Marga Marga Province
Marga Marga Province () is one of eight provinces of the central Chilean region of Valparaiso (V). The city of Quilpue is the capital of the province.
The province of Marga Marga was created in 2010 with 2 communes of the Valparaiso province, Quilpue and Villa Alemana, and 2 communes of the province of Quillota, Limache and Olmue.
Geography
The Marga Marga province has an area of, the sixth largest province in the Valparaiso region; only the Quillota and Isla de Pascua provinces are smaller.
Marga Marga is a landlocked province (it does not border the ocean) and is bordered on the north by the Quillota province, on the east and south by Santiago Metropolitan region, and to the west by the Valparaiso province.
Population
(last national census), there were 277,525 people living in the province, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km2.
The largest city of the province is Quilpue, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 128,578 inhabitants. Other cities are Villa Alemana (95,623), Limache (39,219) and Olmue (14,105).
Administration
As a province, Marga Marga is a second-level administrative division, consisting of four communes (comunas). The city of Quilpue serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.
Related pages
Provinces of Chile
References
Other websites
Territorial division of Chile
Gobierno Regional de Valparaiso Official website
Province of Marga Marga website
Provinces of Chile