Enrique Echavarría

Enrique Echavarría Barriga (13 July 1887 – 11 September 1941) was a Chilean politician and landowner.

A member of the Liberal Party, he served as a deputy for the Fourth Departamental Grouping (La Serena, Coquimbo, Elqui, Ovalle, Combarbalá and Illapel) during the 1930–1934 legislative period.

Biography Echavarría was born in Petorca at the estate El Sobrante on 13 July 1887, the son of Vicente Echavarría Echavarría and Margarita Barriga. He married Ester Maturana Concha, and the couple had four children.

He studied at the Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones and later at the Law School of the University of Chile. Echavarría worked as an agriculturist and was the owner of the estate Chillepín in Salamanca.

Political career Echavarría was a member of the Liberal Party. He was elected deputy for the Fourth Departamental Grouping (La Serena, Coquimbo, Elqui, Ovalle, Combarbalá and Illapel) for the 1930–1934 legislative period.

During his parliamentary tenure he served on the Permanent Commissions on Hygiene and Public Assistance and on Labour and Social Welfare.

The 1932 Chilean coup d'état led to the dissolution of the National Congress on 6 June of that year.

He died in Santiago on 11 September 1941.