Key facts
- Country
- Chile
- Region
- Arica y Parinacota
- Established
- 26 October 1979
- Capital
- Arica
- Communes
- Arica , Camarones
- Type
- Provincial
- Presidential provincial delegate
- Mirtha Patricia Arancibia Cruz
- Total
- 8,726.4 km (3,369.3 sq mi)
- Density
- 21.371/km (55.349/sq mi)
- Urban
- 175,441
- Rural
- 11,047
- Men
- 92,487
- Women
- 94,001
- Time zone
- UTC-4 ( CLT )
- Summer dst
- UTC-3 ( CLST )
- Area code
- 56 + 58
- Website
- Official website (in Spanish)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- province of Chile
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Arica y Parinacota Region
- Contains
- Camarones
- Capital
- Arica
- Population
- 222619
- Area
- 8726.4
- Elevation
- 3354
- Shares border with
- Tacna
- Official website
- www.gobernacionarica.gov.cl
- Image
- Arica001.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
Arica Province (Spanish: Provincia de Arica) is one of two provinces of Chile's northernmost region, Arica y Parinacota. The province is bordered on the north by the Tacna Province of Peru, on the south by the Tamarugal Province in the Tarapacá Region, on the east the Parinacota Province and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Its capital is the port city of Arica.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Arica Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.