Colchagua Province

The **Colchagua Province** () is one of three provinces of the central Chilean region of Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins (VI).

Its capital is the city of San Fernando.

## Geography

The Colchagua province has an area of , the second largest and the most southern province of the O'Higgins region.

Colchagua is a landlocked province (it does not border the ocean) and is bordered to the north by the Cachapoal province, to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Curicó province (Maule region) and to the west by the Cardenal Caro province.

The Tinguiririca volcano is in this province near the border with Argentina, in the Andes. It was near this volcano that the Uruguayan Air Force Flight 57 crashed in 1972 with its survivors lost for seventy-two days.

## Population

The people from the province are called _Colchagüino_ (women: _Colchagüina_).

(last national census), there were 196,566 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The largest city of the province is San Fernando, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 49,519 inhabitants.

## Administration

As a province, Cachapoal is a second-level administrative division, consisting of 10 communes (_comunas_). The city of San Fernando serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.
|colspan="2"|Colchagua province||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|06301|**32** San Fernando|San Fernando|align="right"|2,441.3|align="right"|63,732|align="right"||
|06302|**24** Chépica|Chépica|align="right"|503.4|align="right"|13,857|align="right"||
|06303|**25** Chimbarongo|Chimbarongo|align="right"|497.9|align="right"|32,316|align="right"||
|06304|**26** Lolol|Lolol|align="right"|596.9|align="right"|6,191|align="right"||
|06305|**27** Nancagua|Nancagua|align="right"|111.3|align="right"|15,634|align="right"||
|06306|**28** Palmilla|Palmilla|align="right"|237.3|align="right"|11,200|align="right"||
|06307|**29** Peralillo|Peralillo|align="right"|282.6|align="right"|9,729|align="right"||
|06308|**30** Placilla|Placilla|align="right"|146.9|align="right"|8,078|align="right"||
|06309|**31** Pumanque|Pumanque|align="right"|440.9|align="right"|3,442|align="right"||
|06310|**33** Santa Cruz|Santa Cruz|align="right"|419.5|align="right"|32,387|align="right"||
|colspan="3"|**Total of the Colchagua province**|**5,678.0**|**196,566**|****|}||||

## Related pages

- Provinces of Chile

## Other websites

- Territorial division of Chile
- Gobierno Regional de O'Higgins  Official website
- Province of Colchagua website

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Colchagua
- **native name**: Provincia de Colchagua
- **native name lang**: es
- **settlement type**: Provinces of Chile, Province of Chile
- **image skyline**: Gobernación Provincial de Colchagua (Ex Intendencia), 2005.jpg
- **image alt**: Government of Colchagua's headquarters
- **image caption**: Government of Colchagua's headquarters
- **image seal**: Logo de la Gobernación de Colchagua.svg
- **image map**: Provincia de Colchagua.svg
- **mapsize**: 175px
- **map alt**: Location in the O'Higgins Region
- **map caption**: Colchagua, in red, in the O'Higgins Region
- **pushpin map**: Chile
- **pushpin map narrow**: yes
- **pushpin label position**: bottom
- **pushpin map caption**: Location in Chile
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **subdivision type1**: Regions of Chile, Region
- **subdivision name1**: O'Higgins Region, O'Higgins
- **parts type**: Communes of Chile, Comunas
- **parts style**: para
- **parts**: #Administration, 10 (See list)
- **seat type**: Capital city, Capital
- **seat**: San Fernando, Chile, San Fernando
- **government type**: Province, Provincial
- **leader title**: Governor
- **leader name**: Carolina Cucumides Calderón
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 5678.0
- **population total**: 196566
- **population as of**: 2002 Census
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone**: Time in Chile, CLT
- **utc offset**: -4
- **timezone dst**: Time in Chile, CLST
- **utc offset dst**: -3
- **website**: [http://www.gobernacioncolchagua.gov.cl/ Official website]