Melipilla Province
province of Chile
Melipilla Province (Spanish: Provincia de Melipilla) is one of six provinces of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in central Chile. It spans an area of 4,065.7 km2 (1,569.8 sq mi). Its capital is Melipilla. It had a population of 205,718 inhabitants as per the 2024 Chilean census.
History
Chile was re-organized into twelve regions excluding the Santiago Metropolitan Area by Law No. 575 enacted on 10 July 1974. The Santiago Metropolitan Region was officially created as per Law No.3260, enacted on 3 March 1980, and was made up of six provinces including Melipilla. Melipilla is derived from Mapudungun language, and means "four Pillans", where Pillan is a spirit or demon.
Geography
Melipilla Province is one of the six provinces of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile. It covers an area of 4,065.7 km2 (1,569.8 sq mi), and occupies nearly 26% of the area of the metropolitan region.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Melipilla Province” as province of Chile. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as province of Chile. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q721498. VIAF identifies the subject as 133385189. Authority coordinates are -33.733, -71.183. 3 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2024, 1974 and 1980.
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This entry incorporates text from “Melipilla Province” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.