Pencahue () is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
** Communes of ...
in
Chile
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, located in
Talca Province
Talca Province ( es, Provincia de Talca) is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule (VII). Its capital is the city of Talca.
Administration
As a province, Talca is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed b ...
, in the seventh
region
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of
Maule. The commune spans and area of .
Also there are another three places called Pencahue, near to San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Sexta Región, Chile. Their names are: Pencahue Central, Pencahue Abajo (some people call it only Pencahue Bajo) and Plaza de Pencahue.
Demographics
According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, Pencahue had 8,315 inhabitants; of these, 2,037 (24.5%) lived in
urban area
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s and 6,278 (75.5%) in
rural area
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s. At that time, there were 4,517 men and 3,798 women. The population grew 5.9% (461 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.
Administration
As a commune, Pencahue is a third-level
administrative division of Chile administered by a
municipal council
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, headed by an
alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012/2012-2016 alcalde is Lucy Lara Leiva (
RN).
Within the
electoral divisions of Chile, Pencahue is represented in the
Chamber of Deputies by Pablo Lorenzini (
PDC) and Pedro Pablo Alvarez-Salamanca (
UDI Udi may refer to:
Places
* Udi, Enugu, a local government areas and city in Nigeria
* Udi, a place in the Etawah district of Uttar Pradesh, India
People
* Udi Gal (born 1979), Israeli Olympic sailor
* Udi Vaks (born 1979), Israeli Olympic judoka
...
) as part of the 38th electoral district, together with
Curepto,
Constitución,
Empedrado,
Maule,
San Clemente
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,
Pelarco,
Río Claro and
San Rafael. The commune is represented in the
Senate by Juan Antonio Coloma Correa (UDI) and
Andrés Zaldívar Larraín (PDC) as part of the 10th senatorial constituency (Maule-North).
References
External links
*
Municipality of Pencahue
{{Communes in Maule Region
Populated places in Talca Province
Communes of Chile