The Origin Of High Bio Bio

The Origin of High Bio Bio. The reasons have always been the same. The geographic, ethnic and social were the arguments which support the idea of ​​shaping a new administrative-territorial unit in High Bio Bio, separating it from St. Barbara, the mother municipality.

The interest started back in the '80s when it was raised in a report by the National Planning Office (ODEPLAN) was shelved after somewhere.

In the '90s, the matter was again exposed, but now public. First it did in 1995 the then provincial governor Juan Carlos Coronata. Months later he did the late area MP, Wolf Octavio Jara, who even postulated a territorial change in the region by appending it with all the Bio Bio River basin from its origins in the lakes and Icalma Galletué of the commune of Lonquimay (Lake District).

The legislative proposal was part of the comprehensive development proposal called the High Bio Bio that later, with changes and amendments, took the form of Indigenous Development Area (IDA), first to be launched in the country. The let it fell to then-President Eduardo Frei in late March 1997, during the inauguration of the plant Pangue.

This mechanism involves the targeting of public action, which took the form of flagship projects such as the electrification of the country, improvement of health posts and schools, development of tourism. However, other proposals announced six years ago are still on hold, for example, the delivery of housing 300 (only a portion has been delivered) and the construction of Ralco Polytechnic High School.

But the idea of ​​the commune took off in January last year when talks began between Endesa Chile and the four families who rejected pehuenches give up their land for the Ralco plant, which were brokered by the Government through its Department of Development Regional. This is worth to say, after those affected filed a lawsuit against the Chilean state in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS human rights abuses.

It was these families during a meeting in Los Angeles, which made a specific request in this line as part of its package of proposals of general interest submitted to the authority.

The idea took hold in the coming months to the point that the proposal was incorporated in December, the government's bill to create new communities.

In Congress, the initiative recently sailed through expedited channels (in fact, took longer than the other three communes proposal) to get approved.