La Reina (
SpanishSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
: "The queen") is a commune of
ChileChile, 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 RegionThe Santiago 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 created in 1963 from an eastern portion of the
ÑuñoaÑuñoa is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region...
commune. It consistently ranks in the top five communes with the best quality of life in the Metropolitan Region.
La Reina is a leafy, residential commune, inhabited by mostly mid to upper-mid income families, with certain areas inhabited by mid-low (
Villa La Reina) and high-income (
La Reina Alta, towards the east) groups.
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La Reina (
SpanishSpanish or Castilian is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that originated in northern Spain and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile, evolving into the principal language of government and trade in the Iberian peninsula...
: "The queen") is a commune of
ChileChile, 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 RegionThe Santiago 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 created in 1963 from an eastern portion of the
ÑuñoaÑuñoa is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region...
commune. It consistently ranks in the top five communes with the best quality of life in the Metropolitan Region.
La Reina is a leafy, residential commune, inhabited by mostly mid to upper-mid income families, with certain areas inhabited by mid-low (
Villa La Reina) and high-income (
La Reina Alta, towards the east) groups. A small airport —Aerodrómo Eulogio Sánchez Errázuriz (better known as Tobalaba)— is located on the southern part.
Stats
- Area: 23.4 km²
- Population: 97,553 (2006 projection)
- Average annual household income: US$42,248 (PPP
The purchasing power parity theory uses the long-term equilibrium exchange rate of two currencies to equalize their purchasing power...
, 2006)
- Population below poverty line: 7.8% (2006)
- Regional quality of life index: 86.23, high, 4 out of 52 (2005)
- Human Development Index
The Human Development Index is an index used to rank countries by level of "human development", which usually also implies whether a country is developed, developing, or underdeveloped.-Summary:...
: 0.883, 5 out of 341 (2003)
Notable residents
- Fernando González
Fernando Francisco González Ciuffardi is a professional tennis player from Chile. He is known for having one of the hardest hitting forehands on the circuit. In Spanish he is called El bombardero de La Reina and Mano de Piedra...
- Fernando Castillo Velasco
- Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker was a German Communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic from 1971 until 1989....
- Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a mathematician and poet often considered to be the most influential poet Chile has produced...
- Alfonso Poblete
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