The Santa Inés neighborhood is located in a strategic sector of downtown Viña del Mar. Here, housing was built for the families of workers and technicians who were attracted by the industrial development of the city; workers from the Gratry, Ambrosoli, Italmar, and Sedamar factories, among others, lived there. Today there are houses for municipal employees, a variety of self-built housing and housing complexes managed by community organizations. Four towers were built before it was declared a historic conservation area in 2015. The sector is surrounded by vegetation, thanks to the northern ravine of the Navy farm and the Sausalito Park, and the connection with the coastline at the height of Los Marineros beach is in the Las Salinas sector. Its configuration around the square is a bit like Cerro Placeres in Valparaíso and also has something of Cerro Castillo, especially for its location in the context of the new urban centralities of Viña. Close to Libertad Street, the mall, some restaurants, the new bank branches, Fonasa, isapres, automobile companies and university campuses. The sector has good transportation. In the center, four bus lines run along 21 Norte Street and it is surrounded by major roads, Alessandri Avenue to the west and north, Quillota Street that connects with Gómez Carreño to the east and Concón Avenue to the south, which is the main commercial street and has a high vehicular flow; all the buses that drop you off at the plan at 15 Norte Street, near where the fair is held on Wednesdays and Saturdays, go down this street. The Santiago Cabrera sector is very winding, the streets go up, down to the square and then back up again. Here the neighborhood council has a tango club and has a well-established headquarters. In this sector is the Pedro Aguirre Cerda school, the Angamos sports club, founded in 1934, which has a synthetic grass field and a soccer school that operates on Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm. If you walk up Concón street, you pass the San Sebastián bakery, the Paris butcher shop and La Veguita, where they sell vegetables. Before you meet the old road to Quillota on the way there are several mechanical workshops. There you will find the cemetery and, further down, the pedagogical center of the Catholic University, a large campus that borders the Sausalito park and the Ruben Castro school. One of the most interesting things was to find the Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Santa Inés, COOMPACSI, which has more than 9,000 members. Fortín Santa Inés, a gymnasium located on 20 North Street, in front of the plaza and next to the church, has an important group of girls who practice skating and rehearse several times a week. The potential of Santa Inés lies in the organization of its neighbors, who have managed to maintain traditions, emblematic places, cleanliness and safety in its streets. When walking along the main roads, people greet each other and listen to the classic mix of music on the radio.
