Ovalle, also known as La Perla del Limarí, is a city and the capital of the commune and the capital of the province of Limarí, one of the three provinces in which is divided administratively the Coquimbo Region. It is 412 kilometers north of Santiago and 86 kilometers from La Serena, the regional capital.It borders to the North with the districts of Coquimbo and Andacollo, East with Rio Hurtado and Monte Patria, Punitaqui and cinnamon South and to the West with the Pacific Ocean. Its Mayor is Claudio Renteria Larrondo.Integra No.8 Electoral District and belongs to the 4th constituency Senatorial.Nacida as village, the city was founded in 1831, under the provisional Government of José Tomás Ovalle, who owes its name. Currently it is estimated that the communal population reaches the 108,000 inhabitants.
