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[[Image:Faro de La Serena.jpg|thumb|258px|Faro of The City]]
{{Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
[[Image:La Serena-Coquimbo-02.jpg|thumb|258px|The city of La Serena with the port city of [[Coquimbo, Chile|Coquimbo]] in the background]]
| name = Coorparoo
[[Image:Plaza de Armas - La Serena.jpg|thumb|250px|Plaza de Armas]]
| city = Brisbane
| state = qld
| image = small_coorparoo_primary_school.jpg
| caption = Coorparoo Primary School
| lga = City of Brisbane
| postcode = 4151
| pop = 13243 (2001 census)
| area = 5.3
| est =
| propval = $459,000 <ref>[http://www.reiq.com.au/BuySellRent/community_view.asp?suburb_id=59 Coorparoo], accessed 27 November 2006</ref> - $2,000,000+
| stategov = [[Electoral district of Greenslopes|Greenslopes]]
| fedgov = [[Division of Griffith|Griffith]]
| dist1 = 4
| location1= [[Brisbane]]
| near-nw = [[East Brisbane, Queensland|East Brisbane]]
| near-n = [[Norman Park, Queensland|Norman Park]]
| near-ne = [[Norman Park, Queensland|Norman Park]]
| near-w = [[East Brisbane, Queensland|East Brisbane]]
| near-e = [[Camp Hill, Queensland|Camp Hill]]
| near-sw = [[Greenslopes, Queensland|Greenslopes]]
| near-s = [[Holland Park, Queensland|Holland Park]]
| near-se = [[Camp Hill, Queensland|Camp Hill]]
}}
'''La Serena''' ("the serene one") is the second oldest city in [[Chile]]. The city, located 471 km north of [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]], has a population of 147,815, according to the 2002 census. There are also 12,333 inhabitants of the immediately surrounding countryside. It is one of the fastest-growing areas of Chile, witnessing a population increase of 32.6% between [[1992]] and [[2002]].
'''Coorparoo''' is a southern [[suburb]] of [[Brisbane]], [[Queensland]], [[Australia]]. Its distance from the city is approximately four [[kilometre]]s. Surrounding suburbs include [[Camp Hill, Queensland|Camp Hill]], [[Greenslopes, Queensland|Greenslopes]], [[Holland Park, Queensland|Holland Park]], [[Norman Park, Queensland|Norman Park]] and [[Seven Hills, Queensland|Seven Hills]].
It was first founded by Spaniard Captain [[Juan Bohón]] in [[September 4]] [[1544]] on the orders of [[Pedro de Valdivia]] in order to provide a sea link between Santiago and [[Lima]]. In [[1549]] the town was totally destroyed by local Indians and re-founded the same year by Captain Francisco de Aguirre in a safer ___location. The town has retained its historic architecture and this, along with a selection of beaches (known as Avenida del Mar, "Sea Avenue"), has caused the city to become a significant tourist centre, attracting many foreigners (most of them Argentines from San Juan and Mendoza provinces) during January, and later Santiago residents fleeing February heat.
There has been some discussion over the origin of the name. Some believe it comes from the [[Indigenous Australians|Aboriginal]] name for a [[stream|creek]] that passes through the suburb and into [[Norman Creek]] near the (now) [[Coorparoo railway station, Brisbane|Coorparoo railway station]]. For thousands of years Aborigines lived on the fertile land on the banks of the [[Brisbane River]], hunting and fishing.
Its traditional architecture consists of a series of housing and public buildings, of late 19th-century vintage, built with wood from the [[USA|US]] state of [[Oregon]] brought to Chile as counterweight in sailing vessels coming to [[Coquimbo]], the nearby port, to load copper and other minerals for transport back to the US. This Oregon pine and the use of [[adobe]] create the genuine image of the city.
Those who lived on the southside of the river, particularly the [[Yugarabul]] or [[Jagara]] tribes, found plenty of food in this area. Just before European settlement, [[John Oxley]] in [[1823]] marked (but did not name) a creek. The name "Norman's Creek" first appeared on a map prepared by Major Lockyer in [[1825]].
