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	Leisure- and Travel Tips for Arica. Our Travel guide from Insiders for your Vacation in Arica covers Hotel Reviews, ...
		It is the capital of the Arica Province in the Tarapacá Region and has a population of approximately 200,000, and is also known as the "city of the eternal spring".
		Arica has strong ties with the city of Tacna, Peru; many people cross the border everyday to visit this city, and also because many services (for example, dentists) are cheaper on the Peruvian side.
		Arica is also known as one of the driest inhabited places on Earth, at least as measured by rainfall: average annual precipitation is 0.8 mm (0.03 inches), as measured at the airport meteorological station.
	www.cosmotourist.com /travel/d/i/101149/t/south-america/chile/tarapaca/arica (434 words)

	Arica, Chile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is the capital of the Arica Province in the Tarapacá Region and has a population of approximately 200,000, and is also known as the "city of the eternal spring".
		Arica has strong ties with the city of Tacna, Peru; many people cross the border everyday to visit this city, and also because many services (for example, dentists) are cheaper on the Peruvian side.
		Arica is also known as one of the driest inhabited places on Earth, at least as measured by rainfall: average annual precipitation is 0.8 mm (0.03 inches), as measured at the airport meteorological station.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arica,_Chile (411 words)

	Arica, Chile
		It is the capital of the Arica Province in the Tarapacá Region and has a population of approximately 200,000, and is known as the "city of the eternal spring".
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		The Azapa Valley, olives cultivate of extends of of Near Arica of the vegetables and of of where of the desert of THE ONE of in of the oasis of.
	www.creekin.net /c2706-n39-arica-chile.html (802 words)

	Chile - LoveToKnow 1911
		The central agricultural provinces are traversed by several important rivers, all of them rising on the western slopes of the snow-clad Andes and breaking through the lower coast range to the Pacific after being extensively used to irrigate the great central valley of Chile.
		The province of Atacama has, in addition to its mining population, a considerable number of agriculturists located in a few irrigated river valleys, which class is largely increased in the adjoining province of Coquimbo.
		Arica is one of the oldest ports on the coast, and has long been a favoured port for Bolivian trade because the passes through the Cordilleras at that point are not so difficult.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Chile (15577 words)

	Tacna - LoveToKnow 1911
		TACNA, a northern province of Chile, in dispute with Peru from 1893 onwards, bounded N. by Peru, E. by Bolivia, S. by Tarapaca, and W. by the Pacific.
		There is one railway in the province, running from the city of Tacna to Arica (q.v.), and in 1910 another from Arica to La Paz, Bolivia, was under construction by the Chilean government.
		by rail from Arica, in a fertile valley among the foothills of the Andes.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tacna (327 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Tacna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		During the War of the Pacific, the cities of Tacna and Arica were invaded by Chilean forces.
		Under the terms of the treaty, Chile was to occupy the provinces of Tacna and Arica for 10 years, after which a plebiscite was to be held to determine their nationality.
		It is the capital of the Tacna Region and the Tacna Province.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Tacna (7420 words)

	Chile.com: Contenido de art?culo.
		Its surface is 6,061 km square and according to the census of 1992, the population is 2,803 inhabitants, with a density of 0.5 inhabitants per km square.
		It is 167 km from Arica and 102 km from Putre.
		Distant 250 km from Arica and 100 km from Putre.
	www.chile.com /tpl/articulo/detalle/print.tpl?cod_articulo=1759 (5753 words)

	United States and the Bolivian Sea Coast - Chapter 1
		From the port of Arica to the city of Cotagayta, one of the principal cities of Chichas, a rich mining province, still farther south that Potosí, it is one hundred and ninety-two miles; and thence to Jujuy it is two hundred and fifty-five miles.
		During the period of the colony, Arica was established in 1546 as a port of exit for minerals from Upper Peru, and in 1547, Virrey Francisco de Toledo declared it the official and mandatory port for exportation of silver from Potosí.
		The decision of Marshall Santa Cruz to declare Arica as a free port was due to the fact that he was trying to obtain the integrity of the Confederation, which was threatened by the desire of the population of the south of Peru to incorporate themselves into Bolivia.
	www.boliviaweb.com /mar/sea/chapter1.htm (8036 words)

