Huechuraba
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Coordinates: 33 ° 22 ′ S , 70 ° 38 ′ W Huechuraba on the map of Chile
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| Country | Chile | |
| province | Santiago | |
| City foundation | March 1946 | |
| Residents | 74,070 (2002) | |
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| surface | 44.8 | |
| Post Code | 8580000 | |
| prefix | 56 | |
| Time zone | UTC −4 | |
| City Presidency | María Carolina Plaza Guzmán | |
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Huechuraba is a municipality in Chile . It belongs to Greater Santiago and is on the northern outskirts of the city. It has about 74,000 inhabitants.
As early as the 16th century, the area, whose translation from the Mapuche language means "birthplace of clay", was given to the conquistador Pedro de Valdivia . His lover Inés de Suárez had a chapel built here in honor of the Virgin of Montserrat . The north of Santiago was urbanized in the late 19th century, and the population grew rapidly in the middle of the 20th century.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Instituto Nacional de Estadistica http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/censos_poblacion_vivienda/censo2002/mapa_interactivo/metropolitana.swf (accessed on November 25, 2012)