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461:(until 2001 called Navarino, capital Puerto Williams), area 14,146 km (5,462 sq mi), population as of census 2002: 2,262, of which 1,952 are in the capital. As a commune, Cabo de Hornos 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 2016-2020 alcalde is Patricio Fernández (PDC).The communal council has the following members:
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Municipality of Cabo de Hornos governs both Antártica and Cabo de Hornos from Cabo de Hornos, making it the only Chilean municipality to currently administer more than one commune.
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Australis, which included the Southern part of South America, Tierra del Fuego Archipelago, and all southern undiscovered territories (Terra Australis Ignota). This
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Fernando Valdebenito Contreras (PS) Ángela Barría Barrientos (RN) Juan Velásquez (PS) Carolina Guenel González (DC) Francis Delgado Ibaceta (RN) Paola Speake Ojeda (DC)
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Location in the Magallanes and Antártica Chilena Region
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The South Pole: Eduardo Frei Montalva Station (Chile)
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Antarctica claim by Chile, as seen on a monument in
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1675:Chilean Antarctic Territory
1527:Chilean Antarctic Territory
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915:Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve
910:Instituto Antártico Chileno
848:"The Treaty of Tordesillas"
663:British Antarctic Territory
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48:Provincia Antártica Chilena
29:Chilean Antarctic Territory
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1623:Brazilian Antarctica
1520:Queen Elizabeth Land
1458:Argentine Antarctica
654:Argentine Antarctica
470:Commune of Antártica
267: • Density
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875:, Megalithic Portal
768:"Chile Summer Time"
723:on 14 November 2010
673:Antarctic Peninsula
644:Antártica (Commune)
539:Villa Las Estrellas
447:claim of Antarctica
425:. The province is
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1665:Provinces of Chile
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951:Provinces of Chile
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