	Peru - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		After the war (and with the loss of the department of Tarapacá and the province of Arica), political stability was achieved, during the early years of the 1900s; until Augusto Leguía and his dictatorship arrived.
		The Lima Province, located in the central coast of the country, is unique in that it doesn't belong to any of the twenty-five regions.
		Ica and Nazca regions are most famous for their afro communities, yet in the Morropon Province of Piura, the town of Yapatera is the region where we find the highest percentage of pure afro Peruvians.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/e/r/Peru.html (2085 words)

	south africa accommodation, africa accommodation
		From Cape Town in the South to The World Famous Kruger National Park in the North and everywhere in between (Garden Route, Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape, Free State, KwaZulu Natal, Mpumalanga, Limpopo Province, North West Province and Johannesburg and Pretoria).
		You will notice the space and tranquility of the North West provides a welcome change of pace, a peaceful province that poses no malaria threat what so ever - not to be missed.
		Egoli 'The Place of Gold', Gauteng although the smallest of the nine South Arica 's provinces, Gauteng (Sotho word for the Place of Gold) is the powerhouse of South Africa and the heart of its commercial business and industrial sectors.
	www.uyaphi.com /accommodationZA.htm (726 words)

	Peru
		The war ended with the loss of the department of Tarapacá and the provinces of Tacna and Arica.
		In 1929 Peru and Chile signed a peace treaty (Treaty of Ancon) by which Tacna was to be returned to Peru and Peru yielded permanently the rich province of Arica, although keeping certain rights to the port activities in Arica.
		The current president is Alejandro Toledo, leader of Perú Posible, he was elected with 53% of the votes in second ballot in the 2001 election defeating former socialist president Alberto Fujimori.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/peru.html (3228 words)

	Building Development Partnerships: Defeating the Medfly
		The medfly was confined to the Arica province in the northern tip of Chile by the end of 1980, but its presence there was enough to preclude the country's chances of winning significant export clients.
		After several years of costly and unsuccessful control campaigns in the Arica province, the Government of Chile approached UNDP and IAEA for assistance in using the Sterile Insect Technique (SIT) to eradicate the medfly.
		With contributions from an IAEA Technical Co-operation project, Chile built a factory for producing sterile medflies in the Arica near the border of Peru, which was inaugurated in August 1993.
	www.iaea.org /Publications/Booklets/UndpBook/medfly.html (1497 words)

	Maza’s Weblog » Going to extremes
		The earliest commerce on the route concentrated on rock salt, used mainly to preserve meat, which was mined in Afghanistan 5,500 years ago.
		Lapis was found some 1,350 miles away in the excavations of Ur, the capital city of the Sumerians (and birthplace of the prophet Abraham) in the Tigris/Euphrates river delta near Baghdad, which was founded in about 2100 BC.
		Not satisfied with the dryness of Arica, Nick voyages to the Atacama Desert in hopes of finding a place even drier than Arica.
	weblog.mazalien.nl /archives/2006/01/10/going-to-extremes (1274 words)

	United States and the Bolivian Sea Coast - Chapter 7
		Chile would then declare neutrality for the whole of Arica province and would grant a status of free port to the city for the use of Bolivia and Peru; at the same time, Chile would give international status to the railroad connecting Arica and La Paz.
		Collier answered the same day stating that Minister Mathieu's personal opinion favored the transfer of the whole province of Arica to Bolivia and that he only needed a few days to persuade the president and the committees of foreign affairs in the Senate and in the House to adopt such a solution.
		Velarde stated in his memorandum that the Morro and the port of Arica were a geographical, political and commercial unit inseparable from Tacna, and that no natural barrier existed to mark the borders between Tacna and Arica.
	www.boliviaweb.com /mar/sea/chapter7.htm (8203 words)

