mostly European settlers, who had been attracted by the sub-divisions of the lands of the Mapuche who were sent to "reductions", declared by the government prosecutors and by the construction of the railway.
The year 1908, the city suffered a fire that consumed more than 20 blocks, one third of the city then. Then come the neighborhoods of Pueblo Nuevo and Santa Rosa to the north and east which are filled quickly. In the mid 1920s, when Temuco reaches 30,000, starts partitioning the "German Quarter", the main road passes Avenue become Germany. Also at that time, the road begins to urbanize Cholchol giving rise to the Avenida Pedro de Valdivia.
In 1919, he opened a line of trams Electric, which used six cars acquired used and rolling the Anglo-Argentine Tramway Co. of Buenos Aires . The project was a joint initiative with Rengo , also bought U.S. teams (the St.Louis Car Co.) in Argentina. Later, the city acquired used cars, German manufacturing two floors, the signature Santiago CET & L. After World War I, an independent Chilean firm, the Compa��a General de Electricidad Industrial, based in Santiago, acquired the rights to the electricity and also to manage the provincial electric trams, as he did in Temuco, in 1920.
In 1960, the city of Temuco totaled 72,000, a figure that would rise to 110,000 in 1970, due to a large wave of immigration due to various circumstantial facts, such as the earthquake that struck the south of the country in 1960 and the creation of the first University of Concepci�n south.
In 1982 the population reached 189,000 people, both urban and rural areas and 243,880 in 1992. The last census conducted in 2002, the population increases to 304,000, including the town of Padre Las Casas . In the past 20 years the city has experienced tremendous growth and real estate business that still does not stop, even though the great earthquake of February 27, 2010 that devastated central and southern Chile
