Quinta Normal
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Quinta Normal is a commune in Chile. It is part of Greater Santiago and is centrally located to the west of the historic center adjacent. With 12.4 square kilometers, it is one of the smaller communities of Santiago. The population is 94,000 (estimate of 2008) with a downward trend and with an increasing proportion of older population. The economic activities in the municipality are concentrated in trade and industry.
History
Industry supplanted agriculture
As late as 1850, the area now Quinta Normal a sparsely populated agricultural area, located outside of Santiago. Around the road today Carrascal and Mapocho were a number of farms. In the extension of Calle San Pablo, the path followed, the then combined with Santiago Valparaíso, and there were already more houses.
Following the expansion of the railway network of the goods station Estación Yungay was built in 1888 on the western outskirts of the city near the intersection of today's roads Matucana and Mapocho, which in 1905 was supplemented by a passenger train station. This station was a magnet for new comprehensive industrial settlements on the territory of the present municipality of Quinta Normal. By the time settled, among others, thirteen large farms to. Among these six chemical plants produced the sulfuric and hydrochloric acids and their environment heavily contaminated. Having the industry's workers came and settled in their vicinity. This created an industrial and working-class district was described by contemporaries as " sad ", " isolated " and "terrible". There was no presence of the public administration, no police, only dirt roads and the postman did not dare to go there.
The management adapts to the development of
The area was part of the former municipality of Las Barrancas. Deren, designed for rural management structures was completely overwhelmed to keep this sprawling westward expansion of Santiago in an orderly fashion. To the management problem to solve two communities were eventually formed from the urbanising area by elimination.
In 1915, the first community Quinta Normal. It included probably the area south of San Pablo to the Alameda and was named after the Quinta Normal de Agricultura, an agricultural test site which had been created there in 1842. And in December 1916 then the town of Yungay, presumably the area north of San Pablo and included enough in the west to the street Las Rejas. Yungay then had 3661 inhabitants. For the first time city regulations have been adopted and fixed roads.
1927 street lighting was first installed, the city council ordered a subordinate police and established neighborhood organizations. In January 1930, the two congregations were united in a community under the name Quinta Normal.
City Views
Typical older row houses in the street Francisco Javier.
Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile in the park Quinta Normal. ( The park is now part of municipality Santiago)