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Website. Official website (in Spanish) The Biobío Region[5][6][7] (Spanish: Región del Biobío [ˌbi.oˈβi.o]) [8] is one of Chile 's sixteen regions (first-order administrative divisions). With a population of 1.5 million, thus being the third most populated region in Chile, it is divided into three provinces: Arauco, Biobío and Concepción.
56 + 43. Website. Government of Biobío. Biobío Province (Spanish: Provincia de Biobío) is one of three provinces of the Chilean region of Biobío (VIII). Its capital is Los Ángeles (2002 pop. 94,716). It is bounded on the north, west and south by the provinces of Concepción, Arauco and Malleco, respectively, and on the east by Argentina.
A bioregion is a geographical area, on land or at sea, defined not by administrative boundaries but by distinct characteristics such as plant and animal species, ecological systems, soils and landforms, human settlements and cultures those attributes give rise to, and topographic features such as watersheds. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The idea of ...
UTC-3 (CLST [3]) Area code. 56 + 41. Website. Government of Concepción. Concepción Province (Spanish: Provincia de Concepción) is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío (VIII). Its capital, Concepción, is part of the Greater Concepción conurbation, the nation's second largest metropolitan area after Santiago.
Chocó Department (Spanish pronunciation: [tʃoˈko]) is a department of the Pacific region of Colombia known for hosting the largest Afro-Colombian population in the nation, and a large population of Amerindian and mixed African-Amerindian Colombians. It is in the west of the country, and is the only Colombian department to have coastlines on ...
The term bioregion as it relates to bioregionalism is credited to Allen Van Newkirk, a Canadian poet and biogeographer. [28] [29] [30] In this field, the idea of "bioregion" probably goes back much earlier than published material suggests, being floated in early published small press zines by Newkirk, and in conversational dialogue. [31]
The Central America bioregion is a biogeographic region comprising southern Mexico and Central America. The bioregion covers the southern portion of Mexico, all of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua, and all but easternmost Panama. WWF defines bioregions as "geographic clusters of ecoregions that may span ...
t. e. Chile is divided into 16 regions (in Spanish, regiones; singular región), which are the country's first-level administrative division. Each region is headed by directly elected regional governor (gobernador regional) and a regional board (consejo regional). The regions are divided into provinces (the second-level administrative division ...