Primavera, Chile

Primavera
Primavera
	Commune
	Map of Primavera in the Magallanes and Antartica Chilena Region Primavera Location in Chile
	Coordinates: 52°43′S69°15′W / 52.717°S 69.250°W Coordinates: 52°43′S69°15′W / 52.717°S 69.250°W
Country	Chile
Region	Magallanes y Antártica Chilena
Province	Tierra del Fuego
Government [1]
• Type	Municipality
• Alcalde	Blagomir Brztilo Avendaño
Area [2]
• Total	4,614.2 km2 (1,781.6 sq mi)
Elevation	12 m (39 ft)
Population (2012 Census) [2]
• Total	545
• Density	0.12/km2 (0.31/sq mi)
• Urban	0
• Rural	1,016
Sex [2]
• Men	735
• Women	281
Time zone	UTC-4 (CLT [3] )
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (CLST [4] )
Area code(s)	56 + 61
Website	www.municipalidaddeprimavera.cl

Last updated September 11, 2019

Primavera (Spanish for "spring") is a Chilean commune in Tierra del Fuego Province, Magallanes and Antartica Chilena Region, Chile. It is located on the north of Tierra del Fuego Island. Its main settlement is Cerro Sombrero.

Spanish or Castilian, is a Romance language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula and today has over 450 million native speakers in Spain and in the Americas. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.

A commune is the smallest administrative subdivision in Chile. It may contain cities, towns, villages, hamlets as well as rural areas. In highly populated areas, such as Santiago, Valparaíso and Concepción, a conurbation may be broken into several communes. In sparsely populated areas, conversely, a commune may cover a substantial rural area together with several settled areas which could range from hamlets to towns or cities.

Tierra del Fuego Province is one of four provinces in the southern Chilean region of Magallanes and Antártica Chilena (XII). It includes the Chilean or western part of the main island of Tierra del Fuego, except for the part south of the Cordillera Darwin, which is in Antártica Chilena Province.

Demographics

According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Primavera spans an area of 4,614.2 km² (1,782 sq mi) and has 1,016 inhabitants (735 men and 281 women), making the commune an entirely rural area. The population fell by 38% (613 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.^[2]

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses include traditional culture, business, supplies, and traffic censuses. The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as "individual enumeration, universality within a defined territory, simultaneity and defined periodicity", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every 10 years. United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected, official definitions, classifications and other useful information to co-ordinate international practices.

The National Statistics Institute of Chile is a state-run organization of the Government of Chile, created in the second half of the 19th century and tasked with performing a general census of population and housing, then collecting, producing and publishing official demographic statistics of people in Chile, in addition to other specific tasks entrusted to it by law.

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. The Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines the word rural as encompassing "...all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area. Whatever is not urban is considered rural."

Administration

As a commune, Primavera 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 2012–2016 alcalde is Blagomir Brztilo Avendaño.^[1]

A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality such as a city council or a town council.

Alcalde is the traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had both judicial and administrative functions. An alcalde was, in the absence of a corregidor, the presiding officer of the Castilian cabildo and judge of first instance of a town. Alcaldes were elected annually, without the right to reelection for two or three years, by the regidores of the municipal council. The office of the alcalde was signified by a staff of office, which they were to take with them when doing their business. A woman who holds the office is termed an Alcaldesa.

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Primavera is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Juan Enrique Morano (PDC) and Gabriel Boric (Ind.) as part of the 60th electoral district, which includes the entire Magallanes and Antartica Chilena Region. The commune is represented in the Senate by Carlos Bianchi Chelech (Ind.) and Carolina Goic Boroevic (PDC) as part of the 19th senatorial constituency (Magallanes Region).

Chile has two distinct electoral division systems:

The Honourable Chamber of Deputies of the Republic of Chile is the lower house of Chile's bicameral Congress. Its organisation and its powers and duties are defined in articles 42 to 59 of Chile's current constitution.

The Senate of the Republic of Chile is the upper house of Chile's bicameral National Congress, as established in the current Constitution of Chile.

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Porvenir is the capital of both the homonymous commune and the Chilean Province of Tierra del Fuego of the Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region. It is one of Chile's southernmost towns, and has 4,734 inhabitants, including several thousand soldiers. It is the largest settlement in the Chilean half of the island of Tierra del Fuego.

Antártica Chilena Province is the southernmost and one of four provinces in Chile's southernmost region, Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region (XII). The capital is Puerto Williams. The province comprises the extreme southern part of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, the islands south and west of Isla Grande, and Chile's claims in Antarctica. The province is administratively divided into two communes (comunas): Cabo de Hornos, located at the southern tip of South America, and Antártica, a wedge-shaped claim of Antarctica, which is not internationally recognized. Its total area of 1,265,853.7 km² (488,749 sq mi) makes it almost twice as large as all other provinces of Chile combined.

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References

1 2 "Municipality of Primavera" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2010.
1 2 3 4 "National Statistics Institute" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2010.
↑ "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
↑ "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2010.

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[Official-1] 1 2 "Municipality of Primavera" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2010.

[INE-2] 1 2 3 4 "National Statistics Institute" (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2010.

[3] "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2010.

[4] "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 26 September 2010.

v t e Communes and municipalities in Magallanes y la Antártica Chilena Region
Última Esperanza	Puerto Natales Torres del Paine
Magallanes	Laguna Blanca Punta Arenas Río Verde San Gregorio
Tierra del Fuego	Porvenir Primavera Timaukel
Antártica Chilena	Cabo de Hornos Antártica

Primavera, Chile

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