The Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region, often shortened to O'Higgins Region, is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions. It is subdivided into three provinces. It is named in honour of Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme, one of Chile's founding fathers.
Río Claro
Cathedral at Plaza de los Heroes
Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque-Spanish and Irish ancestry. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817–1823), he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder of this title to head a fully independent Chilean state.
Portrait by José Gil de Castro
Ambrosio O'Higgins, Bernardo's father, whom he never met
José Miguel Carrera, with whom O'Higgins had an ongoing feud
Bust of Bernardo O' Higgins, Richmond Upon Thames, Greater London, United Kingdom.