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	Iquique - LoveToKnow 1911
		IQUIQUE, a city and port of Chile, capital of the province of Tarapaca, 820 m.
		Facing the city is the low barren island of Serrano, or Iquique, which is connected with the mainland by a stone causeway 1500 ft. long, and shelters the anchorage from southerly storms.
		Iquique is a city of much commercial importance and is provided with banks, substantial business houses, newspapers, clubs, schools, railways, tramways, electric lights, telephone lines, and steamship and cable communication with the outside world.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Iquique (347 words)

	Tarapaca - LoveToKnow 1911
		It is part of the rainless desert region of the Pacific coast of South America, and is absolutely without water except at the base of the Andes where streams flow down into the sands and are lost.
		Silver is mined in the vicinity of Iquique, the capital.
		The ports of the province are Pisagua, Iquique and Patillos, from which " nitrate railways " run inland to the deposits.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Tarapaca (192 words)

	Tarapacá
		It comprises the civil province of the same name, has an area of 19,305 square miles, and a population of 106,215 Catholics and 3821 non-Catholics.
		The vicariate was erected in 1882, when Chile took possession of the Province of Tarapacá, which had formerly belonged to Peru and to the Diocese of Arequipa.
		The population is composed mainly of miners and workers in the saltpetre beds, who are homeless and little given to the practice of their religion.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/t/tarapaca.html (412 words)

	British Enterprise in South America
		Both ports are operated as one, serving the whole of the southern part of the large and fertile province of Buenos Aires, and the rapidly developing territories of the Pampa and Rio Negro.
		When the railway system in the province of Tarapacá was begun about the year 1865 the territory was Peruvian, but, after the war between Chile and Peru and Bolivia in 1883, the provinces of Tarapacá and Antofagasta were ceded to Chile.
		Iquique is the principal station, and the main repair shops are situated there, the shops being equipped to deal with all classes of heavy and light repairs.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r088.html (5203 words)

	Iquique, Chile, Pictures
		Iquique, city in northern Chile, capital of Tarapacá Region, on the Pacific coast, just west of the Atacama Desert.
		Iquique is a major seaport of Chile and serves as the outlet for the surrounding area, which is rich in nitrates, iodine, salt, and guano.
		Iquique was founded in the 16th century and was part of Peru until 1879, when it was captured by Chile during the War of the Pacific.
	www.greatestcities.com /South_America/Chile/Iquique_city.html (256 words)

	IQUIQUE - Online Information article about IQUIQUE
		Iquique is a city of much commercial importance and is provided with See also:
		iodine and immense quantities of nitrate of soda obtained from the desert region of the province.
		trade, and Iquique ranks as one of the two leading ports of Chile in the aggregate value of its See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/IQUIQUE.html (493 words)

	World Heritage Sites in South and Central America and the Caribbean - Multimedia - MSN Encarta
		South-western Paraná; along part of the border with Misiones Province in Argentina in the south; close to the border with Paraguay in the west; borders the Iguazú National Park and Nature Reserve in Argentina and is separated from them by the Iguazú River on the south
		provinces of Manú and Paucartambo (Departments of Madre de Dios and Cuzco); eastern slopes of the Andes and of the Peruvian Amazones
		Andes; San Martín Department, province of Mariscal Cáceres, district of Huicungo, east of Trujillo
	uk.encarta.msn.com /media_1481506533_761554342_-1_1/World_Heritage_Sites_in_South_and_Central_America_and_the_Caribbean.html (654 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Colonial Atlas
		Province names seem right according to cities (except for Talca) but probably a little bit displaced to the south so probably we shouldn't mind the name of the provinces.
		Although, even though it is technically in Erie province, it does seem a bit odd to have a city so far away from Lake Erie be the settlement for that province...
		Western Prussia - Thorn - Wielkopolska - Poznan (The in-game province of POSEN is misplaced)
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?p=5266886#post5266886 (2456 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Today, his second day touring the region, the President emphasized that such a decree would allow for a streamlining of the administrative steps that need to be taken to repair the damages caused by the earthquake, which measured 7.9 on the Richter scale.
		The President also mentioned the situation of a group of residents in another area of Iquique, where there are nine women on a hunger strike until SERVIU will agree to build housing in an area that studies have shown to be unsound.
		During the day, the President also visited the Iquique Industrial School, where he met with Sergio Bitar, the Minister of Education, to evaluate the situation of the schools in the seven districts most affected by the quake.
	www.presidencyofchile.cl /view/viewArticuloContraste.asp?idarticulo=5088&tipo= (989 words)

