Concepción Province | |
Native Name: | Provincia de Concepción |
Native Name Lang: | es |
Settlement Type: | Province |
Mapsize: | 175px |
Map Alt: | Location in the Bío Bío Region |
Pushpin Map: | Chile |
Pushpin Map Alt: | Location in Chile |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 175 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Chile |
Coordinates: | -36.9667°N -128°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Chile |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Bío Bío |
Parts Style: | coll |
P1: | Concepción |
P2: | Coronel |
P3: | Chiguayante |
P4: | Florida |
P5: | Hualpén |
P6: | Hualqui |
P7: | Lota |
P8: | Penco |
P9: | San Pedro de la Paz |
P10: | Santa Juana |
P11: | Talcahuano |
Seat Type: | Capital |
Seat: | Concepción |
Government Type: | Provincial |
Leader Party: | RN |
Leader Title: | Governor |
Leader Name: | Julio Anativia Zamora |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 3439.0 |
Population Total: | 959336 |
Population As Of: | 2012 Census |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Population Blank1 Title: | Urban |
Population Blank1: | 879,854 |
Population Blank2 Title: | Rural |
Population Blank2: | 33,035 |
Demographics Type1: | Sex |
Demographics1 Title1: | Men |
Demographics1 Info1: | 441,953 |
Demographics1 Title2: | Women |
Demographics1 Info2: | 470,936 |
Timezone: | CLT[2] |
Utc Offset: | -4 |
Timezone Dst: | CLST[3] |
Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
Area Code: | 56 + 41 |
Website: | Government of Concepción |
Concepción Province (Spanish; Castilian: Provincia de Concepción) is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío (VIII). Its capital, Concepción, is part of the Greater Concepción conurbation, the nation's second largest metropolitan area after Santiago.
As a province, Concepción is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president.
The province comprises twelve communes, each governed by a municipality consisting of an elected alcalde and municipal council.
According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the province spans an area of 3439.3sqkm[1] and had a population of 912,889 inhabitants (441,953 men and 470,936 women), giving it a population density of 265.4PD/sqkm. It is the second most populated province after the more than five times larger Santiago Province (pop. 4,668,473). Of these, 879,854 (96.4%) lived in urban areas and 33,035 (3.6%) in rural areas. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 8.5% (71,444 persons).[1]