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title: "Angol" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["communes-of-chile", "capitals-of-chilean-provinces", "populated-places-established-in-1553", "destroyed-populated-places", "1599-disestablishments", "1611-establishments-in-south-america", "populated-places-in-malleco-province", "1553-establishments-in-the-spanish-empire"] topic_path: "geography/spain" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angol" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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official_nameAngol
native_nameAngol de los Confines
settlement_typeCity and Commune
image_skylinePlaza de Armas de Angol.jpg
image_captionPlaza de Armas de Angol
image_shieldEscudo de Angol.svg
image_mapComuna de Angol.svg
map_altLocation of the commune of Angol in Araucanía Region
map_captionLocation of the commune of Angol in Araucanía Region
pushpin_map_narrowyes
pushpin_mapChile
pushpin_label_positionbottom
pushpin_map_captionLocation in Chile
coordinates
subdivision_typeCountry
subdivision_nameChile
subdivision_type1Region
subdivision_name1Araucanía
subdivision_type2Province
subdivision_name2Malleco
established_titleFounded
established_date6 December 1862
government_typeMunicipality
government_footnotes
leader_partyChile Vamos
leader_titleAlcalde
leader_nameEnrique Neira Neira
area_footnotes
area_total_km21194.4
elevation_m65
population_total53262
population_as_of2017 Census
population_density_km2auto
population_blank1_titleUrban
population_blank143801
population_blank2_titleRural
population_blank25195
demographics_type1Sex
demographics1_footnotes
demographics1_title1Men
demographics1_info123,770
demographics1_title2Women
demographics1_info225,226
timezoneCLT
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timezone_DSTCLST
utc_offset_DST−3
postal_code_typePostal code
postal_code4650000
area_codecountry 56 city 45
blank_nameClimate
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website
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Angol is a commune and capital city of the Malleco Province in the Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It is located at the foot of the Cordillera de Nahuelbuta and next to the Vergara River, that permitted communications by small boats to the Bío-Bío River and Concepción. This strategic position explains the successive foundations of this city during the Arauco War. It was first founded in 1553 as a "conquistador" fort of Confines, the fort was later destroyed and rebuilt several times and it was not until the Pacification of Araucania in the late 19th century that it was rebuilt with the name of Angol. The city has a current population of approximately 53,000. Within the electoral divisions of Chile, it belongs to the 48th electoral district and the 14th senatorial circumscription.

History

Modern Angol was first founded in 1553 as the conquistador fort of Los Confines by Pedro de Valdivia, the fort was later that year abandoned and destroyed by the Mapuche after the Battle of Tucapel. In 1560, the city was established by Governor García Hurtado de Mendoza with the name of San Andrés de Angol, after his father the viceroy of Peru, the location to the north of the site of the old fort. It was commonly called Ciudad de Los Infantes for the infantrymen that had been assigned to build the city.

It was attacked and destroyed in 1599, by the Mapuches following the Disaster of Curalaba. In 1611 the city was rebuilt by Luis Merlo de la Fuente a little more to the south with the name of San Luis de Angol but it did not prosper. In 1637 Governor Francisco Laso de la Vega, refounded it with the name of San Francisco de la Vega, but in 1641, it was abandoned by the terms of the Peace of Quillin with the Mapuche. It was repopulated by Tomás Marín de Poveda in 1695, with the name of Santo Tomás de Colhue, but it was attacked and destroyed again in the Mapuche Rising of 1723 and one last time in their rising in 1766, from which it never recovered.

The present city of Angol was founded definitively by Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez, on 6 December 1862 as a fortress and base for his campaign for the Pacification of Araucania. Declared a city in 1871, it was connected by railroad with Santiago in 1876. In 1881 it was the base for the final campaign of pacification. Subsequently, it was the economic and administrative center and departure point for the Chilean and foreign colonists that occupied the lands around it.

Angol was affected by the 8.8 magnitude 27 February 2010 earthquake. A US military field hospital was deployed to the city to treat casualties from the temblor and subsequent tsunami.

