Colbún
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Colbún (Mapudungun: "Cleaning of the land") is a Chilean town and commune in Linares Province, Maule Region. The commune has a population of over 17,000 inhabitants and covers an area of , making it the province's largest. Its capital, the town of Colbún, has 3,679 inhabitants (2002 census). It is west of the center of continental Chile.
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- Colbún
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- Town and Commune
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- Map of the Colbún commune in the Maule Region
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- Map of the Colbún commune in the Maule Region
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Colbún (Mapudungun: "Cleaning of the land") is a Chilean town and commune in Linares Province, Maule Region. The commune has a population of over 17,000 inhabitants and covers an area of , making it the province's largest. Its capital, the town of Colbún, has 3,679 inhabitants (2002 census). It is west of the center of continental Chile.
==Demographics== According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Colbún spans an area of and has 17,619 inhabitants (8,943 men and 8,676 women). Of these, 5,152 (29.2%) lived in urban areas and 12,467 (70.8%) in rural areas. The population grew by 3.9% (669 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Colbún” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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