La Florida (, Spanish for "the flowery") is an urban-suburban commune of

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located in the South East of

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. It is a residential area and its inhabitants are mostly members of a new middle to upper-middle class. It ranks number 12 out of 346 among Chilean communes in terms of

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Demographics

According to the 2017

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of the National Statistics Institute, La Florida spans an area of and has 382,701 inhabitants. 100% lived in

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s and 52.1% were women. It currently has 402,433 inhabitants, which makes it the fourth most populous commune in Chile, after

Puente Alto Puente Alto (Spanish: "Tall Bridge") is a city and commune of Chile. It is the capital of the Cordillera Province in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, and is located in the south-east corner of the Greater Santiago conurbation. Puente Alto has ...

, Maipú and Santiago Centro.

Statistics

*Population below poverty line: 3.1% (2015) *Regional quality of life index: 80.21, high, 13 out of 52 (2005) *

: 0.773, 12 out of 346 (2005) :es:Anexo:Comunas de Chile

Administration

As a commune, La Florida 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. Its mayor for the 2024-2028 term is Daniel Reyes Morales ( UDI). The local council has the following members: Conservatives (6) * Felipe Mancilla Mejías ( RN) * Renata Santander Ramírez ( RN) * Leticia Lagos Vidal ( RN) * Hugo Herrera Baeza ( RN) * Alejandra Parra Galasso ( UDI) * Martina Díaz Carrasco ( REP) Social Democrats (3) * Reinaldo Rosales Méndez ( PDD) * Lia Gálvez Fuentes ( FA) * José Seves Rojas ( PC) * Victoria Oyarzún Carvajal ( PC) Within the

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, La Florida is represented in the

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by Gustavo Hasbún ( UDI) and Camila Vallejo-Dowling ( PC) as part of the 26th District, which consists entirely of the La Florida commune. It is represented in the

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by Manuel José Ossandón (Conservative independent) and Carlos Montes (PS) as part of the 8th Senatorial Constituency (East Santiago).

Education

An English school, the American–British School of La Florida is located in the commune. The area previously had a German school, the Deutsche Marienschule Santiago-La Florida.Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672

Archive
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(West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 21/51.

References

External links

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Municipality of La Florida
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Communes of Chile Populated places established in 1899 1899 establishments in Chile