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Freirina
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 Coat of arms  Map of the commune of Freirina in the Atacama Region   Freirina Location in Chile | |
| Coordinates: 28°30′31″S 71°04′43″W / 28.50861°S 71.07861°W | |
| Country |  Chile |
| Region |  Atacama |
| Province | Huasco |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Alcalde | Roberto Bruzzone Galeb |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,577.7 km2 (1,381.4 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 102 m (335 ft) |
| Population (2012 Census)[2] | |
• Total | 6,038 |
| • Density | 1.688/km2 (4.371/sq mi) |
| Sex | |
| • Men | 2,800 |
| • Women | 2,866 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (CLT[3]) |
| • Summer (DST) | CLST[4] utc_offset_DST = -3 |
| Area code | (+56) 51 |
| Website | imfreirina |
Freirina is a Chilean commune and town in Huasco Province, Atacama Region. The commune spans an area of 3,577.7 km2 (1,381 sq mi).[2] Freirina is both an agricultural and a mining town.
Prior to the founding of Vallenar in 1789 Freirina, then known as Santa Rosa, was the main town of Huasco Valley.[5] The town was renamed to Freirina in honor of Supreme Director Ramón Freire in 1824 when it was raised in settlement category from asiento a villa.[5]
From the 1930s to the 1950s there was significant gold mining in Capote 25 km north of Freirina.[6] For much of the 19th centuiry and then again from 1952 to 1973 El Morado, 40 km south of Freirina, was an important copper mining center.[7][8]
Demographics
[edit]According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute, Freirina had 5,666 inhabitants; of these, 3,469 (61.2%) lived in urban areas and 2,107 (38.8%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 2,800 men and 2,866 women. The population grew by 8.5% (445 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.[2]
Administration
[edit]As a commune, Freirina is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Roberto Bruzzone Galeb.
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Freirina is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Mr. Alberto Robles (PRSD) and Mr. Giovanni Calderón (UDI) as part of the 6th electoral district, (together with Caldera, Tierra Amarilla, Vallenar, Huasco and Alto del Carmen). The commune is represented in the Senate by Isabel Allende Bussi (PS) and Baldo Prokurica Prokurica (RN) as part of the 3rd senatorial constituency (Atacama Region).
Notable people
[edit]- Nicolasa Montt (1857-1924), poet
References
[edit]- ↑ "Municipality of Freirina" (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "National Statistics Institute" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2013-09-11.
- ↑ "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- ↑ "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- 1 2 Zambra 2018, p. 167.
- ↑ Zambra 2018, p. 175.
- ↑ Álvarez Gómez, Oriel (1995). Huasco de cobre (in Spanish). Ediciones de la Universidad de Atacama. pp. 158–162.
- ↑ Castillo Jorquera, Nicoll; Tapia Viera, Miguel, eds. (2016). “Geoturismo en el Valle del Huasco: Un aporte de las geociencias al desarrollo y crecimiento del turismo tradicional” (PDF) (in Spanish). pp. 13–16.
- Bibliography
- Zambra, Jorge Eduardo (2018). Huasco Esencial [Essential Huasco] (in Spanish). Ediciones Mediodía en Punto. ISBN 978-956-9170-35-5.
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