Aysén Province ( Spanish : Provincia de Aysén ) is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Aysen (XI). Its capital is Puerto Aysén .
8-495: The province had a 2002 population of 23,498 according to the census by the National Statistics Institute . Of these, 16,180 (68.9%) lived in urban areas and 13,451 (57.2%) in rural areas . Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population fell by 20.7% ( persons). The census also yielded a surface area of 46,588.8 km (17,988 sq mi), the largest in the region and fifth largest province in
16-574: The 1990s, it was suggested that the name might be derived from an 1831 map made by captain Robert Fitz-Roy, who made an expedition to the coast on board the Beagle with Charles Darwin and labeled the area around modern Aisén province with the words "Ice End." This theory, however, was largely dismissed because the name "Aysen" appears in documents of the explorer Father Garcia, who made an expedition to this region in 1766, more than 60 years prior to
24-469: 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 the initiatives of president Manuel Bulnes and his minister, Manuel Rengifo, to draw up the second population census and obtain statistical data of
32-460: The arrival of the Beagle. Despite this, the Fitz-Roy myth has become popular among the many European tourists who visit Patagonia each year. See Aisén (name) for more information. Many of the region's people are of British and German descent (including Sudeten Germans from present Czech Republic ), although the majority of inhabitants are Chileans of mestizo Spanish origins. The province
40-403: The country, though it is the tenth least populated in the country. As a province, Palena is a second-level administrative division , administered by a presidentially appointed governor. Manuel Ortiz Torres was appointed by president Sebastián Piñera . The province comprises three communes , each governed by a municipality, headed by an alcalde : Aisén , Cisnes , and Guaitecas . During
48-620: 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 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
56-456: 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
64-521: Was recently developed in the early 20th century by Chilean government officials to place thousands of transplanted settlers from the Central Valley . 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
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