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50-559: Born in Concepción , he served as the president of Chile between 1841 and 1851. At the age of 16 he was imprisoned as a revolutionary by the Spanish authorities, but was soon released, and in 1818 joined the army of San Martin under whom he served as colonel throughout the Chilean War of Independence . After three years of continuous warfare (1820–23), he accomplished the temporary conquest of

100-523: A municipal council , headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2012-2016 alcalde is Víctor Hugo Figueroa Víctor_Hugo_Figueroa_Rebolledo  [ es ] (ILE). Within the electoral divisions of Chile , Penco is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Sergio Bobadilla ( UDI ) and Clemira Pacheco ( PS ) as part of the 45th electoral district, (together with Tomé , Florida , Hualqui , Coronel and Santa Juana ). The commune

150-555: A Peruvian field hospital has been deployed to the city. Like most of the Chilean territory, the Concepción region is seismically active , with much of Concepción destroyed by a violent earthquake in 1939 . An earthquake in 1953 damaged 15% of the town's buildings. Another major earthquake in 1960 had a nearby epicenter. On February 27, 2010, an earthquake of 8.8 magnitudes struck at 35.846°S, 72.719°W, 115 km (71 mi) NNE of

200-443: A center with many shops, as is the case of Concepcion. There is a significant percentage of foreign residents in the city, the most numerous are the Spanish, Italian and US expatriate communities. There are also smaller segments of German, French, British, Dutch , Greek , Portuguese , Croatian , Scandinavian, Arab and Australian descendants in a city settled by waves of immigration. To an outsider, there may be confusion between

250-532: A large educational offer, focused on institutes, centers of technical formation and the universities aforementioned. The University Pencopolitana whose name was Pontificia Universidad Pencopolitana de La Concepción (Pontifical Pencopolitana University of The Conception) was an old university founded through a decree of the Bishop of Concepción, delivered to the administration of the Society of Jesus which functioned between

300-475: A project driven by the National Service of Tourism (SERNATUR), where besides the rock scene, the local jazz and folk scenes are also shown. Concepción was one of the host cities of the official 1959 Basketball World Cup , where Chile won the bronze medal. Today, Concepción is home to three professional football teams: The most notable professional basketball team is: Historically characterized by

350-534: A strong manufacturing industry, Concepción has also been a major center for distribution and services and the financial basis of the regional economy. Trade in the city is concentrated in the Plaza Independencia (Independence Square), the pedestrian street Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga (built in 1981), and along the major avenues. One such avenue is the Diego Barros Arana street which has developed into

400-564: Is a Chilean city and commune in Concepción Province , Bío Bío Region on the Bay of Concepción . Founded as the city of Concepción del Nuevo Extremo ('beginning of the new extreme') on February 12, 1550 by Pedro de Valdivia , it is the third oldest city in Chile, after capital Santiago founded first in 1541 and La Serena second in 1544. As there may be confusion between the demonyms of

450-509: Is a constant commercial development. Other commercial spots, related to food, are the Vega Monumental and Mercado Central de Concepción (Central Market of Concepción) places offering various services and agricultural and livestock products. As a commune , Concepción 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 2016–2020 mayor

500-437: Is a large increase in the population. One reason is the inclusion of San Pedro , segregated from the municipality of Coronel . The Concepción commune population sharply declined in 1996 as its territory was divided, creating Chiguayante and San Pedro de la Paz . The number of people living in these communes has grown quickly since they have become bedroom communities of Concepción , i.e. residential cities that do not have

550-536: Is classified as Köppen: Csb , warm summer mediterranean , with a dry mild summer. The cool waters of the Pacific Ocean help to maintain mild temperatures throughout the year. Temperatures rarely exceed 30 °C (86 °F) or fall below 0 °C (32.0 °F). In the six-month period between May and October, the city receives approximately 83% of its total annual precipitation, which totals 1,130 mm (44 in). The wettest month since records began in 1912

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600-747: Is considered to be the natural and legitimate predecessor of the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (UCSC), erected by the Archbishop of Concepción in 1991, from the Talcahuano Regional Headquarters of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile . The image of the Pontifical University of Concepción Pencopolitana, is still valid, for His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain in his 1990 speech on

650-499: Is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Gaston Saavedra ( PS ), José Miguel Ortiz ( PDC ), Jaime Toha (PS), Felix Gonzalez ( PEV ), Enrique Van Rysselberghe (UDI), Sergio Bobadilla (UDI), Francesca Muñoz (RN) and Leonidas Romero (RN), as part of the 21st electoral district ( Concepción Province without Lota ). The commune is represented in the Senate by Alejandro Navarro Brain ( MAS ) and Jacqueline Van Rysselberghe (UDI) as part of

