La Granja (

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for "the farm") is a

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Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

located in Santiago Province,

Santiago Metropolitan Region Santiago Metropolitan Region ( es, link=no, Región Metropolitana de Santiago) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions. It is the country's only landlocked administrative region and contains the nation's capital, Santiago. Mos ...

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 in ...

of the National Statistics Institute, La Granja spans an area of and has 132,520 inhabitants (64,750 men and 67,770 women), and the commune is an entirely

urban area An urban area, built-up area or urban agglomeration is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities ...

. The population fell by 0.6% (765 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. The 2006 projected population was 129,707.

Stats

*Average annual household income: US$24,662 ( PPP, 2006) *Population below poverty line: 14.2% (2006) *Regional quality of life index: 77.93, mid-high, 18 out of 52 (2005) *

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: 0.689, 158 out of 341 (2003)

Administration

As a commune, La Granja 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 2012-2016 alcalde is Felipe Delpin Aguilar ( DC). The communal council has the following members: * Cristián Carmona Macaya ( DC) * Rodrigo Quezada Arriagada (IND) * Juan Valdés Valdés ( PS) * Germán Pino Maturana ( PPD) * Sergio Robles Pinto ( PC) * Silvana Poblete Romero ( PS) * Berta Venegas Maldonado ( DC) * Patricio Oyarce Bravo ( UDI) Within the electoral divisions of Chile, La Granja is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Felipe Salaberry ( UDI) and Ximena Vidal ( PPD) as part of the 25th electoral district, (together with

Macul Macul ( Quechua: "to stretch out right hand") is a commune (smallest administrative subdivision in Chile) of Chile located in the central-eastern part of the Greater Santiago area, bordered by the communes of Ñuñoa to the north, San Joaquín ...

and San Joaquín). The commune is represented in the Senate by

Soledad Alvear María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela (born September 17, 1950), is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician, who was a cabinet member of the Aylwin, Frei and Lagos administrations. She was president of the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) fro ...

(PDC) and Pablo Longueira (UDI) as part of the 8th senatorial constituency (Santiago-East).

References

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