well known for the beauty of its natural environment as well as for the food and seafood from the ports of Puerto Montt and Calbuco.

Administration

As a province, Llanquihue is a second-level

capital. The provincial governor is Francisco Le-Bretón as appointed by the President of Chile
.

Communes

Geography and demography

According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the province spans an area of 14,876.4 km2 (5,744 sq mi)[1] and had a population of 321,493 inhabitants (162,636 men and 158,857 women), giving it a population density of 21.6/km2 (56/sq mi). Of these, 232,962 (72.5%) lived in urban and 88,531 (27.5%) in rural areas. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 22.4% (58,931 persons).[1]

Cities

References

  1. ^ 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 23 March 2011.
  2. ^ "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
  3. ^ "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
  4. ^ (in Spanish) Colonización alemana en Llanquihue Archived 2013-01-16 at the Wayback Machine