La Población is the seventh studio album by Chilean singer-songwriter Víctor Jara, released in 1972 by DICAP, and Odeon labels.

The album concept is "based on the history and life of Santiago's shantytown communities",[1] and focuses on the poverty of the Chilean camps and workers.

[2] It also "gives a central role to children in the founding of this new popular urban space",[3] "brilliantly described the set of practices and imaginaries that surrounded the emergence of the camps",[4] and "has a correlation in the formal aspect of the album, where it is possible to listen to tunes, cuecas and marches, among other rhythms that account for the melodies that accompany different social identities.

[6] "Hermina de la Victoria" recounts the moments prior to the seizure of those lands in the community of Barrancas, Pudahuel on March 16, 1967.

[7] The other artists which collaborated on the album were, Isabel Parra, Bélgica Castro, Huamarí, Cantamaranto, Pato Solovera, Pedro Yáñez and Benko.