It was founded on October 11th of 1742 by Don Jos� Manso de Velasco , and covers an area of 1,338 km2 . According to the 2002 census, has 108,540 inhabitants.
It borders the following municipalities:
* to the north by the municipality of Maria Pinto
* communes in the south of San Pedro and Alhu�
* by eastern province Talagante
* on the west, the town of San Antonio in the Valpara�so Region .
History
The area is inhabited since the last glaciation (Approx 11,000 BC. . Thence groups hunters and gatherers belonging to the Archaic Period of America made their entry into the valleys. Subsequently, in relation to the Early Ceramic period may be found vestiges are continued by Bato Cultures and Llolleo . In the fifteenth century comes into contact with the Inca culture and this set Talagante one mitimae ruled by PrinceTala Sing Ilabe . Soon after the Incas still entered the Spanish, whom the called localwingka in Mapudungun . Mapuches living in this area were called picones orpromaucaes . ethnic center of Picones most prominent seems to have settled in the payment of Pico , located near Melipilla . Precisely, seventy Indians were entrusted picones Bishop Rodrigo Gonzalez Marmolejo, by Valdivia. 1 later had the enjoyment of the parcel, Antonio Gonz�lez Montero, nephew of the church. 1 In the eighteenth century, there Pomaire near the town of Pico, located on the estate of same name, about 8 km northwest of Melipilla ( 33 � 37'31 .28 "S 71 � 16'16 .19 "W ).
Probably Pico highlight was a header from a chieftain of that name appeared among the "heads" exalted the Kingdom, in times of Valdivia.
On another note, the same conquistador Juan Bautista Pastene donated a parcel, in 1550, which included
"The chiefs called Antequilica and Chumavo or Catalogna with all Indians ... they have their land in the province and
