Colchagua Province

The Colchagua Province (Provincia de Colchagua) is one of three provinces of the central Chilean region of Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins (VI).

Its capital is the city of San Fernando.

Geography
The Colchagua province has an area of 5678 sqmi, the second largest and the most southern province of the O'Higgins region.

Colchagua is a landlocked province (it does not border the ocean) and is bordered to the north by the Cachapoal province, to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Curicó province (Maule region) and to the west by the Cardenal Caro province.

The Tinguiririca volcano is in this province near the border with Argentina, in the Andes. It was near this volcano that the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 57 crashed in 1972 with its survivors lost for seventy-two days.

Population
The people from the province are called Colchagüino (women: Colchagüina).

(last national census), there were 196,566 people living in the province, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km²..

The largest city of the province is San Fernando, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 49,519 inhabitants.

Administration
As a province, Cachapoal is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 10 communes (comunas). The city of San Fernando 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 O'Higgins Official website
 * Province of Colchagua website