Lo Espejo (Spanish "the mirror") is a municipality ("comuna") of Chile located on the southwest of the province of Santiago in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, and is home to mostly low-income families. It has an area of 7 km², a population of 112,800 (2002 census) and an average household income of $12,042 in PPPUS dollars (2000). A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ... Upscale Santiago at dawn with the snowcapped Andes in the background Santiago (known officially in Spanish as Santiago de Chile) is Chiles capital and largest city. ... The Santiago Metropolitan Region is a landlocked administrative region in central Chile. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In economics, purchasing power parity (PPP) is a method used to calculate an alternative exchange rate between the currencies of two countries. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ...