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Yumbel

Located 68 km from Concepción, this city was founded in 1585, and was a cutting-edge fort on destroyed on various occasions, until its final foundation in 1648, It has a population 20,460.The city comes to live every 20 January and 20 March for the celebration of St Sebastian. The Sanctuary, built in 1856, houses an ancient image...

Tomé

Tomé lies 29 km. north of the city of Concepción. A port and seaside resort famous for its textile industry, endowed with wide streets and modern buildings. It’s coastal and rural setting makes it an important tourist center.Tomé’s beaches begin further south of Punta de Parra. Punta de Parra, accessible...

Coronel

Situated 30km from the city of Concepción and 545km from Santiago, between the Gulf of Arauco to the east and the Cordillera of Nahuelbuta, Coronel has a population of 95,374.The city was originally built near to the old Carbonífera Schwager Company, and is today an active center for the fishing industry and a timber port...

Penco

Its name means ‘water of peumo’ and it lies 9km from Concepción. It has approximately 40,000 inhabitants. This was the first city founded in the south by Pedro de Valdivia in 1550, who named it Concepción of the New Extreme. This was the original city of Concepción until it was moved to its actual site in 1764, after being...

Dichato

A seaside resort located 37km north of Concepción and only 9km from Tomé; visited by thousands of tourists every season. Its 2,400 meter-long beach and gentle waves make it suitable for water sports. Excellently equipped hotels and high level restaurants can be found there.To the north of Dichato there are more great beaches, such...

Lota

Lota is an old mining town located 9 km south from the city of Coronel. The town is dependent on its industry of coal mining, begun in 1852 by Matías Cousiño.Lota was founded in 1662 by the Spanish Governor Angel de Peredo, and on 5 January 1875 it was awarded the title of ‘City’. In 1852 Matías Cousiño bought the lands...

Where to go in Concepción?

Catedral de la Santísima Concepción The cathedral was built between 1940 and 1950 in...

How to get to Concepción?

Concepción is 510 km south of Santiago, 399 km from Chillán and 509 km from the city of Los...

Squares of Concepción

Plaza de la Independencia Its name commemorates the Independence of Chile, which came about on 1 January 1818. The plaza still has the same layout of that age, apart from the lime trees that used to surround it, which fell during a storm in 1997.Plaza Carlos Condell Arranged and inaugurated on 4 June 1905 by the first Mayor...

Churches in Concepción

Catedral de Concepción The cathedral stands in calle Caupolicán, between O’Higgins and Barros...

Talcahuano

Located 16 km northeast from the city of Concepción, in the bay, is the city of Talcahuano, with 244,034 inhabitants. It comprises a port in the Bay of Concepción and one in the Bay of San Vicente. It is the main military, industrial and fishing port of the southern zone of the country.It is close to the city of Concepción, and...

History of Concepción

Concepción was founded in 1550 on the present site of the city of Penco, and was the second most important city in Chile during the Spanish colonization. Between 1565 and 1573 it was seat of the Royal Court. In 1600, with the desertion of the cities located to the south of the Bío Bío, the bishopric of The Imperial was moved, after...

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