Chacabuco Partido is a partido in the northern part of

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. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 45,000 inhabitants in an area of , and its capital city is

Chacabuco Chacabuco is one of the many abandoned nitrate or "saltpeter" towns ("oficinas salitreras" in Spanish) in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile. Other nitrate towns of the Atacama Desert include Humberstone and Santa Laura Saltpeter Works. Unlik ...

, which is from

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Economy

The economy of Chacabuco is dominated by agriculture. The mainstays of agricultural production in the district are

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and

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. There are also a lot of cattle farms in the area, as well as secondary agricultural industries such as windmill and silo maintenance, building and carpentry. The region is also home to a chemical plant.

Settlements

, 34,958 inhabitants *

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, 1,316 inhabitants * Coliqueo y Membrillar * Cucha Cucha *

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* Ingeniero Silveyra * O'Higgins, 1,347 inhabitants * Los Ángeles, 124 inhabitants * Rawson, 1,732 inhabitants * San Patricio

External links

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El Urbano de Chacabuco
1865 establishments in Argentina Partidos of Buenos Aires Province {{BuenosAiresAR-geo-stub