Curicó Province

Curicó Province (Provincia de Curicó) is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule (VII). Its capital and largest city is Curicó.

Geography
The Curicó province has an area of 7280.9 sqmi, the third largest province in the Maule region. The provincial capital, Curicó, is about 182 km south of Santiago.

The province is bordered to the northwest by the Cardenal Caro province (O'Higgins region), to the north by the Colchagua province (O'Higgins region), to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Talca provinces and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

Population
(last national census), there were 244,053 people living in the province, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km². The urban population was 157,876 persons (65% of the total).

The largest city of the province is Curicó, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 93,447.

Administration
As a province, Curicó is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 9 communes (comunas). The city of Curicó 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 del Maule Official website
 * Province of Curicó website