San Gregorio 5.01

San Gregorio is a comuna, mistakenly translated as commune, in the far south of Chile. It is part of Magallanes Region and Province, and is administered by the municipality of the same name located in Punta Delgada, the principal town in the commune (the coordinates are those of Punta Delgada).The comuna is on the north shore of the Strait of Magellan; between the Strait, to the south, and the border with Argentina, to the north. At the Primera Angostura, south of the town of Punta Delgada, there is a ferry crossing to Primavera commune on Tierra del Fuego Island.FeaturesIn the settlement of Estancia San Gregorio, some 40km southwest of Punta Delgada, there is an estancia, and several imposing buildings dating from 1882.Nearby are wrecks of two 19th-century cargo ships. was a sailing tea clipper, built in London in 1869 and beached at San Gregorio in 1896. Amadeo was a steamship, built in Liverpool in 1884 and beached at San Gregorio in 1932.DemographicsAccording to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, San Gregorio spans an area of 6883.7sqkm and has 1,158 inhabitants (886 men and 272 women), making the commune an entirely rural area. The population fell by 29.5% (485 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.