La Florida, Chile
La Florida (Spaingie pronunciation: [la floˈɾiða], Spaingie for "the flouery") is a suburban commune o Chile locatit in the Sooth East o Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is a residential aurie an its inhabitants are maistly members o a new middle an upper-middle cless. It ranks nummer 12 oot o 346 amang Chilean communes in terms o Human Development Index.[6] Its mayor is Rodolfo Carter (UDI)
La Florida | |
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 La Florida municipality premises | |
  La Florida Location in Chile | |
| Coordinates (city): 33°32′S 70°35′W / 33.533°S 70.583°WCoordinates: 33°32′S 70°35′W / 33.533°S 70.583°W | |
| Kintra | Chile |
| Region | Santiago Metro. |
| Province | Santiago |
| Foondit | 28 November 1899 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Municipality |
| • Alcalde | Rodolfo Carter (UDI) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 70.8 km2 (27.3 sq mi) |
| Population (2002 Census)[3] | |
| • Total | 365,674 |
| • Density | 5,200/km2 (13,000/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 365563 |
| • Landwart | 111 |
| Sex | |
| • Men | 176,245 |
| • Women | 189,429 |
| Time zone | UTC-4 (CLT[4]) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-3 (CLST[5]) |
| Area code(s) | 56 + |
| Website | Municipality o La Florida |
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Demographics
eeditAccordin tae the 2002 census o the Naitional Statistics Institute, La Florida spans an aurie o 70.8 km2 (27 sq mi) an haes 365,674 inhabitants (176,245 men an 189,429 weemen). O these, 365,563 (100%) livit in urban auries an 111 (0%) in landwart auries. It currently haes amaist 400,000 inhabitants, which maks it the third maist populous commune in Chile.
Stats
eedit- Population belaw poverty line: 9.6% (2006)[7]
- Regional quality o life index: 80.21, heich, 13 oot o 52 (2005)[citation needit]
- Human Development Index: 0.773, 12 oot o 346 (2005)[6]
Administration
eeditAs a commune, La Florida is a third-level admeenistrative diveesion o Chile admeenistered bi a municipal cooncil, heidit bi a alcalde who is directly electit ivery fower year. The 2012-2016 alcalde is Rodolfo Carter Fernández (UDI). The communal cooncil haes the follaein members:
- Oscar Aguilera López (UDI)
- Eulogia Lavín Infante (UDI)
- Marcelo Zunino Poblete (RN)
- Orlando Vidal Duarte (RN)
- José Luis Alegría Tobar (IND)
- Marco Espinoza Cartagena (DC)
- Nicanor Herrera Quiroga (PS)
- Reinaldo Rosales Méndez (PPD)
- David Peralta Castro (PC)
- Claudio Arredondo Medina (IND)
The municipal cooncil is componit bi five members o Chile Vamos (centre-right coalition) an five members o the Nueva Mayoría (centre-left coalition).
Athin the electoral diveesions o Chile, La Florida is representit in the Chamber o Deputies bi Gustavo Hasbún (UDI) and Camila Vallejo-Dowling (PC) as pairt o the 26t Destrict, which consists entirely o the La Florida commune. It is representit in the Senate bi Manuel José Ossandón Irarrázabal (RN) an Carlos Montes Cisternas (PS) as pairt o the 8t Senatorial Constituency (East Santiago).
Eddication
eeditPreviously the aurie haed a German schuil, Deutsche Marienschule Santiago-La Florida.[8]
References
eedit- ↑ "Asociación Chilena de Municipalidades" (in Spainish). Archived frae the original on 15 Apryle 2019. Retrieved 27 Januar 2011.
- ↑ "Municipality of La Florida" (in Spainish). Archived frae the original on 15 Apryle 2019. Retrieved 27 Januar 2011.
- ↑ a b c "National Statistics Institute" (in Spainish). Retrieved 13 December 2010.
- ↑ "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived frae the original on 13 Julie 2010. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ↑ "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived frae the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 13 September 2010.
- ↑ a b es:Anexo:Comunas de Chile
- ↑ "Poverty in the Santiago Metropolitan Region" (PDF). Ministry of Planning of Chile (in Spainish). Archived (PDF) frae the original on 24 August 2007. Retrieved 31 Mey 2016.
- ↑ "Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672" (). Bundestag (West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 21/51.
Freemit airtins
eedit- (in Spaingie) Municipality o La Florida Archived 2019-04-15 at the Wayback Machine