Provinces of Chile

Paraskevas Renesis reports that, in a constitutional reform, a Chilean law was published on 2007-07-30 authorizing a status of territorio especial (special territory) for Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and the Archipiélago Juan Fernández. When the law is implemented, according to La Nación , Easter Island will be administered directly through the Ministry of the Interior, while the other islands will continue to be part of Valparaíso region.

In 2007, two new provinces were created; two new regions were formed by taking provinces from existing regions. The table below shows all of the provinces of Chile as they stand now. I've changed the middle two letters of the HASC code where appropriate to show the new region containing a province.

ProvinceHASCPopulationCapital
AisénCL.AI.AI29,631Puerto Aisén
Antártica ChilenaCL.MA.AC2,392Puerto Williams
AntofagastaCL.AN.AN318,779Antofagasta
AraucoCL.BI.AU157,255Lebu
AricaCL.AP.AR186,488Arica
BiobíoCL.BI.BI353,315Los Angeles
CachapoalCL.LI.CA542,901Rancagua
Capitán PratCL.AI.CP3,837Cochrane
Cardenal CaroCL.LI.CC41,160Pichilemu
CauquenesCL.ML.CQ57,088Cauquenes
CautínCL.AR.CT667,920Temuco
ChacabucoCL.RM.CB132,798Colina
ChañaralCL.AT.CR32,132Chañaral
ChiloéCL.LG.CE154,766Castro
ChoapaCL.CO.CH81,681Illapel
CoihaiqueCL.AI.CI51,103Coihaique
ColchaguaCL.LI.CL196,566San Fernando
ConcepciónCL.BI.CN912,889Concepción
CopiapóCL.AT.CO155,713Copiapó
CordilleraCL.RM.CD522,856Puente Alto
CuricóCL.ML.CU244,053Curicó
El LoaCL.AN.EL143,689Calama
ElquiCL.CO.EQ365,371Coquimbo
General CarreraCL.AI.GC6,921Chile Chico
HuascoCL.AT.HU66,491Vallenar
IquiqueCL.TP.IE216,419Iquique
Isla de PascuaCL.VS.IP3,791Hanga Roa
LimaríCL.CO.LM156,158Ovalle
LinaresCL.ML.LN253,990Linares
LlanquihueCL.LG.LL321,493Puerto Montt
Los AndesCL.VS.LA91,683Los Andes
MagallanesCL.MA.MG121,675Punta Arenas
MaipoCL.RM.MI378,444San Bernardo
MallecoCL.AR.ML201,615Angol
MelipillaCL.RM.ME141,165Melipilla
ÑubleCL.BI.NU438,103Chillán
OsornoCL.LG.OS221,509Osorno
PalenaCL.LG.PL18,971Chaitén
ParinacotaCL.AP.PR3,156Putre
PetorcaCL.VS.PE70,610La Ligua
QuillotaCL.VS.QU229,241Quillota
RancoCL.LR.RA97,153La Unión
San AntonioCL.VS.SA136,594San Antonio
San Felipe de AconcaguaCL.VS.SF131,911San Felipe
SantiagoCL.RM.SG4,668,473Santiago
TalaganteCL.RM.TG217,449Talagante
TalcaCL.ML.TC352,966Talca
TamarugalCL.TP.TM22,531Pozo Almonte
Tierra del FuegoCL.MA.TI6,904Porvenir
TocopillaCL.AN.TO31,516Tocopilla
Última EsperanzaCL.MA.UE19,855Puerto Natales
ValdiviaCL.LR.VD259,243Valdivia
ValparaísoCL.VS.VP876,022Valparaíso

 

Change history:

  1. ~1991: Chile reorganized from 40 provincias (provinces), which were further subdivided into 334 comunas (municipalities), into 51 provinces. Before this change, the provinces in each region were as listed here:
    1. Antofagasta: Antofagasta, El Loa, Tocopilla
    2. Araucanía: Cautín, Malleco
    3. Atacama: Chañaral, Copiapó, Huasco
    4. Aisén: Aisén, Capitán Prat, General Carrera
    5. Bío-Bío: Arauco, Bío-Bío, Concepción, Ñuble
    6. Coquimbo: Choapa, Elqui, Limarí
    7. Libertador: Cachapoal, Colchagua
    8. Los Lagos: Chiloé, Llanquihue, Osorno, Valdivia
    9. Magallanes: Magallanes, Tierra del Fuego, Ultima Esperanza
    10. Maule: Curicó, Linares, Talca
    11. Santiago: Santiago
    12. Tarapacá: Arica, Iquique
    13. Valparaíso: Isla de Pascua, Los Andes, Petorca, Quillota, San Antonio, San Felipe, Valparaíso
  2. 2007-10-02: Los Ríos region formed by taking Valdivia province from Los Lagos. Ranco province formed by taking Futrono, La Unión, Lago Ranco, and Río Bueno municipalities from Valdivia province (former HASC code CL.LL.VV).
  3. 2007-10-08: Arica and Parinacota region formed by taking Arica and Parinacota provinces from Tarapacá. Tamarugal province formed by taking Camiña, Colchane, Huara, Pica, and Pozo Almonte municipalities from Iquique province (former HASC code CL.TA.IQ).
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