Valparaíso Region

The **Valparaiso Region** () is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

The capital of the region is the city of Valparaiso, an important Chilean seaport. Other important cities are Viña del Mar, Quillota, Quilpué and Villa Alemana.

## History

Valparaíso was made a province in 1842. In January 1928, Valparaíso was made part of the new province of _Aconcagua_ but in 1936 was made again a province. In 1974, with the creation of the Regions of Chile, Valparaíso became one of the Chilean regions.

## Geography

The Valparaíso region borders the Coquimbo region to the north, Argentina and Santiago Metropolitan Region on the east, the Santiago Metropolitan Region region on the south, the O'Higgins region on the southwestern and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

The three main rivers are:
- Petorca,  long.
- La Ligua,  long.
- Aconcagua,  long.

## Population

, there were (estimated) 1,825,757 persons living in the region, for a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The largest city in the region is Viña del Mar, with 286, 931 inhabitants (2002 census). The capital of the region, Valparaíso, had in 2002 263,499 inhabitants.

## Administration

The Valparaíso region is divided in eight provinces:

|Provinces|Capital|Code|Comunas|Area <small>(km²)</small>|Population <small>(2002)</small>|Density||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=7 valign="top"|Valparaíso (051)|rowspan=7 valign="top"|Valparaíso|05101|Valparaíso|align="right"|401.6|align="right"|275,982|align="right"||
|align="left"|05102|align="left"|Casablanca|952.5|21,874|||||||
|align="left"|05103|align="left"|Concón|76.0|32,273|||||||
|align="left"|05104|align="left"|Juan Fernández|147.5|633|||||||
|align="left"|05105|align="left"|Puchuncaví|299.9|12,954|||||||
|align="left"|05107|align="left"|Quintero|147.5|21,174|||||||
|align="left"|05109|align="left"|Viña del Mar|121.6|286,931|||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the Valparaíso province**|2,146.6|651,821|||||||||
|Isla de Pascua (052)|Hanga Roa|05201|Isla de Pascua||align="right"|3,791||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the Isla de Pascua province**|163.6|3,791|align="right"||||||||
|rowspan=4 valign="top"|Los Andes (053)|rowspan=4 valign="top"|Los Andes|05301|Los Andes|align="right"|1,248.3|align="right"|60,198|align="right"||
|align="left"|05302|align="left"|Calle Larga|321.7|10,393|||||||
|align="left"|05303|align="left"|Rinconada|122.5|6,692|||||||
|align="left"|05304|align="left"|San Esteban|1,361.6|14,400|||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the Los Andes province**|3,054.1|91,683|||||||||
|rowspan=5 valign="top"|Petorca (054)|rowspan=5 valign="top"|La Ligua|05401|La Ligua|align="right"|1,163.4|align="right"|31,987|align="right"||
|align="left"|05402|align="left"|Cabildo|1,455.3|18,916|||||||
|align="left"|05403|align="left"|Papudo|165.6|4,608|||||||
|align="left"|05404|align="left"|Petorca|1,516.6|9,440|align="right"||||||
|align="left"|05405|align="left"|Zapallar|288.0|5,659|||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the Petorca province**|4,588.9|70,610|||||||||
|rowspan=5 valign="top"|Quillota (055)|rowspan=5 valign="top"|Quillota|05501|Quillota|align="right"|302.0|align="right"|75,916|align="right"||
|align="left"|05502|align="left"|La Calera|60.5|49,503|||||||
|align="left"|05503|align="left"|Hijuelas|267.2|16,014|||||||
|align="left"|05504|align="left"|La Cruz|78.2|12,851|||||||
|align="left"|05506|align="left"|Nogales|405.2|21,633|||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the Quillota province**|1,113.1|175,917|||||||||
|rowspan=6 valign="top"|San Antonio (056)|rowspan=6 valign="top"|San Antonio|05601|San Antonio|align="right"|404.5|align="right"|87,205|align="right"||
|align="left"|05602|align="left"|Algarrobo|175.6|8,601|||||||
|align="left"|05603|align="left"|Cartagena|245.9|16,875|||||||
|align="left"|05604|align="left"|El Quisco|50.7|9,467|||||||
|align="left"|05605|align="left"|El Tabo|98.8|7,028|||||||
|align="left"|05606|align="left"|Santo Domingo|536.1|7,418|||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the San Antonio province**|1,511.6|136,594|||||||||
|rowspan=6 valign="top"|San Felipe de Aconcagua (057)|rowspan=6 valign="top"|San Felipe|05701|San Felipe|align="right"|185.9|align="right"|64,126|align="right"||
|align="left"|05702|align="left"|Catemu|361.6|12,112|||||||
|align="left"|05703|align="left"|Llaillay|349.1|21,644|||||||
|align="left"|05704|align="left"|Panquehue|121.9|6,567|||||||
|align="left"|05705|align="left"|Putaendo|1,474.4|14,649|||||||
|align="left"|05706|align="left"|Santa María|166.3|12,813|||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the San Felipe province**|2,659.2|131,911|||||||||
|rowspan=4 valign="top"|Marga Marga (058)|rowspan=4 valign="top"|Quilpué|05801|Quilpué|align="right"|536.9|align="right"|128,578|align="right"||
|align="left"|05802|align="left"|Limache|293.8|39,219|||||||
|align="left"|05803|align="left"|Olmué|231.8|14,105|align="right"||||||
|align="left"|05804|align="left"|Villa Alemana|96.5|95,623|||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the Marga Marga province**|1,159.0|277,525|||||||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the region**|**16,396.1**|**1,539,852**|||||||||

## Related pages

- Regions of Chile

## Other websites

- Territorial division of Chile
- Gobierno Regional de Valparaíso  Official website

## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: Valparaíso Region
- **native name**: Región de Valparaíso
- **native name lang**: es
- **settlement type**: Regions of Chile, Region of Chile
- **seat type**: Capital (political), Capital
- **seat**: Valparaíso
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **parts type**: Provinces of Chile, Provinces
- **parts**: Petorca Province, Petorca, Los Andes Province, Chile, Los Andes, San Felipe de Aconcagua Province, San Felipe de Aconcagua, Quillota Province, Quillota, Marga Marga Province, Quilpué, Valparaíso Province, Valparaíso, San Antonio Province, San Antonio,
- **leader title**: Intendant
- **leader name**: Jorge Martínez Durán
- **leader party**: National Renewal (Chile), RN
- **image skyline**: Cerro Tres Hermanos.jpg
- **image caption**: Nevado Juncal
- **image flag**: Flag of Valparaiso Region, Chile.svg
- **flag size**: 120px
- **flag alt**: Flag of Valparaíso Region
- **image shield**: Coat of arms of Valparaiso Region, Chile.svg
- **shield size**: 75px
- **shield alt**: Coat of Arms of Valparaíso Region
- **image map**: Valparaiso in Chile (+outer islands).svg
- **mapsize**: 250px
- **map caption**: Map of Valparaíso Region
- **area total km2**: 16396.1
- **area rank**: 13
- **elevation min m**: 0
- **population total**: 1790219
- **population as of**: 2017 census
- **population rank**: 2
- **population density km2**: auto
- **blank name sec1**: Human Development Index, HDI (2019)
- **blank info sec1**: 0.867

- **website**: [http://www.gorevalparaiso.cl/ Official website]
- **iso code**: ISO 3166-2:CL, CL-VS