Quitento (commonly misspelled Quilento and Quileto) is a Chilean village located at the south of
Portezuelo, near the Cucha-Cucha estate.
It is currently part of the Portezuelo commune,
Itata Province
The Itata Province is one of the three provinces of the Ñuble Region;, its capital is Quirihue.
Communes
*Quirihue (11.429)
*Cobquecura (1.493)
*Ninhue (5.738)
*Treguaco (5.296)
* Portezuelo (4.953)
*Coelemu (16.082)
*Ránquil (5.683)
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Ñuble Region
The Ñuble Region ( es, Región de Ñuble), officially the Region of Ñuble ( es, Región de Ñuble), is — since 5 September 2018 – one of Chile's sixteen regions. It spans an area of , making it the smallest region in Chile in terms of area ...
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Originally itself an estate,
it turned into a village in later years. It is located near the
Quitento River, which derives from the
Ñuble River
The Ñuble River or Rio Ñuble is a river in Ñuble Region, located in the southern portion of central Chile. Its main tributaries are Chillán and Claro River. The Ñuble River discharges into the Itata River.
Nuble River Level
It is a Class IV ...
and was just two
leagues long within the 5th Subdelegation of the historical
Itata Department.
Later in the 19th century, in 1885, the district of
Quitento, the third of the
Portezuelo subdelegation, in Itata Department, was created. Its limits were: "at the north, the first district and part of the second one; at the west, a line between the San José estate houses, property of José Asandro Romero, extending up to the houses of Santa Ana estate, of Carlos Gutiérrez, continuing to the south by the public road until the Cucha-Cucha flow, beside the Isidoro Torres house, a place named Caulle, beneath the Cucha-Cucha flow; and south, another line that, beginning on the aforementioned houses, continues to the west, passes by a place where there are three
palmas and finishing in the top of Comén hill".
References
Populated places in Itata Province
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