San Antonio Province

**San Antonio Province** () is one of eight provinces of the central Chilean region of Valparaíso (V). The port city of San Antonio is the capital of the province.

## Geography

The San Antonio province has an area of , the third smallest province in the Valparaíso region; only the Quillota and Marga Marga provinces are smaller.

The San Antonio province is on the coast along the Pacific Ocean and is bordered on the north by the Casablanca commune (Valparaíso province), on the east by the Melipilla commune (Santiago Metropolitan region), to the south with the Navidad commune (Cardenal Caro province, O'Higgins region), and to the west by the Pacific Ocean.

The San Antonio valley is a small region where wine is produced. It is very close to the sea around the city of San Antonio, at only  west of Santiago.

## Population

(last national census), there were 136,594 people living in the province, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The largest city of the province is San Antonio, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 87,205 inhabitants.

## Administration

As a province, San Antonio is a second-level administrative division, consisting of six communes (_comunas_). The city of San Antonio serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

|Code|Comuna|Capital|Area <small>(km²)</small>|Population <small>(2002)</small>|Density||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|05601|San Felipe|San Felipe|align="right"|404.5|align="right"|87,205|align="right"||
|05602|Algarrobo|Algarrobo|align="right"|175.6|align="right"|8,601|align="right"||
|05603|Cartagena|Cartagena|align="right"|245.9|align="right"|16,875|align="right"||
|05604|El Quisco|El Quisco|align="right"|50.7|align="right"|9,467|align="right"||
|05605|El Tabo|El Tabo|align="right"|98.8|align="right"|7,028|align="right"|}|
|05606|Santo Domingo|Santo Domingo|align="right"|536.1|align="right"|7,418|align="right"||
|colspan=3 align="right"|**Total of the San Antonio province**|align="right"|**1,511.6**|align="right"|**136,594**|align="right"|****||

## Related pages

- Provinces of Chile

## Other websites

- Territorial division of Chile
- Gobierno Regional de Valparaíso  Official website
- Province of San Antonio website

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: San Antonio
- **native name**: Provincia de San Antonio
- **native name lang**: es
- **settlement type**: Provinces of Chile, Province
- **image skyline**: Gobsantonio.jpg
- **image alt**: Provincial offices building in San Antonio
- **image caption**: Province, Provincial offices building in San Antonio
- **image seal**: Logotipo de la Gobernación de San Antonio.svg
- **image map**: Provincia de San Antonio.svg
- **mapsize**: 150px
- **map alt**: Location in the Valparaíso Region
- **map caption**: San Antonio, in red, in the Valparaíso Region
- **pushpin map**: Chile
- **pushpin map narrow**: yes
- **pushpin mapsize**: 175
- **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**: Valparaíso Region, Valparaíso
- **parts type**: Communes of Chile, Comunas
- **parts style**: para
- **p1**: Algarrobo, Chile, Algarrobo
- **p2**: El Quisco
- **p3**: El Tabo
- **p4**: Cartagena, Chile, Cartagena
- **p5**: San Antonio, Chile, San Antonio
- **p6**: Santo Domingo, Chile, Santo Domingo
- **seat type**: Capital city, Capital
- **seat**: San Antonio, Chile, San Antonio
- **government type**: Province, Provincial
- **leader title**: Governor
- **leader name**: Manuel Alejandro Villatoro Jerez
- **unit pref**: Metric
- **area total km2**: 1511.6
- **population total**: 136594
- **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.gobernacionsanantonio.gov.cl/ Official website]