Quillota

Quillota is a city and commune in central Chile, capital of Quillota province, Valparaíso Region. It stands out for having the oldest cemetery in Chile and the first hospital in the country. It also integrates, together with the communes of La Cruz and La Calera, the Gran Quillota. It is located at parallel 32º 54' south latitude and meridian 71º 16' west longitude, on the Aconcagua River basin. It limits to the north with La Cruz and in a small section with La Calera; to the east it limits with Hijuelas; to the south it limits with Limache and Olmué; and to the west it limits with Puchuncaví, Quintero, and in a small section with Concón.

It belongs to Electoral District No. 10, together with the communes of Cabildo, La Calera, Hijuelas, La Cruz, La Ligua, Nogales, Papudo, Petorca, Puchuncaví, Quintero and Zapallar and belongs to the Senatorial Circumscription (Valparaíso Cordillera).

Its valley was the capital of the wamani (province) of Chile during the Inca empire. It also stands out for its exports of custard apples and avocados. It has the Municipal Stadium Lucio Fariña Fernández, headquarters of the local soccer sports club, San Luis de Quillota, belonging to the Second Division of Chilean soccer.

Toponymy

There is no certainty about the origin of the place name. Although in the Quillota area the language used by the native population was Mapudungun, at the time of contact with the Spanish the territory was dominated by the Incas. In one of their languages, Aymara, q'illu uta means "yellow house", and could refer to some important building. There is a similar proposal that relates the name Quillota to the place name of uncertain origin "Chile" and uta, Chile-uta, although the valley known as Chile was further east, on the upper course of the Aconcagua River.

Another, more dubious assumption gives the meaning of “walking drunk” in Aymara.

History

The peopling of central Chile began more than 10,000 years ago. Between the III century B.C. C. and the IX century d. C. the Quillota valley coexist the Bato and Llolleo cultures. Then, in the 9th century, the local culture known as Aconcagua developed.

Representation of Guamán Poma de Ayala on a confrontation between a group of indigenous people from current Chile (left) and Captain Apu Camac Inca.

More recently, in the 15th century, the conquest by the Inca Empire occurred, making Quillota the capital of the Wamani of Chile. However, after the uprising of the local chief Michimalonco, the administration of the empire moves to its enclaves found further south, in Colina.

Spanish conquest

Around 1540, the Spanish captain Pedro de Valdivia arrived in the Quillota valley and established his stronghold or fortress there, presumably in the mountains of San Pedro and Limache, dedicating himself to extracting gold from La Campana hill, cultivating the valley of Rautén, La Palma, Boco and taking these lands for himself as his personal estate. The original population was reduced to parcels and Indian towns in La Palma, La Tetera, San Pedro (Poncahue), Boco, Pocochay, Rautén, Mauco etc.; the mestizos, dedicated to agricultural work and mining extraction on Cerro Mauco, Cerro Quilicauquen, Chilhue, Manzanar, Cerro La Campana and San Pedro; and the Spanish settlers, dedicated to agriculture, commerce, small industry, public services and military activity.

Around 1585 the formal presence of the Catholic Church began, when the doctrine of the Quillota Indians was formed, which would later lead to the formation of the San Martín de Tours parish.

Foundation of the town of Quillota

Monument to José de Santiago Concha, founder of Quillota.

On July 4, 1717, the Population Board of the Kingdom of Chile ordered the erection of the Villa de San Martín de la Concha in the Quillota Valley, as a way of uniting scattered families and giving them security. The foundation is signed on August 19, 1717, in Santiago, by the interim governor of Chile José de Santiago Concha y Salvatierra, which was verified with the presence of Bishop Luis Romero and Governor Concha y Salvatierra. This milestone went unnoticed and the documents that support it were lost for almost 260 years. The celebration of the foundation of Quillota is commemorated on November 11, as it is the day on which the patron saint of the valley, San Martín de Tours, is celebrated. A council is established with two mayors and six aldermen. Together with the town, the Corregimiento de Quillota is formed. During the colony, the city had great military and administrative importance due to its location between the capital and the port of Valparaíso.

In 1776, it became the seat of the Quillota party, belonging to the Municipality of Santiago. The Cuzcúz, Petorca, Aconcagua and Los Andes districts are successively born from this district.

