San Antonio Province

San Antonio Province (Provincia de San Antonio) is one of eight provinces of the central Chilean region of Valparaíso (V). The port city of San Antonio is the capital of the province.

Geography
The San Antonio province has an area of 1511.6 km2, the third smallest province in the Valparaíso region; only the Quillota and Marga Marga provinces are smaller.

The San Antonio province is on the coast along the Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the north by the Casablanca commune (Valparaíso province), on the east by the Melipilla commune (Santiago Metropolitan region), to the south with the Navidad commune (Cardenal Caro province, O'Higgins region), and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The San Antonio valley is a small region where wine is produced. It is very close to the sea around the city of San Antonio, at only 90 km west of Santiago.

Population
(last national census), there were 136,594 people living in the province, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km².

The largest city of the province is San Antonio, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 87,205 inhabitants.

Administration
As a province, San Antonio is a second-level administrative division, consisting of six communes (comunas). The city of San Antonio serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

Related pages

 * Provinces of Chile

Other websites

 * Territorial division of Chile
 * Gobierno Regional de Valparaíso Official website
 * Province of San Antonio website