San Miguel ( Spanish for "

Saint Michael Michael (; he, מִיכָאֵל, lit=Who is like El od, translit=Mīḵāʾēl; el, Μιχαήλ, translit=Mikhaḗl; la, Michahel; ar, ميخائيل ، مِيكَالَ ، ميكائيل, translit=Mīkāʾīl, Mīkāl, Mīkhāʾīl), also ...

") is a commune of

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located in Santiago Province,

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. It was founded on August 10, 1896.

Administration

As a commune, San Miguel is a third-level

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administered by a

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, headed by an

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who is directly elected every four years. The alcalde's office (''alcaldía'') is located at ''Gran Avenida No. 3418''. The 2012-2016 alcalde is Julio Palestro Velásquez ( PS). The communal council has the following members: * Francia Palestro Contreras ( PS) * Luis Sanhueza Bravo ( RN) * Erika Martinez Osorio ( PC) * Carolina Onofri Salinas ( RN) * David Navarro Carachi ( PRSD) * Felipe Von Unger Valdés (

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) * Rodrigo Iturra Becerra ( PDC) * Ernesto Balcázar Gamboa ( PS) San Miguel belongs to the 28th

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(together with Pedro Aguirre Cerda and Lo Espejo) and the 8th senatorial constituency (Santiago East). It is represented in the

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of the

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by the deputies Guillermo Teillier del Valle ( PCCh) and Pedro Browne Urrejola (RN). It is represented in the Senate by senators Soledad Alvear (PDC) and

Pablo Longueira Juan Pablo Longueira Montes (born August 12, 1958) is a Chilean right-wing politician and industrial civil engineer who served as Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile from 2011 to 2013. He was a founding member of the Independent ...

(UDI).

Demographics

According to the 2002

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses inc ...

of the National Statistics Institute, San Miguel spans an area of and has 78,872 inhabitants (37,836 men and 41,036 women), and the commune is an entirely

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. The population fell by 4.8% (3997 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. The

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for a person from San Miguel is ''sanmiguelino'' for a man or ''sanmiguelina'' for a woman. ;Other statistics: *Average annual household income: US$39,670 ( PPP, 2006) *Population below poverty line: 2.5% (2006) *Regional quality of life index: 82.17, high, 6 out of 52 (2005) *

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: 0.765, 31 out of 341 (2003)

Notable ''sanmiguelinos''

* Los Prisioneros *

Gepe Daniel Alejandro Riveros Sepúlveda (born September 28, 1981), known as Gepe, is a Chilean singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has released five solo albums in addition to one album as a member of the band Taller Dejao. He has been d ...

* Paulina Urrutia * Ruben Palma * Themo Lobos * Francisco Dominguez *

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References

External links

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Municipality of San Miguel
{{Communes in Santiago Metropolitan Region Populated places in Santiago Province, Chile Geography of Santiago, Chile Communes of Chile Populated places established in 1896 1896 establishments in Chile