Villa Alemana

File:Tren Villa Alemana 1880.jpg

Villa Alemana was founded at the beginning of a Chilean railway development. Its climate is so temperate that the slogan is "The City of Eternal Youth" ("La ciudad de la eterna juventud" in Spanish) or "City of the Mills" ("Ciudad de los Molinos" in Spanish).

There was originally nothing but fields as well as a small vineyard, trees and flowers, dominated by hawthorn trees (Crataegus). Where the Theater Pompeya stands today, land was offered for 20 cents per meter. And that was where Don Buenaventura Joglar had the idea to buy land and build a population which he named Villa Alemana, as German emigrants were the first to buy these sites.{{cn|date=December 2021}}

On 8 November 1894, it was founded under the name of Viña Miraflores. The property was owned by Don Buenaventura Joglar, who divided the land into lots and set the name of Villa Alemana.{{cn|date=December 2021}}

On 5 January 1918, the commune of Villa Alemana was established, but in 1928 it was incorporated in Quilpué. On 7 June 1933, Villa Alemana separated from Quilpué, recreating the commune of Villa Alemana. Today, it is a bedroom community for Viña del Mar and Valparaíso.{{cn|date=December 2021}}

According to the 2017 census of the National Statistics Institute, Villa Alemana spans an area of {{convert|96.5|sqkm|0|abbr=on}} and has 126,548 inhabitants (59,756 men and 66,792 women). Of these, 125,327 (99%) lived in urban areas and 1221 (1%) in rural areas. The population grew by 32.34% (30,925 persons) between the 2002 and 2017 censuses.

As a commune, Villa Alemana is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2021-2024 alcalde is Javiera Toledo Muñoz. The council has the following members:

• Edith Alvear Guerra
• Cecilia Quinteros Díaz
• Marcelo Valderrama Magna
• Guillermo Barra Arancibia
• Kesia Navarro Cueto
• Marcelo Góngora Carvajal
• María Fernanda Ternicier Andrades
• Alonso Fierro Reguera

Within the electoral divisions of Chile Villa Alemana is part of the 6th electoral district, represented in the Chamber of Deputies by the deputies:

• Andrés Longton Herrera (RN)
• Luis Pardo Sainz (RN)
• Camila Flores Oporto (RN)
• Pablo Kast Sommerhoff (EVOPOLI)
• Marcelo Schilling Rodríguez (PS)
• Carolina Marzán Pinto (PPD)
• Daniel Verdessi Belemmi (DC)
• Diego Ibáñez Cotroneo (CS)

As part of the 6th senatorial constituency (Valparaíso), the commune is represented in the Senate by the senators:

• Francisco Chahuán Chahuán (RN)
• Kenneth Pugh Olavarría (RN)
• Ricardo Lagos Weber (PPD)
• Isabel Allende Bussi (PS)
• Juan Ignacio Latorre Rivero (RD)

Previously the area had a German school, Deutsche Schule Villa Alemana."[http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/04/036/0403672.pdf Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672]" ({{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312191648/http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/04/036/0403672.pdf |date=2016-03-12 }}). Bundestag (West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 24/51.

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