Copiapó Province

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Copiapo Province)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Script error: No such module "Settlement short description".Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".Expression error: Unexpected < operator

Copiapó Province (Template:Langx) is one of three provinces of the northern Chilean region of Atacama (III). Its capital is the city of Copiapó.

Geography and demography

According to the 2012 census by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the province spans an area of Script error: No such module "convert".[1] and had a population of 183,973 inhabitants, giving it a population density of Script error: No such module "convert".. It is the tenth largest province in the country. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 24.9% (31,021 persons).[1]

Administration

As a province, Copiapó is a second-level administrative division of Chile, which is further divided into three communes (comunas). The province is administered by a presidentially appointed regional delegate.[2]

Communes

  1. Copiapó
  2. Caldera
  3. Tierra Amarilla

References

  1. a b Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".
  2. Cite error: Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".

Script error: No such module "Navbox". Script error: No such module "Navbox".