Editing Valparaíso (section)

==Demographics==
Although technically only Chile's sixth largest city, with an urban area population of 295,918 (296,655 in municipality<ref name="INE"/>), the [[Gran Valparaíso|Greater Valparaíso]] metropolitan area, including the neighborng cities of [[Viña del Mar]], [[Concón]], [[Quilpué]], and [[Villa Alemana]] is the second largest in the country (951,311 inhabitants).

According to the 2017 census of the [[National Statistics Institute (Chile)|National Statistics Institute]], the commune of Valparaíso spans an area of {{cvt|401.6|sqkm|0}} and has 296,655 inhabitants (144,945 men and 151,710 women). Of these, 295,918 (99.8%) lived in urban areas and 737 (0.2%) in [[rural area]]s. The population grew by 7.49% (20,673 persons) between the 2002 and 2017 censuses.<ref name="INE"/>

Residents of Valparaíso are commonly called ''[[porteño]]s'' (feminine: ''porteñas''), spanish for "port dweller".<ref name=nyt-2009nov>{{cite news |last=Gregory |first=Vanessa |title=Tastes of Newly Fashionable Valparaíso, Chile |date=November 8, 2009 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/travel/08journeys.html |access-date=2011-03-18 |archive-date=2010-11-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123125046/http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/travel/08journeys.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="stgotimes2011-01-21">{{cite news |last=Gabanski |first=Pepa |title=Old Prejudices Die Hard In Chile's Rival Coastal Cities: Viña and Valparaíso |newspaper=[[The Santiago Times]] |url=http://santiagotimes.cl/old-prejudices-die-hard-in-chiles-rival-coastal-cities-vina-and-valparaiso/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402093228/http://santiagotimes.cl/old-prejudices-die-hard-in-chiles-rival-coastal-cities-vina-and-valparaiso |archive-date=2 April 2015 |date=21 January 2011 |access-date=2017-03-28 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all}}</ref>