Cardenal Caro Province
Cardenal Caro Province
Provincia Cardenal Caro | |
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 Government of Cardenal Caro Province building, on March 12, 2011. | |
 Seal  Coat of arms | |
 Location of Cardenal Caro Province in the Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region | |
| Country | Chile |
| Region | O'Higgins |
| Founded | October 3, 1979[1] |
| Capital | Pichilemu |
| Communes | |
| Government | |
| • Type | Provincial |
| • Governor | Teresa Núñez Cornejo[2] |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,324.8 km2 (1,283.7 sq mi) |
| Population (2012 Census)[3] | |
• Total | 39,068 |
| • Density | 12/km2 (30/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 18,433 |
| • Rural | 22,727 |
| Sex | |
| • Men | 22,127 |
| • Women | 19,033 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (CLT [4]) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (CLST [5]) |
| Area code | 56 + 72 |
| Website | Government of Cardenal Caro |
Cardenal Caro Province (Template:Lang-es[6]) is one of the three provinces of the central Chilean region of O'Higgins (VI). The capital of Cardenal Caro is Pichilemu.[7]
Name
The province is named after Cardinal José María Caro Rodríguez, native of Pichilemu, and who was the first Cardinal of Chile.
Official name in Spanish
The Spanish name used by the government of the province is "Provincia de Cardenal Caro".
The Spanish name used by datos.gob.cl is "Provincia Cardenal Caro" [8]
History
On July 13, 1973, President Salvador Allende Gossens decreed the creation of the Cardenal Caro Department. The decree was published in the Diario Oficial de la República de Chile in August of the same year, making it official.[1] Marchigüe was declared the capital. However, the coup d'état that occurred in September of that year made the decree "dead text".[1]
The province of Cardenal Caro was created on October 3, 1979 by General Augusto Pinochet.[1] The communes of Litueche (formerly El Rosario), La Estrella, Marchihue, Paredones, and Pichilemu, originally from Colchagua Province; and Navidad, originally from San Antonio Province, formed the province.[1]
Administration
As a province, Cardenal Caro is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president. The province is composed by six communes (Spanish: comunas), each of which is governed by a popularly elected alcalde.
Communes
| Communes of Cardenal Caro | |
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Geography and demography
According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the province spans an area of 3,324.7 km2 (1,284 sq mi)[3] and had a population of 41,160 inhabitants (22,127 men and 19,033 women), giving it a population density of 12.4/km2 (32/sq mi). Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 11.2% (4,151 persons). persons).[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e Saldías, Washington (2005-10-03). "Provincia Cardenal Caro de cumpleaños" (in Spanish). Pichilemu, Chile: Pichilemu News. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
- ^ El Expreso de la Costa, March 2014, page 5.
- ^ a b c d e "Territorial division of Chile" (PDF) (in Spanish). National Statistics Institute. 2007. Retrieved 2011-03-19.
- ^ "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
- ^ "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
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- ^ "Información Cívica" (in Spanish). Pichilemu, Chile: Government of Cardenal Caro Province. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2010-11-09.
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External links
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| Cardenal Caro | ||
| Colchagua | ||
Provincial capitals in italics • Regional capital in bold | ||