Quilpué

Quilpué


Quilpué
Location in Chile
Nickname: 
"City of the Sun" (Ciudad del Sol)
Coordinates (city): 33°03′S 71°27′W / 33.050°S 71.450°W / -33.050; -71.450
CountryChile
RegionValparaíso
ProvinceMarga Marga
Founded1898
Government
  TypeMunicipality
  AlcaldeCarolina Corti (RN)
Area
  Total
536.9 km2 (207.3 sq mi)
Elevation
141 m (463 ft)
Population
 (2017 Census)
  Total
151,708
  Density280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-4 (CLT)
  Summer (DST)UTC-3 (CLST)
Postal code
2430000
Area code+56 32
ClimateCsb
WebsiteOfficial website (in Spanish)

Quilpué is a city and capital of the Marga Marga Province in central Chile's Valparaíso Region. It is part of the Greater Valparaíso metropolitan area. It is widely known as "City of the Sun" (Ciudad del Sol) and the urban part of it also comprises the town of El Belloto, an area that showed rapid growth in the late 1990s.