1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Chile
Compare this sourced profile of Puente Alto, Chile before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Puente Alto—568,106, America/Santiago, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: settlement in Chile.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Puente Alto is GeoNames ID 3875024. Its recorded administrative path is Provincia de Cordillera → Santiago Metropolitan → Chile, and GeoNames classifies the place as a second-order administrative seat. Puente Alto occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2022-08-24; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Puente Alto ranks 983 by recorded population. Inside the 3 selected Chile entries it ranks 2; inside the 198 entries in its broad region it ranks 160. Its 568,106 population value is 1.00 times the 568,106 median for the country cohort and 0.70 times the 816,326 regional median. Puente Alto is rank 2 among the 3 selected Chile entries, so a percentage band would overstate this small cohort. Puente Alto's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Puente Alto's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Santiago at 18.473 km with 4,837,295 recorded people; Maipú at 20.621 km with 503,635 recorded people; Córdoba at 647.032 km with 2,106,734 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 628.559 km. Compared with Santiago, Puente Alto's recorded population is 0.12 times as large. Against Puente Alto, Santiago follows Provincia de Santiago → Santiago Metropolitan → Chile in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Chile cohort, uses the shared America/Santiago identifier, and carries capital of a political entity rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Puente Alto's. Against Puente Alto, Maipú follows Provincia de Santiago → Santiago Metropolitan → Chile in the source. Its point has higher latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Chile cohort, uses the shared America/Santiago identifier, and carries populated place rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Puente Alto's. Against Puente Alto, Córdoba follows Departamento de Capital → Cordoba → Argentina in the source. Its point has higher latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the selected Argentina cohort rather than Chile, uses America/Argentina/Cordoba instead of America/Santiago, and carries first-order administrative seat rather than second-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is above Puente Alto's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 251 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Puente Alto's nearest-coordinate gap falls between the tightest tenth and quarter of the atlas. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 3875024, the coordinate pair 33.6117 / 70.5758, country rank 2 of 3, and neighbor GeoNames 3871336 at 18.473 km bind Puente Alto to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Puente Alto's reference point is 33.6117° south and 70.5758° west. The IANA identifier America/Santiago is shared by 3 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA2 is shared by 341 rows. Puente Alto's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Puente Alto's point falls in the middle-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Puente Alto's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Puente Alto, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Puente Alto's closest other entries in this atlas are Santiago (18.473 km), Maipú (20.621 km), Córdoba (647.032 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2022-08-24; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.