San Pedro de la Paz is a
Chilean "comuna" located in the Concepción Province, in the
Biobío Region in Chile
. San
Pedro de la Paz has some 80,447 inhabitants according to the 2002
national census. In 2005, the Pedro Aguirre Cerda avenue, the main
avenue in the city, was completed. Most of the inhabitants of this
comuna commute daily to Concepción - either by car, bus or train -
over the Biobío river.
It is considerated as part of Greater
Concepción
conurbation.
San Pedro was established during the
Conquest of Chile first as fort
la
Candelaria which was destroyed following the death of
Governor Martín García
Óñez de Loyola in 1599. It was rebuilt as part of
La Frontera by
Alonso de Ribera as fort
San Pedro de
la Paz in 1603. A small settlement grew up around it. During
the
Chilean War of
Independence the town was burned in 1821, by the royalist
Juan Manuel Picó on the order
of
Vicente Benavides during the
Battle of San Pedro. The fort
was ruined by the
1835
Concepción earthquake.
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