Chilean Independence

In 1818 by mandate of Bernardo O'Higgins, Quillota was regularized as a municipality, naming Juan Bautista Álvarez de Araya y Fuenzalida as the first mayor. The title of city is granted to Quillota on August 6, 1822.

Until 1842, the Department of Quillota belonged to the Province of Aconcagua, but when the new province of Valparaíso was created, it became a department of the latter, which at the end of the century XIX had 19 subdelegations and 48,737 inhabitants, being the commune of Quillota its capital.

In 1884 a horse-drawn streetcar was built. Although short-lived, Quillota and Limache were the first towns in the Aconcagua Valley to have trams, preceding other cities in the area, such as San Felipe (1886).

At the end of the XIX century, during the government of President José Manuel Balmaceda, the Quillota Men's High School was founded, which bears the name of Professor Santiago Escutti Orrego. In addition, as contributions from local businessman and politician Rafael Ariztía Lyon, the San Martín Hospital and the Rafael Ariztía Institute were founded.

Francisco Astaburoaga in 1899 in his Geographical Dictionary of the Republic of Chile makes a detailed description of Quillota:

Chillota.-—The capital city of the department of its name located next to the south or left margin of the river Aconcagua by the 32° 52' Lat. and 71° 17' Lon., in the middle of one of the most beautiful and fertile valleys of Chile, varying its perspective by the E. the nearby hills extended to the south, where it discovers the remarkable peak called appropriately Campana de Quillota; while by the N. it slides through a wide and open bed that river between which stands the gracious hill of Moyaca, as a watchtower, and from whose top is covered by a glance the city and the whole valley. The plane of the population is 124 meters above the Pacific level and is cut by straight streets of ten meters wide in the direction of the cardinal points, forming 50 blocks or paintings of 116 meters per side. Almost in its center has a beautiful square, on whose eastern side there existed at the north end a convent of Jesuits, applied today to a useful end, and to the south you see the church of Santo Domingo; on the north side contains public buildings, and in the west the parish church. This square recalls the fact of the prison in it of the Minister of War Don Diego Portales, in the military motin of June 3, 1837, when he went there to a body of the expedition that was to open the war against the Peruvian-bolivian Confederation. It has a population of 9,214 inhabitants, free schools and a secondary school, civil registration offices, mail and telegraph, a good hospital, principalised in 1857, hotels, churches of San Agustín, San Francisco, La Merced and those mentioned in the parish and Santo Domingo, with other Catholic and Protestant religious institutions; several industrial and credit establishments, &c. It enjoys a very soft, benign and healthy temperament, and it encloses and is surrounded by orchards that produce excellent fruits, such as the delicious chirimoya (Anona cherimolia), lucuma, beautiful outdoor flowers, &c. Primitively, before the entrance of the Spaniards, there was in these places an indigenous population center that was supposed to be a colony of the Incas of Peru. Contiguous to it, Governor Garcia Ramon established in 1605 a factory of syrups, which successively concentrated around it a group of inhabitants, whose base the viceroy of Peru Count of Castellar planned to found a town in 1675 but, although this idea was approved by real order of 1678, it did not take effect until 1717, in which President Don José of Santiago Concha made his foundation on November 11th. villa of San Martín de la Concha, granted later on October 17, 1721 coat of arms with three lilies flowers and with a shell for chimera. But at that time the work was incomplete, and it did not come to be regularized, but by Manso and Velasco at the end of his government in 1745, as he put it from Lima in a letter to the King of 18 March of the following year. In 6 August 1822 he was granted the title and denomination of city of San Martín de Quillota. It contains a municipality whose territory of action extends over the sub-delegations of Mollaca or Moyaca, the Contiguous Railway Station, San Francisco and the Market, within the city, of San Pedro and La Palma. It takes 55 kilometers to the NE of the city of Valparaíso and 129 to the NO. of Santiago; it leaves 37 kilometers to the E. the station of Llaillay. The name is not Araucano; it seems to come from quilluta, walking in tune, voice of Aymara, ancient language of Peru.

