") is a commune of Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

 located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region

Santiago Metropolitan Region

Santiago Metropolitan Region or simply Metropolitan Region is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions. It is the country's only landlocked administrative region and contains the nation's capital, Santiago...

. It was founded on August 10, 1896.

Administration

As a commune, Bulnes is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council

Municipal council

A municipal council is the local government of a municipality. Specifically the term can refer to the institutions of various countries that can be translated by this term...

, headed by an alcalde

Alcalde

Alcalde , or Alcalde ordinario, 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...

 who is directly elected every four years. The alcalde's office (alcaldía) is located at Gran Avenida No. 3418. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Julio César Palestro Velásquez (PS

Socialist Party of Chile

The Socialist Party of Chile is a political party, that is part of the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy coalition. Its historical leader was the late President of Chile Salvador Allende Gossens, who was deposed by General Pinochet in 1973...

) and the council members are:

• Rodrigo González Cerón (UDI)
• María Cristina Teixido Oliu IND (UDI)
• Rodrigo Barrientos Nunes (RN
  National Renewal (Chile)
  National Renewal , is a liberal conservative political party belonging to the Chilean right-wing political coalition Coalition for Change in conjunction with the Independent Democratic Union and the Chile First movement...
  
  )
• Patricia Núñez Mañan (PDC
  Christian Democratic Party
  Christian democratic parties are those political parties that seek to apply Christian principles to public policy. The underlying Christian democracy movement emerged in 19th-century Europe, largely under the influence of Catholic social teaching, and it continues to be influential in Europe and...
  
  )
• Gloria Arancibia Farías (PPD
  Party for Democracy
  The Party for Democracy is a political party in Chile; it is social democratic in its political orientation. It was founded in December 1987 by Ricardo Lagos, who aimed at forming a legal social democratic party . The party continued to function after the defeat of Pinochet...
  
  )
• Carlos García Ponce (PS)

San Miguel belongs to the 28th electoral division (together with Pedro Aguirre Cerda

Pedro Aguirre Cerda

Pedro Aguirre Cerda was a Chilean political figure. A member of the Radical Party, he was chosen as the Popular Front's candidate for the 1938 presidential election, and was triumphally elected. He governed Chile until his death in 1941...

 and Lo Espejo

Lo Espejo

Lo Espejo is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It has the country's largest population density.-Demographics:...

) and the 8th senatorial constituency (Santiago East). It is represented in the Chamber of Deputies

Chamber of Deputies of Chile

The 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....

 of the National Congress

National Congress of Chile

The National Congress is the legislative branch of the government of the Republic of Chile.The National Congress of Chile was founded on July 4, 1811...

 by the deputies Guillermo Teillier del Valle (PDC) and Pedro Browne Urrejola (RN). It is represented in the Senate by senators Soledad Alvear

Soledad Alvear

María Soledad Alvear Valenzuela , is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician, who was a cabinet member of the Aylwin, Frei and Lagos administrations. She was president of the Christian Democrat Party from 2006-2008...

 (PDC) and Pablo Longueira

Pablo Longueira

Juan Pablo Longueira Montes in a Chilean right-wing politician, industrial civil engineer and Independent Democrat Union senator . He was previously a deputy . He launched his candidacy for president of Chile on March 30, 2007, but canceled it on May 3, 2007.-External links:* *...

 (UDI).

Demographics

According to the 2002 census

Census

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 of the National Statistics Institute

National Statistics Institute (Chile)

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...

, San Miguel spans an area of 9.5 sqkm and has 78,872 inhabitants (37,836 men and 41,036 women), making the commune an entirely urban area

Urban area

An urban area is characterized by higher population density and vast human features in comparison to areas surrounding it. Urban areas may be cities, towns or conurbations, but the term is not commonly extended to rural settlements such as villages and hamlets.Urban areas are created and further...

. The population fell by 4.8% (3997 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. The demonym

Demonym

A demonym , also referred to as a gentilic, is a name for a resident of a locality. A demonym is usually – though not always – derived from the name of the locality; thus, the demonym for the people of England is English, and the demonym for the people of Italy is Italian, yet, in english, the one...

 for a person from San Miguel is sanmiguelino for a man or sanmiguelina for a woman.

Other statistics:

• Average annual household income: US$39,670 (PPP
  Purchasing power parity
  In economics, purchasing power parity is a condition between countries where an amount of money has the same purchasing power in different countries. The prices of the goods between the countries would only reflect the exchange rates...
  
  , 2006)
• Population below poverty line: 2.5% (2006)
• Regional quality of life index: 82.17, high, 6 out of 52 (2005)
• Human Development Index
  Human Development Index
  The Human Development Index is a composite statistic used to rank countries by level of "human development" and separate "very high human development", "high human development", "medium human development", and "low human development" countries...
  
  : 0.765, 31 out of 341 (2003)

Notable sanmiguelinos

• Los Prisioneros
  Los Prisioneros
  Los Prisioneros was a chilean rock band formed in San Miguel, Santiago, Chile in 1982. They began as a local band during the early 1980s, playing small shows in their neighborhood and high school...
  
  
• Paulina Urrutia
• Ruben Palma
  Ruben Palma
  Ruben Palma . Chilean-born Danish writer- Life :Rubén Palma grew up in one of Santiago's bigger, popular quarters of that time: San Miguel. He left Chile in 1973, immediately after the coup. Since 1974, he has resided in Denmark where he became Danish citizen...
  
  
• Themo Lobos
  Themo Lobos
  Themístocles Nazario Lobos Aguirre , better known as Themo Lobos, is a Chilean comic strip, comic book writer and artist. He is the creator of characters such as Máximo Chambónez, Ferrilo, Nick Obre, and Alaraco, but his most famous work is Mampato, a character first developed, briefly, by Eduardo...
  
  

External links

Municipality of San Miguel