Los Álamos is a

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and

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Arauco Province Arauco Province ( es, Provincia de Arauco) is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío. It spans a coastal area of just south of the mouth of the Biobío River, the traditional demarcation between the nation's major natural reg ...

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Demographics

According to the 2002

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of the

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, Los Álamos spans an area of and has 18,632 inhabitants (9,456 men and 9,176 women). Of these, 16,394 (88%) lived in

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s and 2,238 (12%) in

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s. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 10.4% (1,762 persons). The commune includes the locality of

Antihuala Antihuala or Antiguala,(mapudungum: ''anti'': sun; ''huala'': duck.) is a town in the Los Álamos commune of the Arauco Province, Bío Bío Region, of Chile. On February 5, 1558, during the Arauco War, Pedro de Avendaño with sixty men captured ...

Administration

As a commune, Los Álamos is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a

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, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Lautaro Melita Vinett ( PS). Since 2013 and until the present the alcalde of Los Álamos is Jorge Fuentes Fetis Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Los Álamos is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Manuel Monsalve (PS) and Iván Norambuena ( UDI) as part of the 46th electoral district, together with Lota, Lebu, Arauco,

Curanilahue Curanilahue () is a Chilean commune and city in Arauco Province, Biobío Region. Its name comes from Mapundungun "Cura", meaning "Stone", and "Nilahue" meaning "Ford". Demographics According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Instit ...

, Cañete, Contulmo and Tirúa. The commune is represented in the Senate by Victor Pérez Varela (UDI) and Mariano Ruiz-Esquide Jara ( PDC) as part of the 13th senatorial constituency (Biobío-Coast).

Culture

In the literary field, Los Álamos stands out for its poets. Among these, one can name René Briones Sandoval, Maribel Castro Vergara, Olga Ester Garrido, Marta Díaz Pereira, María Rocha, Manuel Castro, Mac Karo, who were anthologized in the magazine ''Chonchón'' n°39, published in September 2020. In addition, During the years 2018 and 2019, the poets of Los Álamos participated in the I and II Latin American Meeting of Poets and Narrators in Lebu, events that included the presence of authors from the Province of Arauco, such as Lidia Mansilla Valenzuela and Alejandro Concha M., and from abroad, such as Jorge Canales and Amapola, from El Salvador, Chary Gumeta and José Baroja, from

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, and Felicidad Batista, from

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, among other participants.

References

External links

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Municipality of Los Álamos
{{DEFAULTSORT:Los Alamos Communes of Chile Populated places in Arauco Province