San Joaquín (
Spanish
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for
Saint Joachim
Joachim (; ''Yəhōyāqīm'', "he whom Yahweh has set up"; ; ) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Biblical apocrypha ...
) is a
commune
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of
Chile
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located in
Santiago Province,
Santiago Metropolitan Region
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. It is part of
Greater Santiago.
Demographics
According to the 2002
census
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of the
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, San Joaquín spans an area of and has 97,625 inhabitants (46,708 men and 50,917 women), and the commune is an entirely
urban area
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. The population fell by 14.4% (16,392 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.
Its 2006 projected population was 87,035.
[Sistema de Información Regional](_blank)
Ministry of Planning of Chile.
Stats
*Average annual household income: US$19,089 (
PPP, 2006)
*Population below poverty line: 7.4% (2006)
*Regional quality of life index: 76.84, mid-high, 20 out of 52 (2005)
*
Human Development Index
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: 0.719, 92 out of 341 (2003)
Las Trayectorias del Desarrollo Humano en las Comunas de Chile (1994-2003)
." UNDP
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, ''Gobierno de Chile, Mideplán''
Administration
As a commune, San Joaquín 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 Sergio Echeverría García.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 La Granja). 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).
Notable people
*Fabián Orellana
Fabián Ariel Orellana Valenzuela (; born 27 January 1986) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a winger for Club Deportivo Universidad Católica and the Chilean national team.
After starting out at Audax Italiano, he went on to ...
(born 1986), professional footballer playing for SD Eibar
Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (in eu, Eibar Kirol Elkartea) is a professional Spanish football club based in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous Basque Country.
Founded on 30 November 1940, the team currently plays in the Segunda División, the s ...
*Arturo Vidal
Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo (; born 22 May 1987) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo and the Chile national team. His displays during his time at Juventus led him to be n ...
(born 1987), professional footballer playing for Inter Milan
References
External links
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Municipality of San Joaquín
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Populated places in Santiago Province, Chile
Geography of Santiago, Chile
Communes of Chile
1981 establishments in Chile