LINARES

capital of Linares provincia, Maule regin, central Chile, lying inland, 60 miles (100 km) from the Pacific coast, in the fertile Central Valley. Founded in 1755 as San Javier de Bella Isla, it was renamed San Ambrosio de Linares in 1794, and its present name became official in 1875. The city is a commercial and agricultural centre dealing in wine grapes, grains, fruits, vegetables, and livestock and has dairies, tanneries, and flour mills. Both the Pan-American Highway and the main north-south railroad pass through Linares, and a branch line leads to the Termas (hot springs) de Panimvida, 17 miles northeast. Pop. (1990 est.) mun. 70,528. town, north-central Jan provincia, situated in the comunidad autonma (autonomous community) of Andalusia, southern Spain, in the southern foothills of the Sierra Morena just northwest of the Ro Guadalimar. The town is connected by branch railways with the lead mines on its northwestern outskirts. Mining and the manufacture of gunpowder, dynamite and blasting materials, and rope are the main economic activities. The smelting of lead, the manufacture of lead sheets and pipes, and the production of by-product silver from the lead ores are carried on. The local lead is of high quality. Immediately to the south is the village of Cazlona, with remains of the ancient Iberian settlement of Cstulo. Spain's famous bullfighter Manolete (Manuel Rodrguez) was killed in the Linares bullring (1947). Pop. (1981) 54,547.