| Post: | Governor |
| Body: | Cardenal Caro |
| Insignia: | Logo de la Gobernación de Cardenal Caro RGB.svg |
| Insigniasize: | 150px |
| Insigniacaption: | Logo |
| Style: | No courtesy, title or style |
| Appointer: | President of Chile |
| First: | Marcelo Nogueira Hidalgo |
| Last: | Carlos Ortega Bahamondes |
| Abolished: | July 14, 2021 |
| Superseded By: | Presidential provincial delegate of Cardenal Caro |
| Salary: | CLP4,602,960 (USD8,331)[1] (as of April 2014) |
The governor of Cardenal Caro Province was the appointed head of government of the provincial government in Cardenal Caro Province, Chile between 1979 and 2021. The governor was designated by the president.
The first governor of Cardenal Caro Province was Marcelo Nogueira Hidalgo, appointed by dictator Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, and the last was Carlos Ortega Bahamondes, who was appointed on March 11, 2018 by President Sebastián Piñera Echenique.
The history of the province began when, on July 13, 1973, President Salvador Allende decreed the creation of the Cardenal Caro Department, which would become a province on October 3, 1979, as General Augusto Pinochet decreed its creation under the name of Cardenal Caro (Cardinal Caro), in honour of José María Caro Rodríguez, the first Roman Catholic Church Cardinal, who was born in Ciruelos near the province's capital city, Pichilemu.[2] The communes of Litueche (formerly El Rosario), La Estrella, Marchihue, Paredones, and Pichilemu, originally from Colchagua Province; and Navidad, originally from San Antonio Province, formed the province.[2] The first governor of Cardenal Caro was Marcelo Nogueira Hidalgo, who held the office from 1979 until 1990.
| Name | Took office | Left office | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marcelo Nogueira Hidalgo[3] | 1979 | 1990 | |
| 2 | Hernán Vieira Herrera | 1990 | 1994 | |
| 3 | Rolando Cárdenas Ibarra | 1994 | 2000 | |
| 4 | Cristián Oyarzún Estay | 2000 | 2002 | |
| 5 | José Saúl Bravo Gallegos | 2002 | 2004 | |
| 6 | Fabricio Jiménez Mardones | 2004 | 2006 | |
| 7 | Hernán San Martín Valdés | 2006 | 2007 | |
| 8 | Loreto Puebla Muñoz | 2009 | 11 March 2010 | |
| 9 | Julio Diego Ibarra Maldonado | 16 March 2010 | 12 March 2014 | |
| 10 | Teresa Núñez Cornejo | 12 March 2014[4] [5] | 11 March 2018 | |
| 11 | Carlos Ortega Bahamondes | 11 March 2018 | 14 July 2021 |