La Pintana is a
commune
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of
Chile
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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 ...
. La Pintana is home to Antumapu, the agricultural and veterinary sciences campus of
University of Chile
The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843. , Chile's oldest university.
Demographics
According to the 1999
census
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of the
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, La Pintana spans an area of and has 190,085 inhabitants (94,963 men and 95,122 women), and the commune is an entirely
urban area
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. The population grew by 12.1% (20,445 persons) between the 1990 and 1999 censuses.
The 2006 projected population was 201,183.
Stats
*Average annual household income: US$23,576 (
PPP, 2006)
*Population below poverty line: 17.2% (2006)
*Regional quality of life index: 73.29, medium, 30 out of 52 (2005)
*
Human Development Index
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: 0.679, 171 out of 341 (2003)
Administration
As a commune, La Pintana 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 2012-2016 alcalde is Jaime Pavez Moreno (
PPD).
The communal council has the following members:
* Patricia Pavez Moreno (
PPD)
* Claudia Pizarro Peña (
DC)
* Marcelo Sandoval Tillería (
PPD)
* Wilson Navarrete Rubio (
PPD)
* Luis Huneeus Madge (
RN)
* Luis Ayala Pastén (
PC)
* Abigail Acosta Soto (
UDI)
* Manuel Pavez Rubio (
PS)
Within the
electoral divisions of Chile, La Pintana is represented in the
Chamber of Deputies by Osvaldo Andrade (
PS) and Leopoldo Pérez (
RN) as part of the 29th electoral district, (together with
Puente Alto,
Pirque
Pirque () is a commune of Chile in Cordillera Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region; it is located 2.8 kilometers southeast of Puente Alto and 21.3 kilometers south-southeast of the center of Santiago. It is situated at the base of the Cajón de ...
and
San José de Maipo
San José de Maipo is the name of a commune in Chile and the city within it, located in the Cajón del Maipo, in Cordillera Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, some 48 kilometers south-east of capital Santiago, bordered on the east by Argenti ...
). 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
Juan Pablo Longueira Montes (born August 12, 1958) is a Chilean right-wing politician and industrial civil engineer who served as Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism of Chile from 2011 to 2013. He was a founding member of the Independent ...
(
UDI) as part of the 8th senatorial constituency (Santiago-East).
See also
*
Bajos de Mena
References
External links
*
Municipality of La Pintana
{{Communes in Santiago Metropolitan Region
Populated places in Santiago Province, Chile
Communes of Chile
Geography of Santiago, Chile