	TACNA - Online Information article about TACNA
		Arica (q.v.), and in 1910 another from Arica to La Paz, Bolivia, was under construction by the Chilean See also:
		October 1883) were practically dictated by Chile, and by one of the provisions the Peruvian provinces of Tacna and Arica were to be occupied and exploited by Chile for a See also:
		country acquiring the two provinces in this manner to pay the other $1o,000,000.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/TACNA.html (636 words)

	South Africa and Africa Safari holiday trips to Game Reserves in South Africa and Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Set in the splendor of the malaria free Eastern Cape, this untouched wilderness boasts a past as rich as its abundant wildlife population.
		Situated in the Greater Addo Elephant National Park, and lying on the shores of the Parks Darlington Lake is the intimate Darlington Lake Lodge.
		It shares a common border of 19km / 12 miles with the Kruger National Park and is part of a conservation gene pool that covers 5.5 million acres of land in the heart of the South African Lowveld.
	www.beachandbush.co.za /safari.htm (1852 words)

	SOS Children: Child Sponsorship Charity
		Natitingou Natitingou is the capital of the province Atacora in the north-west of the country.
		Other facilities for training and education in Arica are within easy reach for the children.
		Harrar is the capital of the province of Harrarghe,
	archive.soschildrensvillages.org.uk /sponsor-child/arica.html (398 words)

	WHKMLA : The Pacific War, 1879-1884
		The nitrate deposits in Bolivia's Atacama province - a sparsely populated desert province - were exploited by Chilean companies.
		By the end of 1879, Chile was in control of Bolivia's Atacama province and the Peruvian province of Tarapaca.
		The TREATY OF ANCON (Oct. 1883) restored peace between Peru and Chile; Peru ceded the Tarapaca province, while Chile remained in control of Tacna and Arica, where the population was to decide on the future of their territory in a plebiscite 10 years later.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/19cen/pacwar187984.html (547 words)

	Litoral department, Bolivia
		This area is almost equivalent to nowadays Chilean Region of Antofagasta (or "II Región", provinces of Arica, Parinacota and Iquique); it was formerly a Bolivian province (Antofagasta or Atacama province).
		By the Treaty of Ancón (Lima 1883), Peru lost the province of Tarapacá (about 330 km of coastline) and the provinces of Tacna and Arica (a further 80 km) were to be administered by Chile for a 10-year term, after which a plebiscite would decide on their destiny.
		By the 1884 Truce, Bolivia lost its only coastal province of Antofagasta, about 510 km of coastline and (most important) all of the nitrate deposits of the Atacama desert.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/bo-a.html (461 words)

	Matt's Bolivi Journal
		At the bus restaurant stop for dinner I met a traveler from Canada, we arrived back at the Arica bus station later that night and were offered a cheap room from a lady there who owned a little hotel.
		Unfortunately nobody did so I was left with a disgusting spit over my eye and had to go back to my hotel to clean up the mess.
		It was my last day in the city, later that afternoon I had to get a bus to Arica in Northern Chile to take a flight back to Santiago the next day.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/travelphotos/South_America/Bolivia (840 words)

	Birding northern Chile a slice of the Andes from Arica to Lauca
		Birding northern Chile: Arica, Iquique, Putre, Lauca, Surire, Isluga, Atacama Desert transverse valleys and oases, Tamarugo plantations, estuaries, rocky and sandy beaches.....all habitats from sea to altiplano.
		The Peru-Chile Pacific slope (including the 2 northern provinces of Chile) is considered by BirdLife International to be one of South America's endemic bird areas with a priority for biodiversity conservation.
		Some other interesting birds in the province are the Oasis Hummingbird, Peruvian Sheartail, Peruvian Thick-knee, Groove-billed Ani, Blue-fl Grassquit, Chestnut-throated Seedeater, Croaking Ground-dove (no, that wasn't a frog you just heard), Yellowish Pipit, Bran-colored Flycatcher and of course the Humboldt Current specialties like Hornby's Storm-petrel, Markham's Storm-petrel, and other seabirds.
	www.birdingaltoandino.com /birds.htm (948 words)

