Ñuble Province (1974–2018)

Ñuble Provincia Provincia de Ñuble
Province
Seal
Location in the Bío Bío Region
Ñuble Provincia Location in Chile
Coordinates: 36°37′00″S 71°57′00″W
Country	Chile
Region	Bío Bío
Capital	Chillán
Communes	List of 21: Bulnes Cobquecura Coelemu Coihueco Chillán Chillán Viejo El Carmen Ninhue Ñiquén Pemuco Pinto Portezuelo Quillón Quirihue Ránquil San Carlos San Fabián San Ignacio San Nicolás Treguaco Yungay
Government
• Type	Provincial
• Governor	Paola Becker Villa (RN)
Area [1]
• Total	13,178.5 km^2 (5,088.2 sq mi)
Population  (2012 Census)[1]
• Total	460,113
• Density	35/km^2 (90/sq mi)
• Urban	285,108
• Rural	152,995
Sex [1]
• Men	217,024
• Women	221,079
Time zone	UTC-4 (CLT[2])
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (CLST[3])
Area code	56 + 42
Website	Government of Ñuble

The Ñuble Province (Spanish: Provincia de Ñuble) was one of the provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío (VIII). The provincial capital was the city of Chillán.

It was the second province in area in the Bío Bío region, after the Bío Bío province, and the second with more people living in it, after the Concepción province.

The province was created in 1974, as the historical province of Ñuble was supressed by the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In 2018 the province was converted in the Ñuble Region.

Geography

The Ñuble province is in the northern part of the Bío Bío region with an area of 13,178.5 sq mi (34,132 km²).^[4] The capital, Chillán, is at about 400 km (250 mi) from Santiago, the national capital.

Ñuble is bordered to the north by the Maule region (Cauquenes and Linares provinces), to the east by Argentina, to the south by the Bío Bío province and to the west by the Concepción province and the Pacific Ocean.

Administration

As a province, Ñuble was a second-level administrative division, consisting of 21 communes (comunas). The city of Chillán served as the provincial capital. The province was administered by a governor.

Ñuble province

Code	Comuna	Capital	Area[4] (km²)	Population[4] (2002)	Density
08401	35 Chillán	Chillán	511.2	161,953	316.8
08402	34 Bulnes	Bulnes	425.4	20,595	48.4
08403	37 Cobquecura	Cobquecura	570.3	5,687	10.0
08404	38 Coelemu	Coelemu	342.3	16,082	47.0
08405	39 Coihueco	Coihueco	1,776.6	23,583	13.3
08406	36 Chillán Viejo	Chillán Viejo	291.8	22,084	75.7
08407	40 El Carmen	El Carmen	664.3	12,845	19.3
08408	41 Ninhue	Ninhue	401.2	5,738	14.3
08409	42 Ñiquén	Ñiquén	493.1	11,421	23.2
08410	43 Pemuco	Pemuco	562.7	8,821	15.7
08411	44 Pinto	Pinto	1,164.0	9,875	8.5
08412	45 Portezuelo	Portezuelo	282.3	5,470	19.4
08413	46 Quillón	Quillón	423.0	15,146	35.8
08414	47 Quirihue	Quirihue	589.0	11,429	19.4
08415	48 Ránquil	Ránquil	248.3	5,683	22.9
08416	49 San Carlos	San Carlos	874.0	50,088	57.3
08417	50 San Fabián	San Fabián	1,568.3	3,646	2.3
08418	51 San Ignacio	San Ignacio	363.6	16,106	44.3
08419	52 San Nicolás	San Nicolás	490.5	9,741	19.9
08420	53 Treguaco	Treguaco	313.1	5,296	16.9
08421	54 Yungay	Yungay	823.5	16,814	20.4
Total of the Ñuble province			13,178.5	438,103	33.2

Related pages

• Provinces of Chile

References

1. "Territorial division of Chile" (PDF) (in Spanish). National Statistics Institute. 2007. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
2. "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
3. "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
4. "Región del Bío-Bío" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2017.

Other websites

• Territorial division of Chile (in Spanish)
• Gobierno Regional del Bío Bío Official website (in Spanish)
• Province of Ñuble website Archived 2014-03-29 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)