Contulmo

Contulmo
Coordinates: 38 ° 1 ′ S , 73 ° 14 ′ W Contulmo on the map of Chile	Contulmo
	Contulmo
Basic data
Country	Chile
region	VIII Región del Biobío
City foundation	1884
Residents	5581
	City insignia
Detailed data
surface	962 km 2
Population density	6.07 inhabitants / km 2
height	146 m
Post Code	4400000
prefix	+56
Time zone	UTC UTC-4
City Presidency	Mauricio Lebrecht Sperberg ; (since 2016)
Website	www.contulmo.cl
	Source: Library of the National Congress (2015).
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Contulmo is a municipality in the South American Andean state of Chile . In the Mapudungun language, the name means “place of passage” and is located in the province of Arauco in the Región del Bío-Bío in the south of the country .

history

Contulmo Town Hall .

The history of the Contulmo community is related to the process of German colonization promoted by the government of Chile in the late nineteenth century. At the beginning of 1884 the city of "San Luis de Contulmo" was founded by 48 families from Germany, Protestant religion, newly arrived in South America. This was a difficult task as the area was virtually unexplored in some areas, with swamps and dense vegetation around Lake Lanalhue .

The colonists, with the support of the Chilean government as well as the German, began to work in agriculture and initiated the urban development of the community. The village was developed in the middle of a valley in the coastal mountains ( called Nahuelbuta by the Mapuche ). The architecture can be seen influence of German colonial architecture in the buildings, mostly constructed of wood . In addition, families with the surnames Sperberg , Schulz , Pfaff , Ewert , Grollmus , Müller , Iost , Schulmeyer etc. can be found in the city , signs of German ancestry.

The German school , the municipality's first educational institution, was founded in 1893 and closed after a fire at the end of the 20th century.

Demographics

The demography of Contulmos is quantitatively the smallest amount in the province of Arauco . In the ethnic sense, it consists of three main groups: the descendants of German settlers , the Chileans (Spanish and mestizo ), and the Mapuche ( indigenous people ).

Web links

Official website
Population figures on Ine.cl

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Municipal statistics Contulmo 2015 (accessed May 22, 2017).
↑ An ox cart, 23 kilos of nails and a lot of work In: Cóndor (newspaper) , March 28, 2014, accessed on June 8, 2017.
↑ Los colonos y la escuela en la Araucanía: Los inmigrantes europeos y el surgimiento de la educación privada y laica protestante en la Región de la Araucanía (1887-1915) (in Spanish) In: Universum Talca , 2008, accessed October 11 2018.

[stat-1] Municipal statistics Contulmo 2015 (accessed May 22, 2017).

[2] An ox cart, 23 kilos of nails and a lot of work In: Cóndor (newspaper) , March 28, 2014, accessed on June 8, 2017.

[3] Los colonos y la escuela en la Araucanía: Los inmigrantes europeos y el surgimiento de la educación privada y laica protestante en la Región de la Araucanía (1887-1915) (in Spanish) In: Universum Talca , 2008, accessed October 11 2018.