	Bolivian Studies Association - Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Responding to the Tacna and Arica Treaty and Additional Protocol, the Bolivian government directed a circular to its overseas legations in 1929 protesting the terms of the agreement, especially the contents of article 1 of the additional protocol.
		The key elements of the Bolivian proposal were a sovereign coastline between the Linea de la Concordia and the city of Arica with a strip of sovereign land connecting the coastline and the Bolivia-Chile frontier and including the transfer of the Arica-La Paz railway.
		On the Chilean side, criticism of the agreement was centered in Arica where residents worried that its terms would result in Bolivian cargo being diverted to the Peruvian wharf and thus have a negative impact on Chilean facilities.
	www.bolivianstudies.org /eng1/journal/2001_07.htm (15194 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Colonial Atlas
		Though claimed by England this province was only ever settled by a French trading post 1605-74, after which it was virtually abandoned, i.e.
		England’s interests in the province occurred later, the great timber port of Bangor started in 1791 and grew to fame in the next century.
		This province was never settled in the EU era.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=12465 (6460 words)

	Chile Provinces
		Chile is divided into regions, which are subdivided into provinces.
		Since the book was published, I've learned that the number of provinces was increased to 51, no later than 1993.
		~1991: Chile reorganized from 40 provincias (provinces), which were further subdivided into 334 comunas (municipalities), into 51 provinces.
	www.statoids.com /ycl.html (114 words)

	ARICA (SAN MARCOS DE A... - Online Information article about ARICA (SAN MARCOS DE A...
		Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
		Arica was captured, looted and burned by the Chileans in 188o, and in accordance with the terms of the treaty of See also:
		End of Article: ARICA (SAN MARCOS DE ARICA)
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /APO_ARN/ARICA_SAN_MARCOS_DE_ARICA_.html (304 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Chile: Earthquake Information Bulletin No. 2
		The earthquake lasted approximately 50 seconds and tremors were felt in Calama, Tocopilla, Arica, Chanaral, El Salvador, Antofagasta, Caldera and Copiapo throughout northern Chile and as far away as the capital, Santiago, in Ilo, Moquegua, Tacna and Arequipa in Peru, in La Paz, Bolivia and Brasilia, Brazil.
		Chile's government declared the coastal province of Iquique and the community of Camarones in the province of Arica a disaster zone on Thursday, 16 June, following the two day visit of President Lagos to the affected region.
		Water supplies were cut off, mainly as a result of power outages, affecting particularly the rural areas of the Province of Iquique and a significant part of the city of Iquique.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6DL4HM?OpenDocument (1122 words)

	UFO ROUNDUP Volume 7 Number 8
		Accompanied by a group of officials from the small city of General Lagos, he was driving through the town of Molinos in Arica province, the the middle of the Lluta Valley, when they noticed that a powerful beam of white light filled the entire area at around 9:30 p.m.
		We talked about it later when were down in the city (Arica) and reached the conclusion that it had been something weird.
		Arica is located about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) north of Santiago de Chile, the national capital.
	www.ufoinfo.com /roundup/v07/rnd0708.shtml (4616 words)

	Peru - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Peruvian Government attempted to mediate the dispute by sending a diplomatic team to negotiate with the Chilean government; however, the committee concluded that war was inevitable.
		After almost five years of war, it ended with the loss of the department of Tarapacá and the provinces of Tacna and Arica, in the Atacama region.
		In 1929 Peru and Chile signed a final peace treaty, (Treaty of Ancon) by which Tacna was to be returned to Peru and Peru yielded permanently the rich provinces of Arica and Tarapaca, although keeping certain rights to the port activities in Arica and decisions of what Chile can do on those territories.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Peru (3390 words)

	Peru Information Center - map of peru
		Once again, between 1879 and 1883, Peru and Bolivia made travel to peru an alliance and fought against Chile in the War of the Pacific.
		After the war (and with the loss of the department of Tarapacá and the province of Arica), political stability was achieved, during the early years of the 1900s; until Augusto Leguía peru people and his dictatorship arrived.
		Ica and Nazca regions are most famous for their afro communities, yet in the Morropon Province of Piura, the town of Yapatera is the region where we find the highest percentage famous people from peru of pure afro Peruvians.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Official_Languages_P_-_S/Peru.html (2153 words)

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