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Concepcion

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Concepción 

a city in Chile and the administrative center of Concepción Province. Population, 191,700 (1969). The city has a port (Talcahuano) on the right bank of the estuary of the Río Bío Bío and is a railroad junction. The major industries are wool and cotton textiles and food processing, including flour milling, sugar refining, and canning. The University of Concepción was established in 1919. The city was founded in 1550; in 1960 it was devastated by an earthquake. Coal is mined in the surrounding area, and there is a metallurgical plant (Huachipato).
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Maria de los Mercedes, Maria del Pilar, Maria de la Concepcion, Maria del Rosario.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
On the coast of Chile, a few leagues north of Concepcion, the Beagle one day passed through great bands of muddy water, exactly like that of a swollen river; and again, a degree south of Valparaiso, when fifty miles from the land, the same appearance was still more extensive.
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