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Encyclopedia Britannica



CONCEPCION

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 824 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CONCEPCION , a city of southern Chile,
capital
  of a province and department of the same name, on the right bank of the Bio-Bio river, 7 M. above its mouth, and 355 M. S. S.W. of Santiago by rail. Pop. (1895) 39,837; (1902, estimated) 49,351. It is the commercial centre of a
rich
  agricultural region, but because of obstructions at the mouth of the Bio-Bio its
trade
  passes in
great
 
part
  through the port of Talcahuano, 8 m. distant by rail. The small port of Penco, situated on the same bay and 10 m. distant by rail, also receives a
part
  of the
trade
  because of 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 Valdivia and Puerto Montt to the S., and with the port of Talcahuano. Another line extends southward through the Chilean. coal-producing districts to Curanilhue, crossing the Bio-Bio by a steel viaduct 6000 ft.
long
  on 62 skeleton piers; and a short line of 10 m. runs
northward to Penco. The Bio-Bio is navigable above the city for too m. and considerable
traffic
  comes through this channel. The districts tributary to Concepcion produce wheat, wine, wool, cattle, coal and timber, and among the industrial establishments of the city are flour mills, furniture and carriage factories, distilleries and breweries. The city is built on a level plain but little above the sea-level; and is laid out in
regular
  squares with broad streets. It is an episcopal see with a
cathedral
  and several fine churches, and is the seat of a
court
  of appeal. The city was founded by Pedro de Valdivia in 1550, and received the singular title of " La Concepcion del Nuevo Extremo.'" It was located on the bay of Talcahuano where the town of Penco now stands, about 9 M. from its 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 Charles Darwin in The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. The city was twice burned by the Araucanians during their
long
  struggle against the Spanish colonists.


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