Maipú is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region, integrated into the Greater Santiago conurbation. It was founded on February 16, 1821 and it is the place of the Battle of Maipú (April 5, 1818), where Chile's independence was consolidated. Inhabitants are mostly part of a middle to upper-middle class young professionals.
According to the 2002 census, Maipú was the second largest commune in Chile, behind Puente Alto. However, the National Statistics Institute estimates that as of 2006, Maipú has surpassed the latter in population.


According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Maipú spans an area of and has 517,837 inhabitants (252,965 men and 254,872 women). Of these, 478.567 (94.3%) lived in urban areas and 38.271 (7.7%) in rural areas; with a population density of .

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