O'Higgins Region
Chile's huaso province, home to El Teniente copper mine and fertile valleys.
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Only the Maule Region has a larger share of Chile's rural inhabitants than the O'Higgins Region.[1] Rancagua, the region's capital, sits 87 km south of Santiago.[1]
Geography and history
In prehistoric times, this Chilean endemic tree had a significantly larger range.[2] The high Andes of the region contain the copper mine of El Teniente.[3] According to the 2024 census, densely populated cities include San Fernando (75,585), Rengo (63,620), and Machalí (60,875).[1] Rancagua, with 257,774 inhabitants, has recently become an outskirt of Santiago.[1]
The region is co-governed by a presidential regional delegate and a popularly-elected governor.[4] During the pre-Quaternary period, much of the O'Higgins Region was blanketed by extensive Nothofagus forests.[5] The endangered Chilean Wine Palm, Jubaea chilensis, has a very limited natural habitat that includes the O'Higgins Region.[2] The Catedral copper mine prospect, situated in a zone of glaciers and rock glaciers, is located 25 km southeast of the El Teniente copper mine.[3]
What the cited sources add
The 1997 "Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary" provides a geographical reference for the region's name.[6][7]
References
- Wikipedia, "O'Higgins Region" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Chile: Proyecciones y Estimaciones de Población. Total País 1950–2050 " Instituto National de Estadísticas (INE) (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "O'Higgins Region" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: C. Michael Hogan (2008) Chilean Wine Palm: Jubaea chilensis, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "O'Higgins Region" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Catedral", ENAMI, 2019; Brenning, "Minería y glaciares rocosos: impactos ambientales, antecedentes políticos y legales, y perspectivas futuras", Revista de Geografía Norte Grande, 2010, p. 143-158 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "O'Higgins Region" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Gobernador Regional" (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "O'Higgins Region" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Thomas T. Veblen, Robert S. Hill and Jennifer Read (1996) The Ecology and Biogeography of Nothofagus Forests, Yale University Press, 403 pages (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Open Library record, ISBN 9780877795469 ("Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary."). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org
- Wikipedia, "O'Higgins Region" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Rupp, "Unconfined Aquifer Permeability near hand-dug Wells in the Coastal and Interior dryland of the Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, Chile", Chilean Journal of Agricultural Research, 2011, p. 267–274; "Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary", Merriam-Webster, 1997, p. 977; Division, "Chile, a country study", The Division, December 1994, p. 299; "Decreto Ley 2339. Otorga denominación a la Región Metropolitana y a las regiones del país, en la forma que indica.", Ley Chile, 10 October 1978 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article O'Higgins Region (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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Sources
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- Wikipedia: O'Higgins Region (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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