	Presidency of the Republic of Chile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The President visited the Iquique Industrial School, where he met with Sergio Bitar, the Minister of Education, to evaluate the situation of the schools in the seven districts most affected by the quake.
		The President visited the Iquique Regional Hospital and the Matilla II neighborhood, in the upper part of the city, where he announced to residents that a definitive solution for those whose houses were damaged by the quake is currently under study.
		The President of the Republic, Ricardo Lagos, announced that after evaluating the damages done by Monday’s earthquake in the Tarapacá region, the Government has decided to declare disaster areas in the province of Iquique, and the neighboring district of Camarones.
	www.presidencyofchile.cl /view/viewArticulo.asp?idArticulo=5088 (396 words)

	PORT OF ANTOFAGASTA The Antofagasta Port (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The province of Antofagasta limits in the North with the Tocopilla province, in the east with the El Loa province and Argentina, in the South with the Third region, specifically with the Chañaral province and in the Western with the Pacific Ocean.
		The Antofagasta city is 492 [kilometres] in the South of Iquique city and 1361 [km] in the Santiago North.
		The third access is the Route 1, coastal road that connects with the ports of Mejillones, Tocopilla and Iquique by the north, and toward the south with Port Colossus.
	www.userway.com /usa/Transporte/Puertos/Chile/Antofagasta.htm (848 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Chile: Earthquake Information Bulletin No. 2
		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.
		Today, 21 June, a member of OXFAM will join the National Society in Iquique in order to continue the assessment of needs and to identify possibilities for cooperation in accordance with the plan of action to respond to the disaster which is being drawn up by the Chilean Red Cross.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6DL4HM?OpenDocument (1122 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Chile 2003
		Beaches: Iquique has a privileged climate, combining the best features of the desert and the beach.
		These parks are in their second and third generation, but they have insured that Iquique has converted into the first tourist destination of Chile in just three years.
		These Pre-Colombian figures are made of earth and rock found in the desert zone of Iquique.
	www.internationalreports.net /theamericas/chile/2003/sun.html (187 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Reclassification of Certain Vicuna ...
		In Catamarca Province, the Laguna Blanca Wildlife Reserve was created in 1979 and enlarged in 1982 to 973,270 ha at which time it became recognized by the UNESCO Man and Biosphere program as a natural area of international significance.
		The population of Jujuy Province was estimated to be approximately 18,000 individuals in 1997 (CITES 1997a).
		Wild populations of vicuna in the Province of Jujuy and semi- captive populations of vicuna in the Provinces of Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, La Rioja and San Juan were transferred from CITES Appendix I to Appendix II at CITES COP10, effective September 18, 1997.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/1999/September/Day-08/e23333.htm (13456 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reclassification of Certain Vicu[ntilde]a ...
		The vicu[ntilde]a provinces, which have a great craft tradition, see captive management as an important alternative for obtaining fiber that can later be exported to a country where demand is high, such as the United States.
		Fourth, the faunal legislation of each province assures the protection of the vicu[ntilde]a, and generates special funds in order to achieve the objectives of conserving fauna in general and the vicu[ntilde]a in particular.
		Wild vicu[ntilde]a populations in Jujuy Province, and so-called ``semi-captive populations'' of vicu[ntilde]a in Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, La Rioja and San Juan Provinces were transferred from CITES Appendix I to II at COP10, effective September 18, 1997.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-SPECIES/2002/May/Day-30/e13342.htm (17488 words)

	Iquique Chile - Freaky Iquique
		Duty Free madness, reef breaks, breaking down the latina myth, and othet tales from the town that clings to the Pacific by the skin of its teeth (and a coating of Atacama dust).
		It´s a curious collection of blocky soviet-inspired housing, the occasional imposing western European edifices and a sprinkling of high rise condominiums...cover-ed perpetually in a sticky mixture of fish'smelling salt spray and dust blowing in over the Cordillera de la Costa.
		Iquiqueña girls are NOT often invited to grace the covers of magazines, and (possibly fortunately) do not generally fall down hopelessly besotted at the sight of a White Boy.
	www.globosapiens.net /travel-information/Iquique-1181.html (632 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Chile: Earthquake OCHA Situation Report No. 2
		On 16 June 05, President Ricardo Lagos declared State of Disaster for the communities in the Province of Iquique and the community of Camarones in the province of Arica.
		In Iquique, tankers from the municipality as well as the military are distributing water to the population.
		Two cargo planes from the Chilean Air Force have arrived to Iquique with 36 MT of relief supplies that are being distributed to the affected population with support from the Army.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EGUA-6DFLYS?OpenDocument (540 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)

