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.
José María 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.
Olga Maturana Espinosa was a Chilean politician born in Santiago. Maturana worked as Councillor of Pichilemu in 1950, and became the first female Mayor of Pichilemu in 1951.
Mario Alejandro Moraga Cáceres is a Chilean politician, who worked as regidor of Pichilemu, O'Higgins Region, between 1967 and 1970. Moraga is popularly known as el Sin Pelos en la Lengua, after the radio program he hosts in Radio Entre Olas.
Francisco Javier Asalgado was the second and fourth Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he held between May 1905 and September 1909, and between May and September 1912.
Carlos Ignacio Salas Salas was the third Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he held together with Francisco Javier Asalgado between May and September 1909, and following an appeals court rule, he completed his three-year term alone, between September 1909 and May 1912.
José Santos Becerra was the fifth Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he held between September 1912 and May 1915.
Gustavo Silva Pizarro was a Chilean lawyer, political scientist and the sixth Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he held for nine years between May 1915 and May 1924.
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.
Osvaldo Sotomayor Ilabaca was the 15th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he held between February and March 1935, for a span of only nine days, under President Arturo Alessandri Palma. Sotomayor's mayoral term is the shortest in the history of Pichilemu, excluding acting mayor Gustavo Parraguez Galarce.
Alberto Morales Moraga was the 16th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, office which he held between March and May 1935, under President Arturo Alessandri Palma. He was succeeded by Serafín López Lizana, who died in office in September 1935.
José Serafín López Lizana was the 17th mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, an office which he held from May 1935 until his death in October of that year. He was succeeded by Humberto Llanos Martínez.
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 Echazarreta Larraín was the 21st Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu, Chile, office which he held between May 1947 and May 1950. He was succeeded by Sergio Morales Retamal. Echazarreta also was a regidor of Pichilemu for several terms.
Basilio Sánchez Beguiristáin was a Chilean physician. Between May 1960 and May 1963, Sánchez was the 26th Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu. He is also one of the founding members of the Pichilemu Fire Bureau and was, for decades, the director of the hospital of Pichilemu.
Carlos José Ramón 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 José Arraño 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.
Gustavo Osvaldo Parraguez Galarce is the municipal secretary of Pichilemu, and was the interim Mayor of the commune of Pichilemu three different times, in 1992, 2007, and 2008.
