Northeastern zone of Santiago

Likewise, in the communal limit of Las Condes, Providencia and Vitacura is located the financial sector of Sanhattan, which has experienced significant growth in high-rise buildings destined mainly for offices and trade.

Carried out in a 2015 study, the communes are the best in quality of urban life index, and with the highest availability of green areas in the city, as long as other services.

Popularly, the expression "from Plaza Italia up" marks the division between the eastern sector and the rest of the city in an east and west direction and socially.

According to an article published by the scientific journal PLOS One in 2021, its inhabitants tend to behave as if they were an ethnic minority, reflected by the composition of their surnames, corresponding mainly to the Castilian-Basque aristocracy, as in the ten highest average status from Santiago: Aldunate, Errázuriz, García-Huidobro, Irarrázaval, Izquierdo, Larraín, Schmidt, Tagle, Undurraga and Vial.

[8] On July 22, 2022, the first part of the Vespucio Oriente Highway was inaugurated, which runs from La Reina to north at Avenida El Salto in Huechuraba across much of Las Condes and Vitacura.