	Rogue Valley Independent Media Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The northern province of Iquique and the community of Camarones near the province of Arica were the most affected regions by the quake that left 11 dead and 130 injured and destroyed hundreds of houses.
		In the coastal town of Iquique, hundreds of people ran into the streets in fear of collapsing buildings and even a tsunami.
		Iquique, which is 115km (70 miles) from the epicentre, and two other coastal towns, Arica and Antofagasta, appeared to have suffered the worst damage.
	rogueimc.org /en/2005/06/4827.shtml (1452 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » 8 dead after big earthquake shakes northern Chile
		The tremors were reported strongest in Tarapaca province and the neighbouring provinces of Antofagasta and Atacama.
		Five people died on a highway between the cities of Iquique and Alto Hospicio when a boulder was knocked from a cliffside by the quake and crushed the car in which they were driving, according to media reports.
		An elderly man died in the city of Sibaya in Iquique province when his house collapsed.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6DCB6L?OpenDocument (253 words)

	Chile - Army (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		AM 2 (Santiago) includes the capital and the provinces of San Felipe de Aconcagua, Colchagua, and Valparaíso, as well as Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region and Coquimbo Region.
		The Sixth Division, based in Iquique, has a full commando regiment, plus two infantry regiments, one mountain regiment, and two armored cavalry regiments.
		The Seventh Division, based in Coihaique, was raised from brigade status in 1990 and comprises an infantry regiment, a reinforced mountain infantry regiment, a commando company, a horsed cavalry group, a motorcycle reconnaissance squadron, an artillery regiment, an aviation section, an engineer company, and a logistics battalion.
	www.country-data.com /cgi-bin/query/r-2534.html (718 words)

	Memoria y Justicia - Rescatando Memoria - J. Cabezas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		As Comptroller of Iquique, Julio Cabezas undertook an investigation of a flmarket ring in which food products from Iquique were traded in Bolivia, nurturing in form of cocaine traffic to Iquique.
		Upon concluding the investigation, the Supreme Court was informed of the situation.
		This hypothesis is supported by the fact that on the same day Cabezas was shot, two other persons who had also participated in the investigation of the contraband ring, were also executed.
	www.memoriayjusticia.cl /english/en_memory_cabezas.html (557 words)

	Región de Tarapacá Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
		This Saltflat is located in the Province of Iquique at 3.800 mt of altitude in the Chilean Altiplane.
		Pica is a small town located 114 km away from Iquique at 1.325 mt of altitude.
		Iquique has lot of interesting things to see, one of those is the main public square.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/South_America/Chile/Region_de_Tarapaca/Things_To_Do-Region_de_Tarapaca-R-1.html (705 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.
	birdingaltoandino.com /birds.htm (948 words)

	Nuestro.cl /Earthquake 2005
		The best known is that of August the 13th 1868, which literally devastated the city of Iquique.
		For the aymaras, for instance, all religious symbols have a direct relation with health and the abundance of their crops and livestock.
		It was coordinated by Lautaro Núñez and Cecilia García Huidobro, and the work was focused on registering and assessing both the material wealth and the intangible heritage.
	www.nuestro.cl /eng/stories/recovery/earthquake.htm (579 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.
	flagspot.net /flags/bo-a.html (575 words)

	TARAPACA - Online Information article about TARAPACA
		The ports of the province are Pisagua, Iquique and Patillos, from which " nitrate See also:
		PERU (apparently from Biru, a small river on the west coast of Colombia, where Pizarro landed)
		war of 1879—1883, and was organized as a province in 1884.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SUS_TAV/TARAPACA.html (274 words)

	Chile 1985 - Chapter V(a)
		The third and final article provides that the persons arrested shall be subject to the supervision and control of the military garrison of Iquique or of the authority of the Armed or the Police Forces to which they delegate those powers”.
		The arrest of persons who have already been deprived of their liberty was ordered by these decrees and their situation was worsened since the arrest could last as long as the state of siege, the state of emergency that was uninterruptedly in force between September 1973 until March 1978.
		As may be seen from the foregoing account, the right to personal freedom has suffered a sustained deterioration because of the measures adopted by the Government of Chile during the period covered by this report.
	www.cidh.oas.org /countryrep/Chile85eng/chap.5a.htm (4780 words)

	Róbinson Rojas: The murder of Allende and the end of the Chilean way to socialism.- The Róbinson Rojas Archive.- ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Pentagon envoys' line of reasoning was this: U.S. intelligence reports show that Peru is preparing for war with Chile in order to reclaim provinces lost in the nineteenth century.
		Commander in chief, Brigadier General Mario Sepulveda Squella, head of military intelligence, a "reformist," a violent partisan of throwing out civil politicians of any party, but seriously disagreeing with the other "reformist" generals, such as Herman Brady Roche, in the struggle to gain control of the situation, which drew him nearer to General Prats.
		Of these, the Junior Officers' School, the 2nd Armored Regiment, and the Telecommunications School were commanded by "hard-line" colonels; the Paratrooper and Special Forces School by a "reformist" colonel; and the Infantry School, and the Bum, Tacna, and Puente Alto Railwaymen regiments by "constitutionalist" colonels.
	www.rrojasdatabank.org /murder40.htm (5688 words)

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