There is also a number of remarkable and valuable small churches built of sedimentary stone quarried 5 km to the north of the [[Elqui River]], having a characteristic color and texture formed by myriad small shells. These churches are all roughly 350 years old and have undergone restoration to varying degrees, bringing them back to their original form. San Francisco, San Agustín, Santo Domingo are the names of a few of them.
Historian Leslie E. Slaughter, in a paper presented to the [[Historical Society of Queensland]] on [[28 November]] [[1953]], wrote that "the name Norman's Creek is a corruption of the original name of Gorman's Creek, named after Lieutenant Owen Gorman of Her Majesty's 8th Foot Regiment and who was the last commandant of Moreton Bay. Baker's Atlas of [[1846]] mapped it as Gorman's Creek. [[Norman Park, Queensland|Norman Park]] was named after Sir [[Henry Norman]], the seventh Governor of Queensland, May 1, 1895".
The Cathedral, built from the same stone, dates from the 19th century. It must be said that although it lacks the same historical value as the older churches, this is a stone building in a country prone to seismic activity, and has survived various earthquakes. Indeed, during centuries of existence, there is almost no visible damage. All of these churches, along with others of minor importance, provide a unique urban landscape, an image for the city, giving it the nickname "''The City of Churches''."
The Aboriginals called this small creek/tributary of Norman Creek "Cooraparoo". The meaning remains unclear, with possibilities including 'place of the biting mosquito', 'call of the dingo' .
The first survey in (what is now) Stones Corner/Coorparoo area was of 'Norman' Creek--in [[1839]]--just when the [[Moreton Bay]] penal settlement was coming to an end. Surveying of a practical route from Brisbane to [[Cleveland, Queensland|Cleveland]] commenced in 1850 and the former bullock track became a road, later named Old Cleveland Road.
A few of the major sectors are: El Centro ("downtown"), Peñuelas (actually a suburb between La Serena and its sister city [[Coquimbo]]), San Joaquín (neighborhood on a hill overlooking the ocean), La Florida, Las Compañías ("the companies"), Cerro Grande ("big hill"), La Antena and the new El Milagro ("the miracle") development.
This important arterial road has carried bullock drays, electric [[tram]] (from [[1915]] to [[1969]]), buses and an ever increasing volume of cars as the bayside district became more densely populated.
Another important arterial road is Cavendish Road, marked as a Government Road on the original survey, it later became Pine Mountain Road then Cavendish Road. Until [[1955]] a tram line ran along Cavendish Road from Old Cleveland Road. In that year, the trams were replaced by a [[trolleybus]] service which operated until March [[1969]].
*[http://www.userena.cl// University of La Serena]
*[http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/85488.html/ weather forecast]
*[http://www.visit-chile.org/norte/h21.phtml Chilean tourist site for La Serena]
*[http://www.intimahinatravel.cl travel agency]
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[[Category: SuburbsCities ofin BrisbaneChile]] ▼In October [[1856]] the first auction sales of land in Coorparoo took place with 10 country allotments between Norman's Creek and Old Cleveland Road being offered. In December [[1857]] the second Coorparoo land sale took place with a further 9 portion on the southern side of Old Cleveland Road being offered. Further sales subsequently took place and by 1875 the population of the district had grown significantly enough to demand the provision of the district's own school.
[[Category:Communes of Chile]]
[[Category:Capitals of Chilean regions]]
Samuel Stevens in [[1875]] donated two acres (8,000 m²) of his property near the junction of Pine Mountain Road (now Cavendish Road) and Old Cleveland Road for use of a school. He declined the offer of naming the area "Stevenstown". At a meeting on [[22 March]] [[1875]] of the residents at Frederick Wecker's home it was resolved "that the name of the locality and the school should be Cooraparoo" after the Aboriginal name for the area around the creek but the Board of Education chose the spelling 'Coorparoo' and the district finally had a name.
[[Category:Settlements established in 1544]]
[[Category:Cities and towns in Coquimbo Region]]
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*[http://www.ourbrisbane.com/living/suburbs/coorparoo/home/ ourbrisbane.com website - Coorparoo section]
*[http://www.coorparoouniting.com/history.aspx Coorparoo Uniting Church history - founded 1886]
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