JoséSantos Arraño Acevedo was a Chilean journalist and historian,who worked in several regional newspapers,including El Rancagüino from Rancagua,La Discusión from Chillán,amid others. He also wrote two books on the history of Pichilemu:Pichilemu y Sus Alrededores Turísticos and Hombres y Cosas de Pichilemu.
Agustín Ross Cultural Centre,previously known as Casino Ross,is the cultural center of the city of Pichilemu in Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region,Chile. It was constructed between 1906 and 1909 at the request of politician Agustín Ross Edwards. The structure of the cultural center is very similar to that of the Grand Trianon in Versailles,France.
Agustín Ross Edwards was a Chilean politician,diplomat,and banker. He was son of David Ross and Carmen Edwards Ossandon;both were of British ancestry. He was married to Susana De Ferari.
The history of Pichilemu began around the 16th century,when Promaucaes inhabited the modern Pichilemu region. According to Chilean historiographer JoséToribio Medina on his book Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu (1908),Spanish conqueror Pedro de Valdivia gave Topocalma encomienda,in which Pichilemu was supposed to be,to Juan Gómez de Almagro,on January 24,1544.
The Mayor of Pichilemu is an elected politician who is the head of the executive branch of government of the commune of Pichilemu,Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region,Chile. The mayor presides over the local city council,composed of six members,and serves as the civic representative of the commune. The mayor is popularly elected in a municipal election,by simple majority. The office is held for a four-year term without term limits.
The coat of arms of Pichilemu is the official heraldic symbol representing the city of Pichilemu,the capital of the Chilean province of Cardenal Caro. It consists of a party per cross referencing the importance of tourism in Pichilemu,and the commune's agricultural,huaso origins. The coat of arms is crested with a "symbolical representation of Pichilemu's past and present:a balustrade fused in a mitre",worn by JoséMaría Caro Rodríguez,the first Cardinal of the Chilean Roman Catholic Church,who was born in the village of San Antonio de Petrel,in Pichilemu.
JoséMaría Caro Martínez was a Chilean politician and civil servant. In May 1894,he was unanimously elected as the first mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,with Pedro Nolasco de Mira and Francisco Reyes made second and third magistrate respectively. Caro Martínez had previously served for several years as administrator or llavero of the San Antonio de Petrel hacienda and,between 1891 and 1892,was the Subdelegate of the 13th Subdelegation of San Fernando Department which comprised the district of Cáhuil.
Pichilemu,sometimes referred to as El Pichilemu or El Pichilemo,was a Pichileminian newspaper published for the first time in 1944 by Carlos Rojas Pavez,municipal secretary and mayor of Pichilemu from 1967 to 1971. Rojas published the newspaper with the collaboration of JoséArraño Acevedo and Miguel Larravide Blanco. It was later published by Washington Saldías González between 1986 and 1990,and then again in 1996 by Carlos Carmona Plá. In 2000,Saldías turned it into an online-only newspaper,named Pichilemu News.
RenéGabriel Maturana Maldonado was a Chilean journalist and the 36th Mayor of Pichilemu,holding the position from his appointment by President Augusto Pinochet Ugarte on 31 August 1984 until his resignation in April 1992.
Francisco Adriano Caro Rodríguez was the eighth mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,Chile,an office which he held between December 1925 and May 1927.
JoséManuel Camilo Silva was the tenth Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,office which he held between May and July 1928.
JoséRamón Araneda y Araneda was a Chilean politician and the 11th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,an office which he held between July 1928 and July 1930.
Pastor Castro Rojas was the 12th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,office which he held between July and November 1930. He left the office because of poor health.
Humberto Llanos Martínez was the 18th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,office which he held for two three-year terms,between December 1935 and May 1941. He took office following the death of the previous mayor,Serafín López Lizana,and was succeeded by Felipe Iturriaga Esquivel.
Armando Caroca Rojas was the 20th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,office which he held between May 1944 and May 1947. He was succeeded by Carlos Echazarreta Larraín. He also was a regidor of Pichilemu for several terms.
Carlos JoséRamón Echazarreta Iñiguez was the 27th and 30th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,office which he held between May 1963 and May 1967,and through the early months of the Augusto Pinochet military regime,between September and November 1973. In 1967 he was succeeded by Carlos Rojas Pavez,and in 1973 he was succeeded by Mario Urrutia Carrasco. Echazarreta also was a regidor of Pichilemu for several terms between 1959 and 1973.
Carlos Ignacio Rojas Pavez was the 28th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,office which he held between May 1967 and May 1971. For almost three decades,Rojas Pavez worked as the municipal secretary of Pichilemu,and in 1944,along with JoséArraño Acevedo and Miguel Larravide Blanco,founded Pichilemu,a newspaper focused in local stories.
Washington Saldías Fuentealba was the 29th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu,office which he held between May 1971 and September 1973:his term was interrupted by the 1973 Chilean coup d'état,which put General Augusto Pinochet in the power of the country,and who later appointed Carlos Echazarreta Iñiguez as the successor of Saldías. Saldías was also regidor of the commune of Pichilemu between 1963 and 1971,and a founding member of the Club Aéreo de Pichilemu.
El Marino was a Chilean daily newspaper,based in Pichilemu,Cardenal Caro province. It was founded on 14 January 1917 by newspaper editor Augusto Ramírez Olivares,and circulated between January and March 1917.
Pichilemu,originally known as Pichilemo,is a beach resort city and commune in central Chile,and capital of Cardenal Caro Province in the O'Higgins Region. The commune comprises an urban centre and twenty-two villages,including Ciruelos,Cáhuil,and Espinillo. It is located southwest of Santiago. Pichilemu had over 13,000 residents as of 2012.