Demographics

|align=left |source= |percentages=pagr |1875 |7969 |1885 |10960 |1895 |12647 |1907 |14219 |1920 |16790 |1930 |21034 |1940 |25452 |1952 |27551 |1970 |35048 |1982 |39599 |1992 |46226 |2002 |48996 |2017 |53262 |2024 |53022 According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute (INE), Angol spans 1194.4 sqkm and at that time had 48,996 inhabitants; of these, 43,801 (89.4%) lived in urban areas and 5,195 (10.6%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 23,770 men and 25,226 women. The population grew by 6.0% (2,770 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.

Administration

As a commune, Angol is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Enrique Neira Neira (ILE).

Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Angol is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Nicolas Ardiles (UDI) and Mario Venegas (PDC) as part of the 48th electoral district, together with Renaico, Collipulli, Ercilla, Los Sauces, Purén, Lumaco and Traiguén. The commune is represented in the Senate by Alberto Espina Otero (RN) and Jaime Quintana Leal (PPD) as part of the 14th senatorial constituency (Araucanía-North).

Climate

|metric first=y |single line=y |collapsed = Y |location = Angol |Jan high C = 27.0 |Feb high C = 27.2 |Mar high C = 24.3 |Apr high C = 20.1 |May high C = 15.3 |Jun high C = 12.6 |Jul high C = 12.3 |Aug high C = 13.8 |Sep high C = 16.4 |Oct high C = 20.7 |Nov high C = 22.3 |Dec high C = 25.5 | year high C = |Jan mean C = 19.0 |Feb mean C = 18.4 |Mar mean C = 16.0 |Apr mean C = 12.9 |May mean C = 9.9 |Jun mean C = 8.0 |Jul mean C = 7.9 |Aug mean C = 8.3 |Sep mean C = 10.1 |Oct mean C = 12.6 |Nov mean C = 14.6 |Dec mean C = 17.1 | year mean C = |Jan low C = 11.5 |Feb low C = 11.3 |Mar low C = 9.4 |Apr low C = 7.3 |May low C = 5.6 |Jun low C = 4.6 |Jul low C = 4.1 |Aug low C = 4.2 |Sep low C = 5.2 |Oct low C = 6.8 |Nov low C = 8.2 |Dec low C = 10.01 | year low C = |precipitation colour = green |Jan precipitation mm = 17.7 |Feb precipitation mm = 14.0 |Mar precipitation mm = 30.3 |Apr precipitation mm = 49.0 |May precipitation mm = 166.7 |Jun precipitation mm = 214.2 |Jul precipitation mm = 170.6 |Aug precipitation mm = 126.0 |Sep precipitation mm = 71.1 |Oct precipitation mm = 42.2 |Nov precipitation mm = 29.1 |Dec precipitation mm = 22.3 |year precipitation mm = | Jan humidity = 52 | Feb humidity = 54 | Mar humidity = 61 | Apr humidity = 71 | May humidity = 80 | Jun humidity = 84 | Jul humidity = 82 | Aug humidity = 79 | Sep humidity = 73 | Oct humidity = 70 | Nov humidity = 63 | Dec humidity = 56 | year humidity = |source 1 = Bioclimatografia de Chile{{cite web | first1 = Ernst | last1 = Hajek | first2 = Francesco | url = http://www.ecolyma.cl/documentos/bioclimatografia_de_chile.pdf | title = Bioclimatografia de Chile | access-date = 27 May 2024 | last2 = Castri |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20091122225453/http://www.ecolyma.cl/documentos/bioclimatografia_de_chile.pdf |archive-date = 22 November 2009 | language = es | year = 1975}}

References

Sources

References

  1. "Asociación Chilena de Municipalidades".
  2. "Municipality of Angol".
  3. "National Statistics Institute".
  4. UKPA, [https://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iBff_XdP-pA7r-utFKQZ9iV3hxiA "Foreign hospitals help out Chile"]{{dead link. (June 2024)

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