The archipelago administratively belongs to Chile's Valparaíso Region ( which also includes Easter Island ), and more specifically forms one of the nine communes ( comunas ) of the Valparaíso Province named Juan Fernández.

Pending the enactment of a special charter, the archipelago will continue to be governed as a commune of the Valparaíso Region.

The islands are volcanic in origin, and are usually attributed to the passing by of the Nazca Plate over the Juan Fernández hotspot which would have produced the Juan Fernández Ridge that extends into the Peru-Chile Trench at the latitude of Valparaíso Region in mainland South America.

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* 1985 – A magnitude 8. 3 earthquake struck the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a million people homeless.

The city is the capital of the Valparaíso Province and the Valparaíso Region.

The V Valparaíso Region () is one of Chile's 15 first order administrative divisions.

The Region of Valparaíso is populated by some 1. 71 million inhabitants.

* Valparaíso Region, Chile ( 2006 )

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Reñaca is a popular area of beaches and balnearios in the Valparaíso Region of Chile.

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Category: Visitor attractions in Valparaíso Region

* Cartagena, Chile, a commune in Valparaíso Region

Known as " La Ciudad Jardín " (" The Garden City "), Viña del Mar is a Chilean Municipality located in the Valparaíso Region.

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The Chilean cumbia style is called " sound " and continues to be the most popular cumbia style in the northern part of the country ( from XV region of Arica and Parinacota to V Region of Valparaíso and some regions of Southern Chile ).

* Aconcagua, within the Valparaíso Region ( V administrative region ).

The northern rail line out of Santiago is now disused past the intersection with the Valparaíso line.

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, the commune is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Joaquín Godoy ( RN ) and Aldo Cornejo ( PDC ) as part of the 13th electoral district, ( together with Valparaíso and Isla de Pascua ).

* November 26 – Battle of Papudo: The Spanish ship Covadonga is captured by the Chileans and the Peruvians, north of Valparaíso, Chile.

The Sacromonte neighborhood is located on the Valparaíso hill, one of several hills that make up Granada.

Valparaíso (, ) is a city and commune of Chile, center of its third largest conurbation ( Greater Valparaíso ), is located 69. 5 miles northwest of Santiago and one of the country's most important seaports ; it is an increasingly important cultural center in the Southwest Pacific hemisphere.

Although Santiago is Chile's official capital, the National Congress of Chile was established in Valparaíso in 1990.

Valparaíso is located in central Chile, to the northwest of the capital Santiago.

Valparaíso, like most of Chile, is vulnerable to earthquakes.

Valparaíso is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The port of Valparaíso is also an important hub for shipping of container freight, and exports of many products, including wine, copper, and fresh fruit.

The metro railway extends along most of Gran Valparaíso and is the second metro system in operation in Chile ( after Santiago ’ s ), and includes an underground section that crosses Viña del Mar ’ s downtown.

Public transport within Valparaíso itself is provided primarily by buses, trolleybuses and funiculars.

Although technically only Chile ’ s 6th largest city, with an urban area population of 263, 499 ( 275, 982 in municipality ), the Greater Valparaíso metropolitan area, including the neighbouring cities of Viña del Mar, Concón, Quilpué and Villa Alemana, is the second largest in the country ( 803, 683 inhabitants ).

As a commune, Valparaíso is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years.

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Valparaíso is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Mr. Joaquín Godoy ( RN ) and Mr. Aldo Cornejo ( PDC ) as part of the 13th electoral district, ( together with Juan Fernández and Isla de Pascua ).

Valparaíso's newspaper, El Mercurio de Valparaíso is the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in circulation in the world.

Valparaíso is also home to the so called " School of Valparaíso ", which is in fact the Faculty of Architecture & Urbanism of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.

Viña del Mar is part of the Greater Valparaíso area, the country's third largest metropolitan area ( pop.

In Congress, Viña del Mar in the Chamber of Deputies belongs to the 14th electoral district, while for the Senate it is part of the 6th Senatorial Valparaíso Coast District.

Administratively, it is part of the Easter Island Commune in the Easter Island Province of the Valparaíso Region.

During his career, Prat had taken part in several major naval engagements, including battles at Papudo ( a coastal city north of Valparaíso ) ( 1865 ), and at the Battle of Abtao ( 1866 ), at the islet of Abtao across from Chiloé Island.