The geographer Luis Risopatrón also described Quillota in his book Diccionario Jeográfico de Chile in 1924:

Chillota (City) 32° 54' 71° 16' It consists of a cincuentena of apples cut in a straight angle by streets of 10 m wide, grouped around a beautiful square, at about 124 m altitude, to the S of the small hill of Macaya, in a feraz plain of the margin E of the river Aconcagua; all kinds of fruit trees are cultivated in the plain, it was planted in it the first chirimo cotton that was in Chile. Before the entrance of the Spaniards, there was in these places an indigenous population center, which was supposed to be a colony of the Incas of Peru; it established in them in 1605, Governor García Ramón, a jarcias factory, which concentrated around it a group of inhabitants, whose base was planned to found a village in 1675. Although this idea was approved by real order of 1678, it did not take effect until 1717, in which President José de Santiago Concha made his foundation, with the title of villa of San Martin de la Concha; he was granted the title of city San Martin de Quillota on August 6, 1822 i in 1857 arrived the trains of the port of Valparaiso. An annual population increase has been recorded in the period 1895-1907 of 1.46%, with a proportion of alphabets on the latter date of 54.4 per cent. A mild, benign and healthy mui temperament has been scored in 3 years of observations 37.5° i -0.5 ° C, as maximum and minimum temperatures i as annual averages 14,4° C for temperature, 14.5° C for daily oscillation, 3,8 for nebulosity (0-10) i 420,3 mm for the fallen water, having rejistrated 500,2 mm daily.

Demographics

According to the data collected by the final results of the 2017 Population and Housing Census of the National Institute of Statistics, the commune has an area of 302 km² and a population of 90,500 people. Of the total population, 11,981 people are over 65 years of age.

Meteorology and climatology

The city of Quillota has a climate with a long dry season. Quillota's climate can be classified as Mediterranean with oceanic influence (Csb), according to the Köppen climate classification. The average annual maximum temperature is 21.1 °C and the average minimum is 7.9 °C. Annual rainfall is the wettest month of June with an accumulated 100.9 mm.

The city is located in the valley of the Aconcagua river. Looking west of the city is the beginning of the coastal mountain range with La Campana hill (1880 m s. n. m.). To the east the city is enclosed by mountains parallel to the coast (north-south direction) and to the north, due to the curvature of the river, the El Melón slope. This enclosure opens slightly towards the south and only looking towards the southwest are there no mountains or large hills, since the Aconcagua river curves again before flowing into the Pacific Ocean (Con Con). With respect to the meteorological systems known as segregated lows (or high-altitude cold core), a unique situation arises, due to the high altitude of Cerro La Campana, these are activated and can generate electrical storms in that area.

During the winter season, the entry of low coastal clouds is normal a couple of days after being present in the coastal zone. In summer it is more frequent to observe a large number of clear days.

The intensity of the rain is variable. The transience with which the frontal systems deposit rainfall in the city of Quillota and surroundings tends to be a common characteristic. One of the most important factors is the ENSO (El Niño southern oscillation), depending on its state, there is a high probability of suffering great variations in rainfall during the winter.

Average climate parameters of Quillota, ChileChile
Month	Ene.	Feb.	Mar.	Open up.	May.	Jun.	Jul.	Ago.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Annual
Temp. max. abs. (°C)	41.5	44.2	42.4	39.2	30.5	25.4	25.9	31.2	32.8	33.7	37.2	40.6	44.2
Average temperature (°C)	30.2	30.7	27.4	23.8	19.2	15.4	14.5	15.6	18.6	23.2	26.4	28.1	21.4
Average temperature (°C)	24.4	24.1	19.8	16.7	13.5	9.3	8.8	10.6	12.7	16.4	20.4	22.5	14.6
Temp. medium (°C)	18.6	18.4	14.1	10.6	7.7	5.1	4.7	5.5	6.8	11.5	13.4	16.9	9.8
Temp. min. abs. (°C)	5.5	4.6	2.1	-0.5	-4.7	-5.9	-5.2	-4.7	-2.8	-0.3	2.2	4.4	-5.9
Total precipitation (mm)	0.5	1.8	2.5	19.7	77.6	112.5	96.9	72.3	26.1	13.5	6.1	1.3	430.8
Precipitation days (≥ 1 mm)	0	0	1	2	7	12	9	7	3	1	1	0	41
Source:

Economy

In 2018, the number of companies registered in Quillota was 2,416. The Economic Complexity Index (ECI) in the same year was 1.25, while the economic activities with the highest Revealed Comparative Advantage index (RCA) were Social Services without Accommodation (161.44), Bean or Bean Cultivation (57.69) and Operation of Specialized Facilities for Sports Practices (37.05).

