Cachapoal Province ( Spanish : Provincia de Cachapoal ) is one of three provinces of the central Chilean region of O'Higgins (VI). Its capital is the city of Rancagua (pop. 214,344).
7-511: According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute ( INE ), the province spans an area of 7,384.2 km (2,851 sq mi) and had a population of 542,901 inhabitants (271,226 men and 271,675 women), giving it a population density of 73.5/km (190/sq mi). It is the fifth most populated province in the country. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 13.8% (65,871 persons). As
14-545: A province, Cachapoal is a second-level administrative division of Chile. It is governed by the regional delegate of O'Higgins, who is appointed by the president . The province comprises seventeen communes , each governed by a municipality consisting of an elected alcalde and municipal council . Located 85 km (53 mi) south of Santiago , the Cachapoal Valley is a wine-growing area in Cachapoal in
21-748: The O`Higgins Region of central Chile , to the north of the Rapel Valley. It is located between the heights of Paine to the north and Pelequén to the south and between the Andes to the west and the smaller coastal range to the east. The valley takes its name from the Cachapoal River that flows through Rapel Valley along with its tributaries, the Claro and Cortaderal Rivers. All these watercourses flow into Lake Rapel . The climate of
28-653: The Census Act of July 12, 1843. Law No. 187 of September 17, 1847 established the office as a permanent body of the state. By 1853, it was legally required that each section chief of the ministries collect and submit data to the Bureau of Statistics. Subsequently and by various legal modifications, it was called Dirección General de Estadísticas (1927–1953), Servicio Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (1953–1960), Dirección de Estadísticas y Censos (1960–1970). It has called by its current name since 1970, and it has been under
35-683: The coastal range, and there are more Carménère vines. National Statistics Institute (Chile) The National Statistics Institute of Chile (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Chile , INE) is a state-run organization of the Government of Chile , created in the second half of the 19th century and tasked with performing a general census of population and housing, then collecting, producing and publishing official demographic statistics of people in Chile , in addition to other specific tasks entrusted to it by law. Its antecedents lie in
42-573: The initiatives of president Manuel Bulnes and his minister, Manuel Rengifo, to draw up the second population census and obtain statistical data of the country. By Decree No. 18 March 27, 1843, the Office of Statistics was created, Ministry of the Interior to provide knowledge of the departments and provinces. It put the INE in charge of producing the national population census every 10 years, as required by
49-526: The valley is temperate and consistently Mediterranean , sheltered by the coastal range from the cooling influences of the Pacific Ocean . Most of Cachapoal's noteworthy wineries and vineyards are located toward the east of the region, in the foothills of the Andes, away from the warmer valley floor. This is an area for Cabernet Sauvignon vines, whereas closer to the coast the ocean breezes flow through
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