Traiguén () is a
Chile
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an
city
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and
commune in the
Malleco Province
Malleco Province () is one of two provinces in the southern Chilean region of La Araucanía (IX). Its population as of the 2017 census is 205,124, and it covers an area of . The provincial capital is the city of Angol.
Malleco Province is known ...
,
Araucanía Region
The Araucanía ( ), La Araucanía Region ( ) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions, and comprises two provinces: Malleco in the north and Cautín in the south. Its capital and largest city is Temuco; other important cities ...
.
Demographics
According to the 2002
census
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of the
National Statistics Institute, Traiguén spans an area of and has 19,534 inhabitants (9,734 men and 9,800 women). Of these, 14,140 (72.4%) lived in
urban area
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s and 5,394 (27.6%) in
rural area
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s. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population fell by 5.3% (1,088 persons).
Administration
As a commune, Traiguén is a third-level
administrative division of Chile
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administered by a
municipal council
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, headed by an
alcalde
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who is directly elected every four years. The 2012-2016 alcalde is Luis Alvarez (
Ind.).And The municipal council 2012-2016 has the following members:
*Ricardo Sanhueza Pirce
PPD
*Essio Guidotti Vallejos
PPD
*Eliecer Cerda Soto
IND
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General
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*Pablo Mena Osses
PRS
*Roberto Weidmann Ramirez
UDI
*Rosanna Rathgeb Fuentes
RN
Within the
electoral divisions of Chile
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# Chamber of Deputies of Chile, Chamber of Deputies and Senate of Chile, Senate: Chile is divided into electoral districts and senatorial constituencies for ...
, Traiguén is represented in the
Chamber of Deputies
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Description
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by Gonzalo Arenas (UDI) and Mario Venegas (PDC) as part of the 48th electoral district, together with
Angol
Angol is a commune and capital city of the Malleco Province in the Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It is located at the foot of the Cordillera de Nahuelbuta and next to the Vergara River, that permitted communications by small boats to the ...
,
Renaico,
Collipulli,
Ercilla,
Los Sauces,
Purén
Purén is a List of cities in Chile, city (2002 pop. 12,868) and Communes of Chile, commune in Malleco Province of La Araucanía Region, Chile. It is located in the west base of the Cordillera de Nahuelbuta (650 km. south of Santiago). The ec ...
and
Lumaco. The commune is represented in the
Senate
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by Alberto Espina Otero (RN) and Jaime Quintana Leal (
PPD) as part of the 14th senatorial constituency (Araucanía-North).
Climate
Education
Previously the area had a German school, the Deutsche Schule Traiguén.
[Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672]
Archive
. Bundestag
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(West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 24/51.
References
External links
*
Municipality of TraiguénPortal web of traiguen city : www.traiguencity.cl
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Communes of Chile
Populated places in Malleco Province