Commerce and services

Commercially, Quillota has a very active center, where Condell, Blanco, Freire, O'Higgins, San Martín, Prat, Chacabuco, Maipú, La Concepción and Pudeto streets stand out, which have various shops and services.

It also has 3 shopping centers:

• Mall Paseo del Valle, has varied shops distributed on 6 levels, underground parking, a Unimarc supermarket, a multistore Paris, a dining yard with Doggis and Tarragona, plus Doggis iced on the first floor. Also the Cine Paseo del Valle with 4 rooms, 2 of which are in 3D format.
• Portal Quillota, has a supermarket Santa Isabel and a home and construction shop Easy. Also a pharmacy and a motor.
• Paseo Shopping Mall Quillota, with acclaimed shops: Tottus, Sodimac Homecenter, La Polar, cinepolis, food court, Sportlife gym and varied shops.

Within the hotel services, there is:

• Hotel Open.
• Boston Hotel.
• Hostage El Eden.
• Alberdi Hostage.
• Hotel Palmeras.
• Hotel Kaiser.
• Hostal Amigos.
• Cabins Emporio San Isidro.
• Cabins Fundo El Grillo.

In addition, being the head city of the homonymous province, it has various state services, including Mineduc, SAG, Minagri, Indap, MOP, DGA.

Tourism

Quillota Arms Square.

Quillota Arms Square.

Within the tourist field we find places of recreation open to the general public, such as:

• Plaza de Armas de Quillota: it is inserted in the very heart of the commune. Its surroundings are the San Martín de Tours parish, the Santo Domingo Convent, the Provincial Government, the Ilustre Municipality of Quillota, etc. It has a great fallen cypress, in the times that affected the area in the 1980s, which was cut down by the community, as a testimony to it. The Odeon is also donated to the city by the Italian community. It is a place where it is possible to appreciate tree species typical of the valley, such as Las Palmeras in the center of the city, as well as sculptures that represent the four seasons of the year.

• Municipal Park "Aconcagua": it is located in La Concepción street, almost on the Aconcagua River. Leisure center with children's games, barbecue equipment, large green spaces, etc.

• Boco: (from Mapudungun: Boco‘Sapo’), remote rural town a few kilometers from the city center. To access it you must cross the vehicle/peatonal bridge that is at the end of La Concepción Street, reaching this small town. In it it is possible to find the "Quebrada del Ají", where you will find the ecotourism center "El Grillo", the airfield of Quillota and the tourist center and cottages "El Edén", which has single and double cabins for customers, with private pool, spa, gym, etc., and also a park open to the community, with restaurant and a large swimming pool. Near Boco you can find the Rautén sector, with a large grove and a beautiful tranque to spend a day with the family.

Quillota Museum. Colonial House built in 1772.

• Historical-Archeological Museum of Quillota and Melvin Jones Public Library of Quillota: The Historical-Archeological Museum of Quillota (MHAQ) was officially created on December 5, 1997, at the initiative of the Workshop on Research and Dissemination of the History and Geography of Quillota, to rescue the historical and archaeological heritage of the city. It currently works, together with the Public Library, within the Colonial House (MN), in San Martín N.o 336.

• "San Isidro" Military Field: military enclosure, located in the area of San Isidro, in Quillota, which was formerly the School of Cavalry. It has a museum of old cars and carriages. You can also enjoy its gardens and parks with years old trees, like a great gomero that is inside. It has beautiful structures, such as the chapel, built in 1892 and open to the community of Quillota in 1917, of semi-Baroque style (indefinite), with sculptures and elements brought mainly from Cuzco (Ecuador), among other things.

