Concepción Province, Chile


Concepción Province is one of four provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío. Its capital, Concepción, is part of the Greater Concepción conurbation, the nation's second largest metropolitan area after Santiago.

Administration

As a province, Concepción is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president.

Communes

The province comprises twelve communes, each governed by a municipality consisting of an elected alcalde and municipal council.
According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics [Institute |National Statistics Institute], the province spans an area of and had a population of 912,889 inhabitants, giving it a population density of. It is the second most populated province after the more than five times larger Santiago Province. Of these, 879,854 lived in urban areas and 33,035 in rural areas. Between the 1992 and 2002 censuses, the population grew by 8.5%.