Huachipato, Chile
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| Country | Chile |
| Region | Biobío |
| Province | Concepción |
| Commune | Talcahuano |
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Huachipato is census district and neighbourhood in Talcahuano Commune, part of the conurbation of Greater Concepción in the Biobío Region of southern Chile.[1] It is the industrialized part of the commune supporting a steel mill and oil refinery.[3]
Etymology
The word huachipato is a Mapuche word meaning "a trap to catch birds".[4] It may be the result of a mixture of Spanish and Mapuche, where the local name for a snare is huache or huachi.
Demographics
The district is completely urban and had a population of 9,665 as of the 2002 census with 2,415 housing units.[2]
History
Because of the high cost of pig iron from the aging steel mill in Corral, the Chilean Development Corporation (CORFO) decided to support building a new steel mill in Huachipato. Compañía de Acero del Pacífico was formed[5] and began construction in 1947. The mill now named "Siderúrgica Huachipato" was completed in 1950.[6][7] From the 1960s to the 1990s the mine of El Romeral provided most of the iron to the mill.[8][9]
The same year that construction of the steel mill started, a football club, Club Deportivo Huachipato, was founded. As their initial fans were employees of the local steel company, they adopted the nickname Acereros ("Steelers").[4]
In 1966 Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (ENAP) opened an oil refinery in Huachipato.[3]
The steel mill the town grew around was shut down on October 22, 2024, largely due to the inability to compete with cheaper Chinese steel prices and growing financial losses.[10]
References
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- ^ a b [[[:Template:GEOnet name search]] Huachipato (Approved - N)] at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."División Político Administrativa y Censal" (PDF) (in español). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE). 2007. p. 177. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2013.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hitos: Polo Industrial ENAP-HUACHIPATO" (in español). Talcahuano. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Rojas, Diego (May 2013). "Huachipato: La historia del Campeón del sur". El Hincha (in español). Archived from the original on 11 August 2015.
- ^ It was created with mixed ownership by CORFO, which retained a 33% interest for the government, the Autonomous Sinking Fund of Public Debt (Caja Autónoma de Amortización de la Deuda Pública) put up 14% and individual private shareholders purchased the remaining 53%. The steel mill is now run by their corporate division "CAP Acero". Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."CAP Acero". CAP S.A. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Butland, Gilbert J. (1951). Chile : an outline of its geography, economics, and politics. London: Oxford University Press for the Royal Institute of International Affairs. p. 97.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Prebisch, Raúl, ed. (1954). Study of the Prospectsof Inter-Latin-American Trade (PDF). New York: United Nations. p. 101. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 August 2015.
- ^ Millán 1999, p. 153
- ^ Millán 1999, p. 154
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Huachipato's Closure and Chile's Steel Industry Future". 23 October 2024. Archived from the original on 13 August 2025. Retrieved 22 October 2025.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Millán, Augusto (1999). Historia de la minería del hierro en Chile (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria. ISBN 956-11-1499-2.
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