Illapel
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Illapel () is a Chilean city, which is the capital of the Choapa Province, Coquimbo Region. It lies along the Illapel River and marks the country's narrowest point along a parallel (94 km). It is located to the east of Los Vilos.
Key facts
- Settlement.official_name
- Illapel
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City and Commune
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- Illapel.JPG
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- Bandera Illapel.png
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
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- 1752
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- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2629.1
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 388
- Settlement.population_total
- 30074
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2012 Census
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- auto
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Illapelino
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- Urban
- Settlement.population_blank1
- 21826
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- Rural
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- Location of Illapel commune in the Coquimbo Region
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- Chile
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- Earthquake of September 16, 2015
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Illapel () is a Chilean city, which is the capital of the Choapa Province, Coquimbo Region. It lies along the Illapel River and marks the country's narrowest point along a parallel (94 km). It is located to the east of Los Vilos.
==Administration== As a commune, Illapel is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008–2012 alcalde was Denis Cortés Vargas (IND/JPM).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Illapel” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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