Freirina
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Freirina
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| Country | File:Flag of Chile.svg Chile |
| Region | File:Flag of Atacama, Chile.svg Atacama |
| Province | Huasco |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipality |
| • Alcalde | Roberto Bruzzone Galeb |
| Area | |
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| Sex | |
| • Men | 2,800 |
| • Women | 2,866 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (CLT[3]) |
| • Summer (DST) | CLST[4] utc_offset_DST = -3 |
| Template:Pluralize from text | (+56) 51Template:Pluralize from text |
| Website | imfreirina |
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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.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. 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.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
From the 1930s to the 1950s there was significant gold mining in Capote 25 km north of Freirina.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. 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.[5][6]
Demographics
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
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
- Nicolasa Montt (1857-1924), poet
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Municipality of Freirina" (in español). Archived from the original on 2013-06-03. Retrieved 2013-09-11.
- ^ a b c d e Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."National Statistics Institute" (in español). Retrieved 2013-09-11.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Álvarez Gómez, Oriel (1995). Huasco de cobre (in español). Ediciones de la Universidad de Atacama. pp. 158–162.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.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 español). pp. 13–16.
- Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Zambra, Jorge Eduardo (2018). Huasco Esencial [Essential Huasco] (in español). Ediciones Mediodía en Punto. ISBN 978-956-9170-35-5.
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