700-632: The Araucanian Indians . He was appointed brigadier general in 1831. In 1832 he crossed the Cordillera and defeated decisively the Pincheira brothers in the battle of Epulafquén. Then Bulnes commanded the Chilean army in 1838 against Gen. Santa Cruz in Peru ; and, after taking Lima and winning the battles of Huaraz and Puente del Buin , combined his forces with those of Gamarra and defeated Santa Cruz at

750-533: The Battle of Yungay (January 19, 1839), thus putting an end to the confederation between Peru and Bolivia . His presidencies were characterised by educational and cultural expansion, supported by the encouragement of foreign intellectuals to come to Chile. The National Institute was reformed and several junior schools were established along with the José Abelardo Núñez Upper School . In Santiago

800-662: The Bío Bío Region . It sits about 500 km south of the nation's capital, Santiago . The city was first settled in the Bay of Concepción , in the zone that would later become the commune of Penco , now part of the Concepción conurbation . The city's demonym, penquista , comes from the place of its original foundation. The city center and historic district is located in the Valle de la Mocha (La Mocha Valley), where it relocated after serious damage left by an earthquake in 1751. The origin of Concepción dates back to 1550, when it

850-455: The Concepción province , although the term penquista can technically be used in this case as well. In 2014, the Rock en Conce festival began to take shape. It would be held outdoors, in the city's Parque Bicentenario (Bicentennial Park), and access to it would be free. The aim of the festival would be to restore the musical spotlight that the city embodied and that earned it the reputation of being

900-485: The Magellan Straits . The settlement was relocated to Punta Arenas six years later because the original site offered insufficient space for the development of a settled community: it was and remains the most southerly municipality in the world, and has been a focus for economic development in the south of the country. Germans were targeted to colonise the hitherto very sparsely inhabited southern part of Chile in

950-684: The Teatro Biobío , the Casa del Arte , the local Natural History Museum, and the Teatro Universidad de Concepción . Concepción was founded by Don Pedro de Valdivia in 1550 north of the Bío Bío River , at the site which is today known as Penco . At that time it was given the name Concepción de María Purísima del Nuevo Extremo (Mary Immaculate Conception of the New End). The new settlement of Concepción

1000-527: The University of Chile was founded during his watch, in 1842, as well as a technical training school from which the University of Santiago is descended. Bulnes also presided over a general amnesty in order to reconcile the groups who had opposed one another in the Civil War of 1829 . Regarding the nation's strategic goals, Bulnes founded Fuerte Bulnes in 1843 in order to establish and enforce sovereignty over

1050-412: The cradle of Chilean rock and, at the same time, to establish itself as a major tourist attraction for the city. Its first edition took place on Saturday, March 7, 2015, and since then it has been held with great success every year at the end of each summer, bringing together emerging local bands with major and renowned artists from the national and international scene. Concepción has been described as

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1100-418: The demonyms of the inhabitants of Concepción and the nearby city of Penco. Due to the previous location of Concepción being where Penco currently stands, inhabitants of Concepción are called penquistas while inhabitants of Penco are known as pencones . Additionally, the unofficial term pencopolitano has been coined to refer to locals of any commune belonging to the metropolis or, in a wider definition, to

1150-626: The traditional universities , becoming one of the three most important universities in the country, and the most important at the regional level. The city has a French international school, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle and a German school, the Colegio Alemán de Concepción and a British school, Saint John's School, the former located in the city downtown and the latter examples in San Pedro de la Paz. The defunct Concepción College

1200-425: The "Chilean capital of rock", since numerous bands of this genre have started their careers in the city, such as Los Tres , Los Bunkers , Emociones Clandestinas, Santos Dumont, De Saloon , Machuca and Julius Popper, among others. Numerous bands have played their first major concerts in the city, such as Los Prisioneros . The city's music venues are a main feature of the tourist route , La Ruta de la Música ,

1250-464: The 12th senatorial constituency (Biobío-Costa). A 23 year old Chilean forestry student named Jorge Matute disappeared mysteriously in a discotheque that was located close to Concepción on 20 November 1999. In February 2004 on a road in Santa Juana , Matute's remains were found and identified. Concepción's sister cities are: Penco Penco ( Mapudungun : See ( Pen ), Water ( Ko )),

