Araucanía Region

The **IX Araucanía Region** () is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. Its capital and largest city is Temuco.

The _Auracanía_ means "place where the _Araucanians_ live". Araucanian () was the name given by the Spanish to the Mapuche people that live in the region.

## Geography

The Araucanía region has an area of .

It borders the Bío Bío region (Bío Bío and Arauco provinces), to the north, Argentina to the east, the Los Ríos region to the south and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

The two main rivers in the region are the Imperial and the Toltén rivers.

The highest mountain in the region is the _Lanín_ volcano (), , on the border with Argentina (Neuquén Province); it is .

## Population

The Auracanía had a population of 869,535 inhabitants (2002 census) and its population density was .

The largest city in the region is its capital, Temuco, with 227,086 inhabitants (2002 census). The other provincial capital, Angol had 43,801 inhabitants.

## Administration

The Auracanía region is further subdivided into two provinces: Cautín and Malleco.

|Province|Capital|Code|Comuna|Area <small>(km²)</small>|Population <small>(2002)</small>|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="21" valign="top"|Cautín (091)|rowspan="21" valign="top"|Temuco|09101|**17** Temuco|align="right"|464.0|align="right"|245,347|
|09102|**1** Carahue|align="right"|1,340.6|align="right"|25,696|||||
|09103|**3** Cunco|align="right"|1,906.5|align="right"|18,703|||||
|09104|**4** Curarrehue|align="right"|1,170.7|align="right"|6,784|||||
|09105|**5** Freire|align="right"|935.2|align="right"|25.514|||||
|09106|**6** Galvarino|align="right"|568.2|align="right"|12,596|||||
|09107|**7** Gorbea|align="right"|694.5|align="right"|15,222|||||
|09108|**8** Lautaro|align="right"|901.1|align="right"|32,218|||||
|09109|**9** Loncoche|align="right"|976.8|align="right"|23,037|||||
|09110|**10** Melipeuco|align="right"|1,107.3|align="right"|5,628|||||
|09111|**11** Nueva Imperial|align="right"|732.5|align="right"|29,994|||||
|09112|**12** Padre Las Casas|align="right"|400.7|align="right"|58,795|||||
|09113|**13** Perquenco|align="right"|330.7|align="right"|6,450|||||
|09114|**14** Pitrufquén|align="right"|580.7|align="right"|21,988|||||
|09115|**15** Pucón|align="right"|1,248.5|align="right"|21,107|||||
|09116|**16** Saavedra|align="right"|400.8|align="right"|14,034|||||
|09117|**18** Teodoro Schmidt|align="right"|649.9|align="right"|15,504|||||
|09118|**19** Toltén|align="right"|860.4|align="right"|11,216|||||
|09119|**20** Vilcún|align="right"|1,420.9|align="right"|22,491|||||
|09120|**21** Villarrica|align="right"|1,291.1|align="right"|45,531|||||
|09121|**2** Cholchol|align="right"|427.9|align="right"|10,065|||||
|colspan=4 align="right"|**Total of Cautín province**|align="right"|18,409.0|align="right"|667,920|||||
|rowspan="12" valign="top"|Malleco (092)|rowspan="12" valign="top"|Angol|||||||
|09201|**22** Angol|align="right"|1,194.4|align="right"|48,996|||||
|09202|**23** Collipulli|align="right"|1,295.9|align="right"|22,354|||||
|09203|**24** Curacautín|align="right"|1,664.0|align="right"|16,970|||||
|09204|**25** Ercilla|align="right"|499.7|align="right"|9,041|||||
|09205|**26** Lonquimay|align="right"|3,914.2|align="right"|10,237|||||
|09206|**27** Los Sauces|align="right"|849.8|align="right"|7,581|||||
|09207|**28** Lumaco|align="right"|1,119.0|align="right"|11,405|||||
|09208|**29** Purén|align="right"|464.9|align="right"|12,868|||||
|09209|**30** Renaico|align="right"|267.4|align="right"|9,128|||||
|09210|**31** Traiguén|align="right"|908.0|align="right"|19,534|||||
|09211|**32** Victoria|align="right"|1,256.0|align="right"|33,501|||||
|colspan=4 align="right"|**Total of Malleco province**|align="right"|13,433.3|align="right"|201,615|||||
|colspan=4|**Total of the region**|align="right"|**31,842.3**|align="right"|**869,535**|||||

## Related pages

- Regions of Chile

## Other websites

- Territorial division of Chile
- Gobierno Regional de la Araucanía  Official website

## Infobox (settlement)

- **official name**: Araucanía Region
- **native name**:

- **native name lang**: es
- **settlement type**: Regions of Chile, Region of Chile
- **seat type**: Capital
- **seat**: Temuco
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **parts type**: Provinces of Chile, Provinces
- **parts**: Malleco Province, Malleco
Cautín Province, Cautín
- **leader title**: Intendant
- **leader name**: Víctor Manoli
- **leader party**: National Renewal (Chile), RN
- **image skyline**: Looking out over Lago Conguillio.jpg
- **image caption**: Conguillío National Park
- **image flag**: Flag of La Araucanía Region.svg
- **flag size**: 120px
- **flag alt**: Flag of Araucanía Region
- **image shield**: Coat of Arms of La Araucanía Region.svg
- **shield size**: 75px
- **shield alt**: Coat of arms of Araucanía Region
- **image map**: Araucania in Chile 2018.svg
- **mapsize**: 250px
- **map caption**: Map of Araucanía Region
- **area total km2**: 31842.3
- **area rank**: 8
- **elevation max m**: 3125
- **elevation min m**: 0
- **population total**: 938626
- **population as of**: 2017 census
- **population rank**: 5
- **population density km2**: auto
- **blank name sec1**: Human Development Index, HDI (2019)
- **blank info sec1**: 0.786

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