Illapel

Illapel is a Chilean city; it is the capital of the Choapa province, Coquimbo region. It is in the most narrow point of the country along a parallel, 94 km.

Geography
The commune of Illapel has an area of 2629.1 km2. It is to the north of Santiago at 281 km and to the northeast of the seaport city of Los Vilos at 54 km.

The commune is bordered on the north by the Combarbalá and Monte Patria (a small part) communes, both of the Limarí province, on the east by Argentina, on the south by the Salamanca and Los Vilos communes, and on the west by the Canela commune.

The city of Illapel is along the Illapel river, a tributary of the Choapa river, that is 85 km long.

Population
(last national census), there were 30,355 people living in the commune, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km².

The city of Illapel has an urban area of 7.39 km2 and a population, in 2002, of 21,826 inhabitants.

Related pages

 * Communes of Chile
 * Provinces of Chile

Other websites

 * Territorial division of Chile
 * Gobierno Regional de Coquimbo Official website
 * Province of Choapa website