Key facts
- Country
- Chile
- Region
- La Araucanía
- Capital
- Temuco
- Communes
- 21 communes: Temuco Carahue Cholchol Cunco Curarrehue Freire Galvarino Gorbea Lautaro Loncoche Melipeuco Nueva Imperial Padre Las Casas Perquenco Pitrufquén Pucón Saavedra Teodoro Schmidt Toltén Vilcún Villarrica
- Type
- Provincial
- Governor
- Mauricio Ojeda Rebodollo ( EVOP )
- Total
- 18,409.0 km (7,107.8 sq mi)
- Density
- 37.6219/km (97.4403/sq mi)
- Urban
- 449,147
- Rural
- 218,773
- Time zone
- UTC-4 ( CLT )
- Summer dst
- UTC-3 ( CLST )
- Area code
- 56 + 45
- Website
- Government of Cautín
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Encyclopedic overview
Cautín Province (Spanish: Provincia de Cautín) is one of two provinces in the southern Chilean region of La Araucanía (IX), bounded on the north by Arauco and Malleco provinces, on the east by Argentina, on the south by Valdivia Province, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Its population at the 2012 census was of 692,582. The most important communes are Temuco, Villarrica, Padre Las Casas, and Nueva Imperial. Cattle, forestry, and agriculture make up most of Cautin's economy. Its climate is humid, rainy in winter, and generally warm in summer.
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