TARAPACá REGION

'I Región de Tarapacá'

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See other Chilean regions
'Capital'	Iquique
'Provinces'	Arica Parinacota Iquique
'Intendant'	Antonella Sciaraffia Estrada
'Area'   - Total	Ranked 6th 59,099.1 km²
'Population'   - 2002 Census   - Density	Ranked 10th 428,594 7.25/km²
'ISO 3166-2'	CL-TA
survey of Tarapaca region, 1851

'Tarapacá' is Chile's northernmost administrative region, hence also known as 'I Región' ("1st Region") in the standard north-to-south numbering of Chilean regions. It borders the Peruvian Tacna Region on the north, Bolivia's La Paz and Oruro departments on the east, the Antofagasta Region on the south and the Pacific Ocean on the west.
Tarapacá is a former Peruvian province, which was annexed by neighbouring Chile under the 1883 Treaty of Ancón at the close of the War of the Pacific.

Contents

Provinces and municipalities

Towns and villages

Climate

Main Rivers

Main economic activities

External links

Provinces and municipalities

=Arica¹

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★ Arica (Provincial capital)

★ Camarones

=Parinacota¹

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★ Putre (Provincial capital)

★ General Lagos

=Iquique²

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★ Iquique (Regional and provincial capital)

★ Alto Hospicio

=Tamarugal²

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★ Pozo Almonte (Provincial capital)

★ Huara

★ Camiña

★ Colchane

★ Pica
# Formed to Region XV by legislation in 2007, to be functional in october 2007
# Created by legislation in 2007, to be functional in october 2007

Towns and villages

★ Iquique

★ Arica

★ Isluga

★ Pica

★ Mamiña

★ Pisagua

★ Alto Hospicio

★ Huara

★ Pozo Almonte

Climate

Mostly desert like, with the following variations:

★ Coastal desert with fog and little temperature variation during the day.

★ Normal Desert

★ Marginal desert of highlands.

Main Rivers

★ Ríos Caquena

★ Lauca River

★ Isluga River

★ Cariquima

★ Concosa (Altiplano)

★ Lluta River

Main economic activities

★ Fishing

★ Tourism

★ Mining

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★ Cerro Colorado

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★ Collahuasi

External links

★ Gobierno Regional de Tarapacá Official website (in Spanish)

★ Information about Tarapaca (in Spanish)