of water and firewood . As I remember it, was the Pirate's Cave , located on the cliff Punta Liles .
During the following years Quintero thrived on agriculture and livestock , not being used by the Spanish seaport. The first to do so were the Jesuit priests who took by Quintero their estates producing sector. By the year 1822 comes to Quintero Vice Admiral Lord Thomas Alexander Cochrane , Earl of Dundonald, where he would set his residence. While Cochrane arrives English writer Mary Graham in his book " Diary of my residence in Chile ", in a very special highlights the beauty of Quintero ... "Region surrounded with lush landscapes and lakes they inhabit various aquatic species." In the same year that Mary Graham was in Quintero, the town was shaken by a violent earthquake very destructive.
On November 24 of 1865 , the President Don Jose Joaquin Perez , issues a decree which states in its first article: "Believe the Major Port of Quintero in the bay that bears his name." This date is the official anniversary of the port and city of Quintero.
Important in the history of the town is the arrival in 1871 of Don Luis Cousino Squella , owning extensive grounds of the peninsula . Manager precursor communal progress in turning this place into the spa of the province of Valparaiso . All his work was followed by his family in the passing years.
In 1906 there was a very violent Tsunami and the survivors took refuge on the summit of Cerro La Cruz a few hundred meters and that giving the chapel at the summit now. 2
Quintero Air Base
In 1921, the Navy established a naval air station in Quintero Amphibious type, which moves all the equipment and staff that was originally intended for the poor facilities that until then existed on the beach The Torpederas in Valparaiso . In 1930 he created the Chilean Air Force , so the base becomes part of this institution as Quintero Air Base. In the decades of the 50s and 60s, by the number of
