Darkness Descends: The Hardest-Hit Communities in the Metropolitan Region’s Devastating Power Outage

More than 160 thousand homes remain without electricity as a result of a massive power outage in various communities in the Metropolitan Regionaccording to the report published by the Electricity and Fuel Supervision (SEC) after 7:00 am this Tuesday, October 29.

As detailed by the SEC, the supply cut is also recorded in the regions of Valparaíso, Biobío, La Araucanía, Los Lagos and Aysénwith nearly seven thousand clients affected in total.

As for the Metropolitan Region, the commune has the highest number of homes where power cuts are recorded Las Condes, with a total of 70,448 affected at that time.

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The other communes with power cuts are in the RM

It is followed by the commune of Providencia, with 59,013 residences where there is no electricity supply, while the third place is occupied by Vitacura, with 23,342 affected.

Further back they are located Co Barnechea (8,489); Santiago (25) and Recoleta (16)while in communities such as La Granja and Cerro Navia, only one home without electricity is reported.

As for the rest of the country, the Biobío Region has 1,914 residences without electricity; that he Aysén registers 809 homes where there is a power outage, while in the Valparaiso reaches 610 and in that of La Araucanía is 346 customers without electricity.