1300-496: The 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute , Penco spans an area of 107.6 km (42 sq mi) and has 46,016 inhabitants (22,366 men and 23,650 women). Of these, 45,361 (98.6%) lived in urban areas and 655 (1.4%) in rural areas . The population grew by 14% (5,657 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses. As a commune, Penco is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by

1350-520: The Blessed Mother of Light") is a city and commune in south-central Chile , and the geographical and demographic core of the Greater Concepción metropolitan area , one of the three major conurbations in the country. It has a significant impact on domestic trade being part of the most heavily industrialized region in the country. It is the seat of the Concepción Province and the capital of

1400-515: The Concepción area chronicler Jerónimo de Vivar noted local Mapuches wore gold and silver bracelets and "sort of crowns". This is interpreted either as Incan gifts, war spoils from defeated Incas, or the adoption of Incan metallurgy . Although Concepción was a significant military settlement for the Captaincy General of Chile , it was overrun and destroyed by Mapuche armies in 1554, and once again after being refounded in 1555. Concepción

1450-532: The Mapuche. Concepción was the home of the Real Audiencia from 1565 to 1575. Earthquakes and tsunamis , which razed the town in 1570 , 1657, 1687, 1730 and 1751, led the authorities to move the town to its current site in the Valle de la Mocha , alongside the Bío Bío River ; the old site lay empty until March 29, 1842, when the present town of Penco was founded. The new site for the town of Concepción became

1500-549: The University of Chile allowed schools in the city to teach courses in law which allowed men to obtain a law degree. Among its students was Henry Urrutia Manzano, who decades later became president of the Supreme Court of Chile. The Universidad de Concepción was created in 1919 by a group of citizens including Enrique Molina Garmendia , its first rector. Eventually, the university began to receive state support, becoming part of

1550-621: The city. The United States Geological Survey said the earthquake struck at 0334 GMT on Saturday at a depth of 35 km (22 mi). The effects were felt as far away as São Paulo , Brazil—4,620 kilometres (2,870 mi). Concepción is known as "the university city" thanks to the numerous universities within the urban agglomeration, such as the Universidad de Concepción , Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción and Universidad del Biobío . This city also has numerous headquarters for many other universities. In addition, this metropolis has

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1600-530: The commercial center of the city and the region was until 1907 even known as " calle Comercio " ("Commerce Street"). New commercial centers are being developed around the old central station and the new civic district as a part of the Chilean bicentennial (September 18, 2010). A considerable percentage of local trade is taking place in settlements around the city, in communes such as Hualpén , Talcahuano and San Pedro de la Paz , where there are bustling shopping centers, such as Mall Plaza del Trébol , and where there

1650-659: The election of Manuel Montt in 1851 as president, executive power in independent Chile was dominated by Concepción elites. The city is a known college town in Chile, as it is home to numerous educational institutions, including the University of Concepción , the University of the Bío Bío , and the Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception . The commune also contains various historical bridges, murals, parks and lakes, as well as important cultural venues such as

1700-442: The first secular private university in Chile. The neighboring harbor of Talcahuano is the site of the largest naval base in Chile. On February 27, 2010, an 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Concepción, killing more than 521 people and injuring thousands nationwide. Following the earthquake, geologists relying on global positioning satellite (GPS) data concluded that the city had been displaced roughly 3 meters (9.8 feet) to

1750-524: The inhabitants of Concepción and Penco. Due to the previous location of Concepción, inhabitants of that city are called penquistas while inhabitants of Penco are known as pencones . In previous centuries, in the current location of Penco, was the first location where the city of Concepción was established, which is now the capital of the Bíobío Region. It was destroyed by Lautaro in 1554, and rebuilt and destroyed again by Lautaro in 1555. According to

1800-688: The main town of the Intendancy of Concepción, whose jurisdiction extended from the Maule River to La Frontera. The first Intendant of Concepción was the Irishman Ambrose O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno , who later became Royal Governor of Chile and Viceroy of Peru . When the First National Government Board met in Santiago on September 18, 1810, citizens of Concepción joined up. Concepción

1850-409: The moment of independence, the city had been the scene of various engagements in its old and new settlements. On February 20, 1835, the town again was largely destroyed by an earthquake and had to be rebuilt. By 1875, a key British community and German colony existed within the province. By 1895, there was an even larger Spanish presence. The Universidad de Concepción , founded in 1919, became

1900-551: The natural disasters, it was decided to relocate the city to the called Valle de la Mocha , location where it is currently situated. Slowly the seminary was revived in the new location, in a period of decline in academic activity in Chilean monastic universities after the creation of the Universidad de San Felipe , yet some degrees continued to be granted before the Suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1767. The aforementioned University

