La Pintana

- 33.585022 - 70.629516Koordinaten: 33 ° 35 '6 " S, 70 ° 37 ' 46 " W

La Pintana is a commune in Chile. It is part of Greater Santiago and is located at the southern edge of town. It has about 190,000 inhabitants. 27% of the 3031 -hectare municipal area are urban, and the remaining area is rural.

History

Before the colonization of the today's municipality territory by the Spaniards settled there Picunche. The Spanish viceroy in Peru awarded the rights to their lands to the Chilean governor Ambrosio O'Higgins (* 1720 - † 1801) as a reward for his loyalty to the Spanish Crown. His son Bernardo (* 1778 - † 1842) led Chile to independence, marked out the area and distributed it to some members of the independence movement. The new rulers constructed irrigation canals and converted the originally very dry area in a fertile agricultural zone with field and livestock.

Only in the mid 20th century, de La Pintana began today, which was then incorporated into the municipality of La Granja to populate under the pressure of the expanding Santiago. 1945-1957 were formed three zones with small fields for workers and their families. 1965 there was an extensive land occupation and in consequence to a strong increase in population, which eventually triggered an urban development in this area. 1984, the municipality of La Granja La Pintana was split off and given its own local government.

In the period between 1985 and 1994, the resolution of slums in Santiago and the massively powered resettlement of poorer population groups from all parts of Santiago on the outskirts of the city led to the formation of some densely populated Siedlungsenklaven. So La Pintana emerged in a spontaneous form of skipping as a community, the usual slow urban growth stages. Accordingly, there was a lack of orderly urban development and municipal facilities. Within 10 years the population grew from 80,000 to 190,000. Together with the east and west neighboring communities formed La Pintana a so-called poverty belt around Santiago. Was particularly disadvantageous that the new church was a last stop on the way from Santiago. Unlike in neighboring communities could not transit to take place in other municipalities, the road from Santiago ended there. Torn from their social network and far from work opportunities had to take on the inhabitants a long commute to work in other parts of the city of Santiago.