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Curicó Province
Curicó Province () is one of four provinces of the central Chilean region of Maule (VII). Its capital and largest city is Curicó.
The Curicó province has an area of , the third largest province in the Maule region. The provincial capital, Curicó, is about south of Santiago.
The province is bordered to the northwest by the Cardenal Caro province (O'Higgins region), to the north by the Colchagua province (O'Higgins region), to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Talca provinces and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.
(last national census), there were 244,053 people living in the province, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km². The urban population was 157,876 persons ( of the total).
The largest city of the province is Curicó, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 93,447.
As a province, Curicó is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 9 communes ("comunas"). The city of Curicó serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.
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The roots of the conflict can be traced back to World War I, when South Africa invaded and conquered the colony of German South-West Africa on behalf of the British Empire and the other Allies of World War I. In the aftermath of the German defeat, the League of Nations awarded South Africa a mandate to administer the territory until its inhabitants were ready to govern themselves.
Following World War II, South Africa refused to surrender South-West Africa to a proposed United Nations Trusteeship agreement and instead requested the right to annex it as a fifth province. Steps were taken to integrate South-West Africa into South Africa, including giving the local white population the right to elect representatives to the Parliament of South Africa.
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Curicó
Curicó is a Chilean city and commune in the Maule Region, in the Chilean Central Valley. Curicó is the capital city of the province of Curicó.
Curicó means, in Mapudungun, "Land of Black Water".
Curicó was founded on 9 October 1743 by José Manso de Velasco when Chile was a Spanish colony with the name "San José de Buena Vista".
In 1747, the Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas moved the city about to the north, where it is now on the foot of the Buena Vista hill (now called "Cerro Condell"), because the original place was too humid.
Curicó got the title of "city" in 1830. The city was destroyed by an earthquake in 1928 and rebuilt during the following year. It was badly damaged in the earthquake of February 2010.
(last national census), there were 119,585 people living in the commune, giving it a population density of inhabitants/km². The urban population was 100,506 persons ( of the total).
The people from Curicó are called "Curican" (in Spanish: "Curicanos" for men and "Curicanas" for women).
The commune has an area of and the city proper, .
The city of Curicó is at south of Santiago and .
The rivers Guaiquillo and Mataquito are the main rivers that flow through the commune. Most of the territory of the commune is within the central plain ("Valle Central de Chile"). The valley is between low mountains to the west and east.
The commune of Curicó is bordered on the west by Rauco; on the north by Teno; on the east, by Romeral, and on the south, by Molina and Sagrada Familia.
The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Curicó is a "dry-summer subtropical climate" (also known as Mediterranean Climate) and of the subtype "Csb".
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Curicó is . The month with the most precipitation on average is July with of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is January with an average of .
The average temperature for the year in Curicó is . The warmest month, on average, is January with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is July, with an average temperature of .
The city's economy is based mainly on agriculture, because the Mediterranean climate creates comparative advantages with markets such as apples, wines, and cherries.
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