Tarapacá was a department of Peru. Located in the country's then southernmost coast, it existed as a province from 1837 to 1878, when it was elevated to a department, after which it was occupied by Ch
Tarapacá within Arequipa in 1796.
Tarapacá within Moquegua in 1865.
The Blockade of Iquique in 1879.
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War of the Pacific
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The War of the Pacific, also known by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Chilean claims on coastal Bolivian territory in the
Department of Tarapacá (Peru)
…emerged over the territory of the Atacama Desert and its respective exploitation rights eventually led to war in 1879. The conflict, later known as the War of the Pacific, concluded with a Chilean military victory and the occupation of several areas of Peru and the Bolivian coast. Tarapacá had been occupied since 1879…
Chilean lieutenant Solo Zaldívar and two soldiers burying three Bolivian soldiers after the Battle of Tacna. The elevation behind them is also a burial ground of victims.
Martiniano Urriola, with kepi, the commander of the occupation of Ayacucho in 1883, and Marcos Maturana, with poncho, the general chief of staff chief of the Expeditionary Army during the Lima Campaign; they view the dead bodies of a Peruvian gun crew after the Battle of Chorrillos.
A metallic brass cartridge for a Fusil Gras mle 1874 and a paper cartridge for a Chassepot rifle. The brass cartridge avoided the smoke and ashes of the self-consuming paper cartridge.
Battle of Iquique