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CONCEPCION

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 824 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONCEPCION , a See also:

city of See also:southern See also:Chile, See also:capital of a See also:province and See also:department of the same name, on the right See also:bank of the Bio-Bio See also:river, 7 M. above its mouth, and 355 M. S. S.W. of See also:Santiago by See also:rail. Pop. (1895) 39,837; (1902, estimated) 49,351. It is the commercial centre of a See also:rich agricultural region, but because of obstructions at the mouth of the Bio-Bio its See also:trade passes in See also:great See also:part through the See also:port of See also:Talcahuano, 8 m. distant by rail. The small port of Penco, situated on the same See also:bay and 10 m. distant by rail, also receives a part of the trade because of See also:official restrictions at Talcahuano. Concepcion is one of the southern termini of the Chilean central railway, by which it is connected with Santiago to the N., with See also:Valdivia and Puerto See also:Montt to the S., and with the port of Talcahuano. Another See also:line extends southward through the Chilean. See also:coal-producing districts to Curanilhue, See also:crossing the Bio-Bio by a See also:steel viaduct 6000 ft. See also:long on 62 See also:skeleton piers; and a See also:short line of 10 m. runs northward to Penco. The Bio-Bio is navigable above the city for too m. and considerable See also:traffic comes through this channel. The districts tributary to Concepcion produce See also:wheat, See also:wine, See also:wool, See also:cattle, coal and See also:timber, and among the See also:industrial establishments of the city are See also:flour See also:mills, See also:furniture and See also:carriage factories, distilleries and breweries. The city is built on a level See also:plain but little above the See also:sea-level; and is laid out in See also:regular squares with broad streets.

It is an episcopal see with a See also:

cathedral and several See also:fine churches, and is the seat of a See also:court of See also:appeal. The city was founded by Pedro de Valdivia in 1550, and received the singular See also:title of " La Concepcion del Nuevo Extremo.'" It was located on the bay of Talcahuano where the See also:town of Penco now stands, about 9 M. from its See also:present site, but was destroyed by earthquakes in 1570, 1730 and 1751, and was then (1755) re-moved to the margin of the Bio-Bio. In 1835 it was again laid in ruins, a graphic description of which is given by See also:Charles See also:Darwin in The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. The city was twice burned by the See also:Araucanians during their long struggle against the See also:Spanish colonists.

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