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The Valparaíso Region (Spanish: Región de Valparaíso, pronounced [balpaɾaˈiso]) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. [FN 1] With the country's second-highest population of 1,790,219 as of 2017, and fourth-smallest area of 16,396.1 km 2 (6,331 sq mi), the region is Chile's second most densely populated after the Santiago Metropolitan Region to the southeast. [1]
The city in State of Siege. El Mercurio, 1903 The twentieth century began with the first big protest of dockworkers, Chile on 15 April 1903, due to complaints by dockers about their excessive working hours and demands for higher wages, requests that were ignored by employers, creating a tense situation that led to serious violence on 12 May.
Greater Valparaíso (Gran Valparaíso) is the third largest metropolitan area in Chile, after the Greater Concepción and Greater Santiago. It takes this name after the city of Valparaíso, the oldest city of the group and the most important harbour in Chile. It's total population is 979,127 at the 2012 census, with an area of 401.6 square ...
It is located very close to the sea around the city of San Antonio, Chile, south of the Casablanca Valley and only 55 miles (90 km) west of Santiago. As in other Chilean wine regions, like the Casablanca Valley , San Antonio is highly influenced by the cooling effect of the Pacific Ocean which makes wine production possible in this area.
There were two routes from Valparaiso to Fort Wayne. The first route went farther north passing through South Bend, Elkhart, and Goshen. The second route was the most direct route from Valparaiso to Fort Wayne, passing through Plymouth, Warsaw, and Columbia City. The Old Lincoln Highway on the southside of Ligonier
The province spans a coastal area of 2,146.6 km 2 (829 sq mi), the fourth largest in the Valparaíso Region. According to the 2002 census, Valparaíso was the most populous province in the region with a population of 651,821.
Quilpué is a city and capital of the Marga Marga Province in central Chile's Valparaíso Region.It is part of the Greater Valparaíso metropolitan area.It is widely known as "City of the Sun" (Ciudad del Sol) and the urban part of it also comprises the town of El Belloto, an area that showed rapid growth in the late 1990s.
The province spans a landlocked area of 1,113.1 km 2 (430 sq mi), the smallest in the Valparaíso Region with the exception of Isla de Pascua (Easter Island). According to the 2002 census, Quillota is the third most populous province in the region with a population of 175,917.