Antofagasta Province

Province of Antofagasta

Provincia de Antofagasta
Province of Antofagasta Provincia de Antofagasta
Province
	Seal ; Antofagasta province, in red, in the Antofagasta Region Province of Antofagasta Location in Chile
	Coordinates: 24°37′S 69°32′W / 24.617°S 69.533°W
Country	Chile
Region	Antofagasta
Capital	Antofagasta
Comunas	List of 4: Antofagasta; Mejillones; Sierra Gorda; Taltal;
Government
• Type	Provincial
• Governor	Fabiola Rivero Rojas
Area
• Total	67,813.5 km2 (26,182.9 sq mi)
Population (2002 Census)
• Total	318,779
• Density	4.7/km2 (12/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-4 (CLT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (CLST)
Area code	56 + 55
Website	Official website

The Province of Antofagasta (Spanish: Provincia de Antofagasta) is one of three provinces in the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta (II). The capital is the port city of Antofagasta.

Geography

The Antofagasta province has an area of 67,813.5 km² (26,182.9 sq mi).^[2]

The Antofagasta province is bordered on the north by the Tocopilla and El Loa provinces, on the east by Argentina, on the south by the Atacama region (Chañaral province) and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.

Population

As of 2002^[update] (last national census), there were 318,779 people living in the province, giving it a population density of 4.7 inhabitants/km².^[2]

The largest city of the province is Antofagasta, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 285,255 inhabitants.

Administration

As a province, the Antofagasta province is a second-level administrative division, consisting of four communes (comunas). The city of Antofagasta serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

Antofagasta province
Code	Comuna	Capital	Area^[2] (km²)	Population^[2] (2002)
02101	1 Antofagasta	Antofagasta	30,718.1	296,905
02102	2 Mejillones	Mejillones	3,803.9	8,418
02103	3 Sierra Gorda	Sierra Gorda	12,886.4	2,356
02104	4 Taltal	Taltal	20,405.1	11,100
Total of the Antofagasta province			67,813.5	318,779

References

↑ "Conozca a la Gobernadora". Gobernación Provincial de Antofagasta (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2016.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 "Región de Antofagasta" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

Other websites

Territorial division of Chile (in Spanish)
Gobierno Regional de Antofagasta (in Spanish)
Province of Antofagasta website (in Spanish)

[Gobernadora-1] "Conozca a la Gobernadora". Gobernación Provincial de Antofagasta (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2016.

[ineDPA-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 "Región de Antofagasta" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

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