• Botanic Garden "El Escalante": is 1.8 km from the town of El Boco. Created more than a decade ago, its specialty is Chilean and other American countries, where plants are in natural habitat. It has more than 1000 species of cactaceae on the ground, in addition to a collection of Chilean orchids in habitat (15 species), and Chilean bulbs. There is also a field of native palm trees and shrubs, exotic trees and a trail to go all over the place, which includes a ravine with running water and native plants.

• Rodeo School "El Huaso": located in the rural sector of La Palma, is located this school of rodeo, in a beautiful environment in which native trees stand out, such as Chilean palm, pines, araucarias, among others. It has adult and child programs for both men and women. Its purpose is to strengthen, promote and cultivate the Huasian traditions and mainly the national sport of Chile. It also has Creole games, activities related to the countryside and visits to museums.

• Casa y Museo del Huaso: located in the central sector of the commune, in Calle Blanco. It presents the history of the huaso in Chile and the Central Zone. Visits can be made from Monday to Friday.

• Estadio Bicentenario Lucio Fariña Fernández: refurbished sports hall in 2010, named after the sports journalist born in the city. It is home to the local football club, San Luis de Quillota. It has an estimated capacity of 7500 spectators. It includes lighting on the roof structure, perimeter lighting, electronic board, audio system, individual seats (butacas) and a synthetic court of 105 x 68 meters as provided by FIFA, with capacity to be used 8 hours a day. In addition, it contemplates a stage for artistic events, with camarines, administration room and press room, includes two gyms, medical examination room and first aid and rooms for the practice of alternative sports, such as martial arts. It also includes the empowerment of an archaeological exhibition room, where it is expected to expose the remains of the Cultural Complex Aconcagua, Bato and Inca, which were rescued during the construction process of the enclosure.

• Horses "Old Pichón": rides through the natural landscapes of the city, passing through majestic and pristine landscapes. It also offers walks in wagons and leases for marriages and/or events.

• Center "Sport Club Q": center of events and sports complex, which is located on the 8th whereabouts of the road to La Cruz, on the side of Route 60 CH. It features soccer, tennis courts, swimming pools, restaurant, spa, gym, sports schools and event rooms.

• Tourist Center "El Eden": event center, park, picnic, swimming pools, cottages, forest, games and recreation. It is located on the way to the Boco sector, and in it is also the arts school.

• Centro Cultural Leopoldo Silva Reynoard: cultural space, where plays and exhibitions take place, among other artistic manifestations.

Projects

In the field of health, the Quillota Petorca Biprovincial Hospital is under construction, which is located at the end of O'Higgins street, upon reaching Route 60 CH. Parallel to this, Calle O'Higgins will be refurbished. The municipality has requested that the current building of the San Martín Hospital be delivered to it, once vacated, to enable a Comprehensive Care Center for the Elderly there.

On the other hand, as initiatives of a commercial nature, the following stand out:

• Paseo Outlet Quillota (Herboso corner Diego Portales).
• Paseo Shopping Mall Quillota (habilitation of more premises).
• Plazacenter Quillota (San Martín corner Diego Echeverría).

Education

Quillota has the following higher education centers:

• UCValpo Technical Training Centre.
• CFT Cenco.
• CFT Educap.
• Instituto Profesional Los Lagos.
• DuocUC Professional Institute.
• Faculty of Agronomy of the PUCV.

Connectivity

Quillota belongs to the "Quillota - La Cruz - La Calera" (or Great Quillota). It is separated from the commune of La Cruz by only one street (limited at the whereabouts 8 of Avenida 21 de Mayo, at the height of Lorca Prieto street). The city can be accessed by car via route 60 CH.

Roadway

Route 60-CH runs parallel to the city of Quillota, a highway that connects the cities of Valparaíso and Los Andes, reaching the border with Argentina at the Los Libertadores border crossing. The interurban buses that connect Greater Valparaíso with the Aconcagua Valley circulate along this road, as well as the cars of those who use the Los Libertadores pass to visit Argentina, especially the nearby city of Mendoza. It connects from Quillota to Greater Valparaíso using the so-called "vía Aeropuerto", which is none other than route 64 (former route 60-CH); It is the route used by the Sol del Pacífico buses, which connect the Aconcagua Valley with the Capital of Buenos Aires, passing through Quillota, Calera and La Cruz.

