[1] There were several attempts to create a department made up by the coastal communes of the province of Colchagua, including a proposal in the 1910s for the creation of the Rapel Department, composed by the communes-subdelegations of Matanzas (currently Navidad), Pichilemu, El Rosario (now Litueche), Calleuque (current Peralillo commune), and La Estrella as the capital; however, the Congress motion failed to attract much interest.
[2] Eventually, Peralillo was ruled out as the capital of the future department, despite it would mean a lesser cost to the Government, by "conditioning the commune [of Marchigüe] with basic services".
[2] El Cóndor, a newspaper from Santa Cruz, cited Senator Víctor Contreras Tapia: "This is an important step for administrative decentralization and opens the doors for the regional development".
The same newspaper also announced a series of festivities, after the Fiestas Patrias (national holidays), "a real coastal carnival".
However, exactly one week later, President Allende was overthrown by a coup d'état, basically making the law "dead text".