(the V Valparaíso Region (Spanish pronunciation: [balpaɾaˈiso], Spanish: V Región de Valparaíso) is one of Chile’s 15 ‘first order administrative divisions’)
(with the country’s 3rd highest population of 1,539,852 million in 2002 and 3rd smallest area of 16,396.1 km2 (6,331 sq mi), the region is Chile’s 2nd most densely populated after the ‘Santiago Metropolitan Region’ to the ‘southeast’)
(its ‘capital’ is the ‘port city’ of ‘Valparaíso’)
(other important cities include ‘Viña del Mar’, ‘Quillota’, ‘Quilpué’, and ‘Villa Alemana’)