Utrecht (province) the largest in the Netherlands in both area and population. In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrecht Hill Ridge (Dutch: Utrechtse Heuvelrug), a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the last ice age. Because of the scarcity of nutrients in the fast-draining sandy soil, the greatest part of a landscape that was formerly heath has been planted with pine plantations. The south of the province is a river landscape. The west consists mostly of meadows. In the north are big lakes formed by the digging of peat
Melipilla Province Melipilla Province Melipilla Province () is one of six provinces in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. The provincial capital is the city of Melipilla. As a province, Melipilla is a second-level administrative division of Chile, governed by a provincial governor who is appointed by the president. On March 18, 2010, Paula Andrea Gárate Rojas was appointed by governor by president Sebastián Piñera. The province comprises five communes (Spanish: "comunas"), each governed by a municipality consisting of an alcalde and municipal council: The province spans an area of , the second largest in the Santiago Metropolitan Region. According to