It is also connected with Limache through the former Route CH-62, a road used by rural buses such as Dhino's, Limequi, Carolina del Valle, Comercial Guerra, Transendero, which link the city with the nearby cities La Calera, La Cruz, Hijuelas, Nogales and Limache, in addition to having routes to rural sectors of the commune, such as Boco, Manzanar, Colmo, Rautén, La Palma, etc. This route is also used by the Bus+Metro service, initially operated by Limequi and later by Agdabus, in partnership with Merval, to link the Limache Station (end of the tracks) with the cities of La Calera and La Cruz (Bus+Metro Calera) and Quillota (Bus+Metro Quillota).

Within the city, there is also the Quibús company, which has routes within the urban radius of the commune and the southern sector of La Cruz.

In the eastern sector of the city, more specifically in the Industrial Park, is the Quillota Bus Terminal. In this place the routes that connect Quillota with the Metropolitan Region begin and end. The lines that operate are: Turbus, Pullman, Expreso Aconcagua, Paravías and Los Halcones.

Railway

Former Quillota railway station (today demolished).

Old Corvi station (today demolished), towards 1980.

Quillota station model, in Tourist Office.

In the heart of Quillota was the Quillota station of the Valparaíso to Santiago Railroad, inaugurated in 1856 (7 years before the inauguration of the full service). For 130 years it was an important point on the route that linked the capital of the country with its main port, and after the Queronque railway accident in 1986, it began to fall into disuse until its closure in 1995. Due to the modernization of the avenue Condell, in 2004 the station was demolished and the track relocated. The new Quillota station was built next to Ariztía street, and consists of a single passenger platform (at the same height as the Merval stations) and a large number of detours, used by freight trains, which are currently the only that circulate on the road.

Near the junction with Limache, is the San Pedro station, in the town of the same name, and adjacent to the Cousiño patio, where the branch to Quintero separates, currently used by FEPASA freight trains, mainly those that serve service to the Andina division of Codelco, transporting copper concentrate from Saladillo to the Ventanas smelter.

In 1958 the Corvi whereabouts were inaugurated, to grant access to the railway to the homonymous sector, close to the center of the city. It was also demolished in 2004, but was not built in a new location. There are plans to rebuild it before a possible extension of the Merval service.

Despite the fact that passenger services were suppressed in 1995 due to financial problems, the cities of Quillota, La Calera and La Cruz exert pressure to achieve the extension of the Merval to these communes. Although the project has been rejected twice, the regional government announced in 2014 the delivery of funds for a new study, this time taking advantage of the operational balance reached by the Tren Limache Puerto, an Efe Valparaíso company that manages the Merval, and the high demand for the Bus+Metro service. The extension, if carried out, projects the reconstruction (or rehabilitation) of the three stations of Quillota, the station of La Cruz and the main station of La Calera, remodeling of the Limache station and modal interchange services with buses in each of them.

Media

Newspapers

Quillota has the newspapers El Observador, which covers the provinces of Quillota, Petorca and Marga Marga, and La Estrella de Quillota, which circulates in the provinces of Quillota and Petorca.

Radio stations

It also has several radio stations:

FM

• 88.7 MHz Radio 88.7
• 89.1 MHz Radio Crystal
• 90.5 MHz Beat FM
• 91.5 MHz We are FM (Limache)
• 91.9 MHz Radio Carnival
• 92.7 MHz Nexo FM
• 95.7 MHz Sweet FM
• 97.1 MHz Radio Raudal (Nogales)
• 97.7 MHz FM Okey
• 101.5 MHz Radio Quillota
• 102.3 MHz Radio Sugar
• 103.7 MHz Cosmos (La Calera)
• 104.7 MHz Libra FM
• 105.5 MHz Radio La Calera (La Calera)
• 107.3 MHz Radio Putupur

AM

• 1530 kHz Radio Nexo

Television

VHF

• 2 - The Network
• 4 - TV+
• 5 - Mega
• 7 - Telecanal.
• 9 - Channel 13
• 10 - Chilevision
• 12 - TVN

Cable

• 9 - Fifth Division (VTR)
• 793 - Local Canal (Mundo)

Sports

In 2002 and 2007, it was the main venue of the Military Equestrian World Championship held in Chile. The main area of competition was the former School of Armored Cavalry (currently based in the city of Iquique), today Campo Militar "San Isidro" of the Army General Ricardo Izurieta Caffarena, which has the Grenadier Regiment and the Riding School.

For its part, the city was the sub-venue of the ODESUR 2014 games that were played in the country. In the Presidential Escort Regiment no. 1 "Grenaderos" all the equestrian competitions of the South American event were held. As well as it will host the horse riding competitions in the 2023 Pan American Games.

Professional Soccer

The city not only has the same aspects as any other, but it is also the cradle of San Luis de Quillota, which although it is a private institution, its name and its colors (Yellow and Black) are rooted in the city and its people. Today, San Luis is participating in the second division of professional soccer in Chile and its matches have an average audience of 2,800 people who witness and support the Canarian team at the Lucio Fariña Fernández stadium as locals.

Amateur soccer

Manuela Figueroa participated in the Fourth Division between 1999 and 2000, and in the Third Division in 2001

Garnish

Rama	Prosecution
Chilean Army	Presidential Escort No. 1 "Greats" Army Equitation School

Administration

Consistorial building of the Ilustre Municipality of Quillota.

Quillota belongs since the parliamentary elections of 2017 to Electoral District No. 6 for the election of Deputies and to the 6th Senate District for senators. Until the electoral period of 2013, it belonged to the old district No. 10 and to the 5th Senatorial Circumscription (Valparaíso Cordillera).

It is represented in the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress in the period 2018-2022 by the deputies:

• Diego Ibáñez (Social Convergence)
• Maria Francisa Bello (Social Convergence)
• Carolina Marzán (PPD)
• Nelson Venegas (PS)
• Gaspar Rivas (PDG)
• Camila Flores (RN)
• Andrés Longton (RN)
• Chiara Barchiesi (Republican Party)

In turn, it is represented in the Senate during the period 2018-2026 by the senators:

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

The Illustrious Municipality of Quillota is directed by the mayor Óscar Calderón Sánchez (Ind), in office since 2021, elected in the 2021 municipal elections to assume his first term in charge of the municipality. The councilors elected for the period 2021-2024, after the same election process are:

• Daniela Meriño Cisternas (PCCh)
• Silvio Ibaceta Astudillo (PCCh)
• Regina Brito Jeria (RN)
• Roberto Vergara Saavedra (DC)
• Eduardo Ormazabal Mayol (Ind)
• Karen Madrid Oyarzo (Ind/PPD)
• Carlos Pacheco Díaz (PR)
• Ramón Balbontín Leiva (PR)

Recognized characters

• María del Carmen Benavides and Mujica, called "Beatita Benavides", "sierva de Dios".
• Carmela Carvajal, wife of the national hero Arturo Prat Chacón.
• Alfonso Vargas Lyng, Chilean politician. Born and raised in Valparaíso, he studied 4 years at the Rafael Ariztía Institute.
• José de Santiago Concha, founder of the village of Quillota on November 11, 1717.
• Lucio Fariña, a sports commentator honored with the name of the city's main sports stadium.
• Santiago Amengual, Chilean military, known for having been the first commander of the 7th "Esmeralda" Line Regiment.
• Iván Mayo, a Chilean former footballer, one of the first to play abroad.
• Francisco "El Gato" Silva, a Chilean footballer, known for annoting the prison with which the Chilean football team crowned champion of the 2016 Centenary American Cup.
• Gunther Uhlmann, a Chilean mathematician who has focused his research on the reverse problem, the image, the microlocal analysis and the equation on partial derivatives.
• Elmina Moisan, a Chilean painter of the 13th generation, considered the "woman artist who best painted in Chile".
• Patricio Yáñez, although born in Valparaíso, lived in Quillota between 1977 and 1982, where he played at the local club San Luis de Quillota.
• Eduardo Cortés Inostroza, winner of the Global Teacher Prize Chile 2017, recognized as the best professor in Chile 2017, according to Choose Educate and Varkey Foundation.
• Luis Mella Gajardo, surgeon and mayor of Quillota with the largest period between 1992 and 2021.
• Maria Fernanda Bertero, Chilean television actress.