Illapel

Illapel is a Chilean city; it is the capital of the Choapa province, Coquimbo region. It is in the most narrow point of the country along a parallel, .

Geography
The commune of Illapel has an area of . It is to the north of Santiago at  and to the northeast of the seaport city of Los Vilos at .

The commune is bordered on the north by the Combarbalá and Monte Patria (a small part) communes, both of the Limarí province, on the east by Argentina, on the south by the Salamanca and Los Vilos communes, and on the west by the Canela commune.


The city of Illapel is along the Illapel river, a tributary of the Choapa river, that is  long.

Population
 (last national census), there were 30,355 people living in the commune, giving it a population density of  inhabitants/km².

The city of Illapel has an urban area of  and a population, in 2002, of 21,826 inhabitants.

Related pages
Communes of Chile
Provinces of Chile

References

Other websites

 Territorial division of Chile 
 Gobierno Regional de Coquimbo Official website 
 Province of Choapa website 

Category:Cities in Chile
Category:Coquimbo Region
Category:1752 establishments
Category:18th-century establishments in the Viceroyalty of Peru