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COLCHAGUA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 660 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COLCHAGUA , a See also:

province of central See also:Chile, bounded N. by See also:Santiago and O'See also:Higgins, E. by See also:Argentina, S. by Curic6, and W. by the Pacific. Its See also:area is officially estimated at 3856 sq. m.; pop. (1895) 157,566. Extending across the See also:great central valley of Chile, the province has a considerable area devoted to See also:agriculture, but much See also:attention is given to See also:cattle and See also:mining. Its See also:principal See also:river is the Rapel, sometimes considered as the See also:southern limit of the Inca See also:empire. Its greatest tributary is the Cachapoal, in the valley of which, among the Andean foothills, are the popular thermal See also:mineral See also:baths of Cauquenes, 2306 ft. above See also:sea-level. The See also:state central railway from Santiago to Puerto See also:Montt crosses the province and has two branches within its See also:borders, one from Rengo to Peumo, and one from See also:San Fernando via Palmilla to Pichilemu on the See also:coast. The principal towns are the See also:capital, San Fernando, Rengo and Palmilla. San Fernando is one of the several towns founded in 1742 by the See also:governor-See also:general Jose de Manso, and had a See also:population of 7447 in 1895. Rengo is an active commercial See also:town and had a population of 6463 in 1895.

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