Analysis · Key figures

Findings

Figures that emerge when the monitor’s dimensions are cross-referenced: pollution, direct awards, supplier concentration and financial dependence. Each one links to its source.

La Serena awards more than half its purchases through direct contracting

By direct award, without competitive bidding (2024)

Entities with final environmental sanctions from the SMA

1.001 final sanctions · 153.079 UTA in fines

The actor with the widest reach in the country: WOM

The few economic actors that span all of Chile

Comunas that live almost entirely off the Municipal Common Fund

Over 90% of their revenue comes from the State: almost no own resources

Construction jobs promised by the investment projects in the pipeline

Labor promised by active SEIA projects (PRISMA) — the promise, not what's already built

WOM · 169 comunas

Who requests meetings with the most municipalities in Chile

The actor that registered Lobby Law meetings with the most municipalities in the country

Municipalities that don't publish a single council minute

With no minutes published there is no way to follow what the council agrees

Investment in projects under review or newly approved in SEIA

Half a trillion dollars in the pipeline: where investment and conflict concentrate

81.608 families

Families living in encampments

Spread across 193 comunas, per the MINVU survey

Providencia leads environmental sanctions — the headquarters effect

The comuna is the company's declared domicile, not always where the damage occurs

Companies that sell to the municipality and also request meetings with it

Municipal suppliers that also registered lobby meetings with the same comuna: a double tie to the authority that buys

Maule: the country's fastest-growing comuna

Population since 2002, per INE

San Gregorio has 651 inhabitants and projects promising 22 times that number in jobs

An energy or mining project promising many times the comuna's population

Laguna Blanca: the comuna that lost the most population

Lost population since 2002, per INE

From Las Condes to Alto Biobío: the index splits Chile in two

The gap between the first and the last in the index

Alhué: the biggest gain in autonomy from the Common Fund

Cut its dependence on the State since 2001, the largest drop in the country

Natales is Chile's largest comuna — bigger than all of Costa Rica

A single comuna the size of a country

Why Sierra Gorda tops crimes per inhabitant

A floating mining population inflates the rate: it is not comparable with the rest

Lo Barnechea racks up the Comptroller's gravest findings

Highly complex findings from the CGR Municipal Observatory

General Lagos has the country's highest school dropout

Dropout during the 2025 school year

Copiapó concentrates the most threatened species

In conservation category (critical, endangered or vulnerable), per SEIA project baselines

Tortel is the mainland comuna furthest from a university

No higher education of its own; the nearest campus is in Aysén

$18.783.239/inhab.

Río Verde is the comuna with the biggest budget per inhabitant

The other extreme of municipal inequality

Santiago is the densest comuna in the country

Inhabitants per square kilometre

Comunas without a single higher-education campus

Universities, professional institutes and technical training centers are concentrated in a handful of the country's comunas

Melipilla, Chile's community-radio capital

Stations with a studio in the community itself, not in the regional capital

Independencia: the comuna with the largest share of foreign population

Findings are detected automatically from the monitor's dimensions (finance, procurement, environment, health, safety, power) and ranked by relevance. It is a living snapshot: every data refresh brings new findings.