El Loa

Province of El Loa

Provincia de El Loa
Province of El Loa Provincia de El Loa
Province
	Seal ; El Loa province, in red, in the Antofagasta Region Province of El Loa Location in Chile
	Coordinates: 22°50′S 68°07′W / 22.833°S 68.117°W
Country	Chile
Region	Antofagasta
Capital	Calama
Comunas	Calama, Ollagüe, San Pedro de Atacama
Government
• Type	Provincial
• Governor	Claudio Andrés Lagos Gutiérrez
Area
• Total	41,999.6 km2 (16,216.1 sq mi)
Population (2002 Census)
• Total	143,689
• Density	3.4/km2 (8.9/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-4 (CLT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (CLST)
Area code	56 + 55
Website	Official website

The Province of El Loa (Spanish: Provincia de El Loa) is one of three provinces of the northern Chilean region of Antofagasta (II). It is named after the longest river of Chile, the Loa. The provincial capital is Calama.

Geography

The El Loa province has an area of 41,999.6 km² (16,216.1 sq mi).^[2]

The province is bordered on the north by the Tarapacá region, on the east by Bolivia, on the south by Argentina and on the west by the Antofagasta and the Tocopilla provinces.

Population

As of 2002^[update] (last national census), there were 143,689 people living in the province, giving it a population density of 3.4 inhabitants/km².^[2]

The largest city of the province is Calama, its capital, with a population, in 2002, of 126,135 inhabitants.

Administration

As a province, the El Loa province is a second-level administrative division, consisting of three communes (comunas). The city of Calama serves as the provincial capital. The province is administered by a governor.

El Loa province
Code	Comuna	Capital	Area^[2] (km²)	Population^[2] (2002)
02201	5 Calama	Calama	15,596.9	138,402
02202	6 Ollagüe	Ollagüe	2,963.9	318
02203	7 San Pedro de Atacama	San Pedro de Atacama	23,438.8	4,969
Total of the El Loa province			41,999.6	143,689

References

↑ "Conozca al Gobernador". Gobernación Provincial de El Loa (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2016.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 "Región de Antofagasta" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

Other websites

Territorial division of Chile (in Spanish)
Province of El Loa website (in Spanish)

[Gobernador-1] "Conozca al Gobernador". Gobernación Provincial de El Loa (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2016.

[ineDPA-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 "Región de Antofagasta" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2016.

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