Renca is a commune of

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located in Santiago Province,

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. It was founded on 6 May 1894.

Demographics

According to the 2002

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

of the National Statistics Institute, Renca spans an area of and has 133,500 inhabitants, and the commune is an entirely

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. The population grew by 3.5% (4,500 people) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. The 2006 projected population was 134,690.Sistema de Información Regional
Ministry of Planning of Chile.

Statistics

*Average annual household income: US$17,278 ( PPP, 2006) *Population below poverty line: 19.2% (2006) *Regional quality of life index: 63.39, low, 49 out of 52 (2005) *

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: 0.709, 112 out of 341 (2003)Las Trayectorias del Desarrollo Humano en las Comunas de Chile (1994-2003)
."

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, ''Gobierno de Chile, Mideplán''. Accessed 31 July 2023.

Administration

As a commune, Renca is a third-level

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administered by a

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, headed by an

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who is directly elected every four years. The 2024-2028 mayor is Claudio Castro (Ind). The communal council has the following members: * Ishkra Wladimir Calderón Soto ( PCCh) * César Demetrio Amestica Alarcón ( FA) * Camila Inés Avilés Barraza ( DEM) * Diego Ignacio Fuentes Lira (Ind/ PR) * Claudio Christian Sepúlveda Ormazabal ( FA) * Ana Paz Casimino Salinas ( PCCh) * Ismael Antonio Araya Araya (Ind/ PR) * Cecilia del Pilar López Contreras ( PS) Within the

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, Renca is represented in the

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by Karla Rubilar ( RN) and María Antonieta Saa ( PPD) as part of the 17th electoral district, (together with

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and Huechuraba). The commune is represented in the

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

References

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Municipality of Renca
{{Authority control Populated places in Santiago Province, Chile Communes of Chile Geography of Santiago, Chile Populated places established in 1894 1894 establishments in Chile