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Curicó
File:Curico coat of arms.jpg File:Curico flag.jpg
City seal City flag
City motto: " Noble y Leal Villa de San José de Buena Vista de Curicó"
Also called "City of the cakes"
Founded October 9, 1743,
Original Name San José de Buena Vista de Curicó
Region Maule Region
Area
 - City Proper
 1,328 km²
Population
 - City (2005)
 - Density (city proper)
120.113 Inhabitants
90,02 /km²
Time zone Santiago Time Zone, UTC- 4
Telephone Prefix 75
Postal code 3349001
Gentilic Curicano
Day 9 October
Mayor Celso Morales (UDI)
(2004-2008)
Official site http://www.curico.cl

The map of the Curico in the Maule Region.

Curicó (kūrēkō')"Black Water" in Mapudungun originally meaning "Land of Black Water" is the name of a city and capital of Curicó Province, concern of a Region del Maule in the central valley Chile.

The province lies between the provinces of Colchagua and Talca and extends from the Pacific to the Argentine frontier; area, 2978 sq. m.; pop. (2005) 102,439 inhabitants. Is characteristical of the city, the cakes, fruits and wines for exportation of international quality.

Geography

The Main Square of Curico, called Plaza de Armas

The capital is Curicó, on the Guaiquillo river, in lat. 34 58' S. long. 71° 19' W., 114 mi. S. of Santiago by the Chilean Central railway, which crosses the province. The city stands on the great central plain, 748 ft. above sea-level, and in the midst of a comparatively well-cultivated district.

The eastern and western sections are mountainous, and are separated by the fertile valley of central Chile. The mineral resources are undeveloped, but are said to include copper, gold and silver. Cattle, wheat and wine are the principal products, but Indian corn and fruit also are produced. On the coast are important salt-producing industries.

The main rivers are Guaquillo and Teno, these are around of the city. The landscape is sway by Andes Montains and the Coast Montain.

Climate

Curico has a mild Mediterranean climate: relatively hot dry summers (November to March) with temperatures reaching up to 32 degrees celsius on the hottest days.

The winters (June to August) are more humid, with typical maximum daily temperatures of 15 degrees Celsius, and minimums of a few degrees above freezing. Mean rainfall is 855.98 mm per year.

The climate is mild and the rainfall more abundant than at the northern part of the valley, and the effects of this are to be seen in the better pasturage. Irrigation is used to a large extent.

Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Avg high °F (°C) 86
(30) 		85
(29) 		82
(28) 		72
(22) 		63
(17) 		55
(13) 		54
(12) 		59
(15) 		62
(17) 		69
(21) 		79
(26) 		83
(28) 		71
(22)
Avg low temperature °F (°C) 51
(11) 		49
(9) 		45
(7) 		41
(5) 		41
(5) 		37
(3) 		33
(0.5) 		36
(2) 		39
(4) 		41
(5) 		44
(7) 		48
(9) 		42
(6)
Rainfall in. (mm) 0.2
(5) 		0.3
(8) 		0.2
(5) 		3.0
(77) 		5.6
(142) 		4.5
(114) 		9.7
(246) 		2.4
(61) 		6.6
(68) 		0.6
(15) 		0.4
(10) 		0.2
(5) 		33.7
(855.98)
Source: Weatherbase

History

The central square of Curico in 1901, the most famous image of Curico

It was founded in 1743 by Jose Manso de Velasco during a Spanish regime in the Americas, and is one of the more cultured and progressive provincial towns of Chile.

In 1747 Governator Domingo Ortiz de Rozas decided to move it about 5 kilometers north, where it is now located, because of the big humity that existed where it was first located.

The most old and valuable building of the city is La Iglesia San Francisco developed 1731 and came 1758 to its current point of view. Curicó gained its title of ‘city’ in 1830. The city was destroy by the earthquake in 1928 and rebuilding in the next year.

The hero of the city is Luis Cruz Martínez, a chilean military of the War of the Pacific, deading in 1882, in Perú.

Today Curicó is a center of communication, supply and commercial transactions of neighboring agricultural industries, making it an attractive and buoyant commercial center.

Economy

File:Curico notes.jpg
Curicó banknotes in 1882 (20 pesos)


The strongpoint of the activities development in the city are related with the agriculture, because the climate mediterranean and his adventages in the business, creating comparative advantages with other markets such as apples, wines, and cherries.

In the industrial sectors of most relevants are wine industries, agroindustries, stand out cement and sugar. Furthermore the economic force of the Vineyards is a great core of develop and investment for the city.

In Human Develop the city had 0,716 (UNDP, Chile 2000), reaching the 97th. position in the municipalities of Chile [[1]].


Tourism and Society

population
trend
year inhabitants
1895 12.669
1952 28.618
1960 34.646
1970 43.524
1982 63.658
1992 77.733
2002 119.585
2005 120.113

Between 15 and 20 March celebrates the city each year a large wine celebration, the Fiesta de la Vendimia. In the region there is its own crying race, The Ruta del Vino in Curico Valley. Potrero Grande is appropriate for about 30 km of Curicó far away. A hilly area ideally to moving and Campen with large forests and waterfall. The rivers around Curicó are with Trekking friends like.

Known to the country as " the city of cakes" ( made of manjar and Egg fruit), and for the good wine must. It is a land of fertile farms which has given the city its distinguished countryside cultural sediments.

The most known attraction of the city are the Plaza de Armas, declared a "Typical Zone", which is surrounded by palm trees, sculpture-ornamented water fountains, the iron-made civil kiosks, also declared a National Monument and the Toqui Lautaro monument carved on the trunk of a beech tree, created by the known craftsman of Vichuquén, Heraclio "Kako" Calquín.

At a few blocks from the plaza, the Alameda Antonio Manso de Velasco avenue crosses the city with its gardens and leafy trees. There is also the Condell hill, a place from which you can have a panoramic view of the city and you can also sight the San Francisco church, a declared National Monument, situated at the feet of the same hill.

Culture Life

File:Alameda in 1910.gif
Alameda, central avenue of the city in 1910

The city had a four higher-education institutions:


The city had a one of the most older newspapers of Chile La Prensa de Curicó (Press of Curico), founded in 1898, his officers is in the front of the central square [6]

Victoria Theatre, inaugurated in 1929, refounded in 2005 is the main place of culture

The Plaza de Armas (Main Square) is the most visited public place, and now is "typical tourism zone" because of its 60 palms and exoctics plants. There are a steel kiosk which is historical and cultural monument. Around Plaza de Armas, is located the Mayor's House and the Governator's House.

Sports

File:Cover La prensa curico.jpg
La Prensa, the newspaper of the city since 1897

Curicó is know by his Bicycle culture,and is represented in the denomination of Curicó as cyclism`s capital of Chile, because so many cyclists of international level started in the city to rode, such as: Roberto Muñoz, Manuel Aravena, Luis Sepúlveda and anothers.

Today the city live a great revolution with the return, (after 13 years in the amateur league) of his football team to the professional league in 2006, the name of this is Club Provincial Curicó Unido.

Furtermore in the chilean sports, the Rodeo is too figurative in the national competitions, stand out the horsemen such as Ramon Cardemil, Pablo Quera and anothers.

Sources

  • [9] Information about cultural life and tourism.
  • [10] Report about urbanization in Latin American cities.

Public Domain This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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