María Pinto is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and

commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...

of the Melipilla Province in central

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 ...

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 ...

Administration

As a commune, María Pinto 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 Cesar Araos Aguirre ( UDI), and his council members are: * Mario Donoso Araya ( PDC) * Elias Jacob Hirmas (IND) * Carlos Acevedo Barrera ( UDI) * Margarita Cofré Olguin ( PDC) * Sonia Vargas Farias ( PPD) * Claudia Atabales Alarcón ( UDI) Within the electoral divisions of Chile, María Pinto is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Denise Pascal ( PS) and Gonzalo Uriarte ( UDI) as part of the 31st electoral district, (together with

Talagante Talagante () is a commune and the capital city of the province of the same name in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. The word ''Talagante'' in Quechua comes from ''talacanta'', meaning "Lazo de Hechicero", which was the proper n ...

, Peñaflor, El Monte, Isla de Maipo,

Melipilla Melipilla (Mapudungun for "four Pillans") is a Chilean commune and capital city of the province of the same name, located in the Santiago Metropolitan Region southwest of the nation's capital. The commune spans an area of . Demographics Acco ...

Curacaví Curacaví () is a city and commune in the Melipilla Province of central Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region. Its climate is temperate Mediterranean with a long dry season, experiencing high temperatures in summer and low temperatures in winter. ...

, Alhué, San Pedro and

Padre Hurtado Padre Hurtado () is a Chilean commune in the Talagante Province, in the Metropolitan Region. Part of the Greater Santiago conurbation and one of the outermost communes of it, the commune is named after Saint Alberto Hurtado, who was popularly k ...

). The commune is represented in the Senate by Guido Girardi Lavín ( PPD) and Jovino Novoa Vásquez (UDI) as part of the 7th senatorial constituency (Santiago-West).

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Municipality of María Pinto
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maria Pinto Communes of Chile Populated places in Melipilla Province