Tarapacá, till 1883 the southernmost department of Peru, but annexed by Chili after the war. Area, 19,300 sq. m.; pop. (1891) 47,313. The country contains vast fields of nitrate of soda, as well as silver-mines, deposits of guano, and flocks of sheep, alpacas, &c. Capital, Iquique (q.v.). See W. H. Russell's Visit to Chile (1890).
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