1950-685: The occasion of his inauguration as Doctor Honoris Causa in the University of Chile , in Santiago de Chile, said: "The work of the Pontifical University Pencopolitana should not be ignored, even before the creation of the University of San Felipe" (Juan Carlos's account fails to acknowledge the existence of San Felipe's predecessor, the Dominican Universidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino, from the sixteenth century in Santiago). Meanwhile,

2000-510: The township has an area of 221.6 km (86 sq mi) and a population of 216,061 inhabitants, of whom 103,860 are men and 112,201 are women. As a commune, Concepcion is home to 14.35% of the total population of the region. 1.88% (4,058 persons) is for the rural population and 98.12% (212,003) for the urban population. Moreover, 5.5% of the country's population lives in the Greater Concepción metro area. Between 1970 and 1982 there

2050-579: The wake of the 1848 revolutions which provided an impetus for emigration from the European perspective. It was also during the presidency of Bulnes that the former colonial power, Spain , acknowledged the independence of Chile and became involved in the construction of Chile's first railway. Manuel Bulnes Prieto died in Santiago . Concepci%C3%B3n, Chile Concepción ( Spanish pronunciation: [konseβˈsjon] ; originally: Concepción de la Madre Santísima de la Luz , "Conception of

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2100-400: The west as a result of the event. The tsunami that followed missed the city. After the 2010 Chile earthquake , a prison riot began in Concepción's El Manzano prison following a failed escape attempt by the inmates. Different parts of the prison were set on fire and the riot was controlled only after the guards shot into the air and received help from military units. As of March 5, 2010,

2150-405: The years 1724 and 1767. On May 24, 1751, an earthquake followed by a tsunami , ravaged the city causing serious damage, including the destruction of the library of the university and all of its funds. As a product of the fury of the waters, a rich collection of texts of the governance of southern Chile were lost, which resulted in a disaster for the culture and collective memory of the city. Due to

2200-536: Was June 2000 with 565.7 millimetres (22.3 in), whilst all months from November to April have been rainless on occasions. As might be expected for such a large urban area heavily dependent on wood-burning for heat and diesel for transport, the air in Concepción is third-most polluted in Chile, after Santiago and Temuco . According to data collected in 2002 in the Census of the National Institute of Statistics ,

2250-559: Was a parochial girls' day school and boarding school, established in 1878 by the Methodist Episcopal Church . The city is served by Carriel Sur International Airport in Talcahuano. The metro area's public transportation comprises a number of bus lines that run through several avenues and streets of the communes belonging to the agglomeration, as well as the commuter rail system known as Biotrén . The climate of Concepción

2300-583: Was founded by Pedro de Valdivia as part of the Spanish Empire , under the name of Concepción de María Purísima del Nuevo Extremo , and was the capital of the Kingdom of Chile between 1565 and 1573, retaining the unofficial position of military capital for the rest of the colonial period . The city was an important site in the struggle for Chile's independence , with the Chilean declaration of Independence being held at Concepción's Plaza de la Independencia . Until

2350-467: Was just a few kilometers north of La Frontera (The Frontier), the boundary between Spanish territory and the land of the Mapuche , an American Indian ethnic group that remained independent until the 1870s. The settlement was formally recognized by the Spanish authorities as a town two years later by a royal decree. It was given a coat-of-arms that is still in use today. At the time of the Spanish arrival to

2400-581: Was restored during the governorship of García Hurtado de Mendoza when he landed there and built a fort on the Alto de Pinto in 1557. The town was refounded once more on January 6, 1558, by captain Jerónimo de Villegas. It became the headquarters of the military forces engaged against the Mapuche in La Araucanía over the next two centuries, growing to a population of 10,000 despite a siege in 1564 and other attacks by

2450-569: Was used as the point of entry by the Spanish Army in the attempt by the Viceroyalty of Peru to re-conquer Chile. Concepción politicians and soldiers became a significant political force in the newly independent country. On January 1, 1818, Ambrose O'Higgins's son, Bernardo O'Higgins , proclaimed and took the oath of the Chilean War of Independence in the main square of Concepción, which since then has been known as "Plaza de la Independencia". Until

2500-436: Was Álvaro Ortiz Vera ( Christian Democratic Party ), who was first elected in 2012. The communal council has 10 seats, which are currently occupied (2016–2020) by three for Christian Democratic Party , two for National Renewal , two for Independent Democrat Union , one for Communist Party , one for Socialist Party , and one for Radical Party . The following members are: Within the electoral divisions of Chile , Concepción

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